The National Sleep Research Project - 40 amazing facts about sleep -The record for the longest period without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes during a rocking chair marathon. The record holder reported hallucinations, paranoia, blurred vision, slurred speech and memory and concentration lapses. - It's impossible to tell if someone is really awake without close medical supervision. - Anything less than five minutes to fall asleep at night means you're sleep deprived. - A new baby typically results in 400-750 hours lost sleep for parents in the first year - One of the best predictors of insomnia later in life is the development of bad habits from having sleep disturbed by young children. - The continuous brain recordings that led to the discovery of REM (rapid eye-movement) sleep were not done until 1953, partly because the scientists involved were concerned about wasting paper. - REM sleep occurs in bursts totalling about 2 hours a night, usually beginning about 90 minutes after falling asleep. - REM sleep may help developing brains mature.
100 Documentaries To Expand Your Consciousness Free your mind & expand your awareness. Here is a list of over 100 documentaries you can watch for free online. They are about Science, Consciousness, ETs, you name it. “If you find a video wrongly linked please let us know and we will find another to replace it. 1. This list will never be complete!
Psychology of Color [Infographic] Perhaps no choice is as vital to marketing as color. Whether you are selecting the color for a product or for your email marketing campaign, color has tremendous impact on all of us. Subconsciously, we associate different colors with different things. This infographic examines the psychology of color and looks at some common associations of different colors. It shows the overall importance of color to consumers and characteristics of many individual colors, and it also helps show the connection between graphic design and psychology. While color can be appealing to us visually, a lot more is going on behind the scenes than just an aesthetic. Embed This Graphic On Your Site <img src=” alt=”Psychology of Color Infographic” />Infographic by <a title=”WebpageFX” href=” Embed the Psychology of Color Infographic The psychology of color directly plays into consumer behavior.
How to Memorize - Learn to memorize and increase memory If you are visiting from StumbleUpon and like this article and tool, please consider giving it a thumbs up. Thanks! Memorizing does not have to be as hard as most people make it. In this article we are going to focus on a technique that will let you easily: Memorize a speechMemorize the BibleMemorize linesMemorize Scripture At the end of this article is a Javascript tool that makes it easy to implement this method. Synapses and Neurons and How to Memorize In the simplified model of the brain in this discussion, we’ll be looking at neurons and synapses. When you remember something neurons fire signals down particular synapse pathways to other neurons which in turn fire signals to other neurons. Strong Pathways Synapses appear to exhibit plasticity. For example, consider remembering your home telephone number. Now consider a number that you will have trouble remembering. How to Memorize – Practice Recalling not Repeating This is the crucial concept of any type of memorization.
Clonezilla - About How to Learn Speed Reading: 21 steps Steps Part 1 Learning to Speed Read <img alt="Image titled Learn Speed Reading Step 1" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn" onload="WH.performance.clearMarks('image1_rendered'); WH.performance.mark('image1_rendered');">1Stop talking to yourself. Almost every reader "subvocalizes," or moves their throat as they imagine speaking the words.[1] This may help the reader remember concepts, but it's also a major barrier to speed.[2][3] Here are a few ways to keep this habit to a minimum: Chew gum or hum while you read. Part 2 Skimming Text <img alt="Image titled Learn Speed Reading Step 7" src=" width="728" height="546" class="whcdn">1Know when to skim. Part 3 Timing Your Reading Speed Community Q&A Ask a Question Tips
WebGL Water Loading... Made by Evan Wallace This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers. If you can't run the demo, you can still see it on YouTube. Interactions: Draw on the water to make ripples Drag the background to rotate the camera Press SPACEBAR to pause and unpause Drag the sphere to move it around Press the L key to set the light direction Press the G key to toggle gravity Features: Raytraced reflections and refractions Analytic ambient occlusion Heightfield water simulation * Soft shadows Caustics (see this for details) ** * requires the OES_texture_float extension** requires the OES_standard_derivatives extension Tile texture from zooboing on Flickr
Sexy Scents That Are Proven To Seduce Have you ever caught a whiff of someone's scent and suddenly thought that they were looking mighty fine? You're not alone: The link between seduction and smell is as old as civilization itself. According to the story of Cleopatra, not one but two great leaders of the ancient Roman Empire fell under her spell after smelling her perfumed concoctions. So what is it about fragrances that can bring even warlords to their knees? Read More Psychologists believe that the area of the brain that processes scent is also the part that processes emotions — and certain odors can make us feel stimulated, aroused, and excited. The link between musk and sex is pretty straight forward: Musks replicate the odor secreted from male deer sex glands. Above, from left: The Body Shop White Musk Eau De Parfum, $24; Lancôme Trésor Midnight Rose, $44; Escada Especially Escada, $46. MORE FROM REFINERY 29: Workouts for People with Desk Jobs MORE FROM REFINERY 29: Yoga Tips According to Dr.
A SOCIOLOGICAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: SOCIAL FACTORSSHAPING PERCEPTION AND DECISION-MAKING Elsewhere we examined several great tensions shaping the human condition: the role of nature versus nurture in shaping humans' social fates and the tensions between the needs of individuals' and the needs of their social systems. The relative importance of these tensions--and relative potency of one force versus the other--has produced great divides in social psychological theories. Another issue generating a major schism involves the workings of the human psyche, whether individuals' decision-makings are more-or-less rational (or, perhaps are determined by some universally uniform neural brain design) or whether they are shaped by uncontrollable sociocultural (external) or emotional (internal) forces. Here, the intent is to stress the socio-cultural component of consciousness and thought. The idea that "true" reality is never truly graspable by humans' sensory and cognitive equipment goes back at least to the works of Plato. Consider the social construction of sensory distinctions.
A.2. Démarrer l'installateur Des informations sur les images sur cédérom se trouvent sur la page de l'installateur Debian. L'équipe debian-cd fournit des images sur cédérom contenant l'installateur sur la page Debian CD. Pour savoir où trouver des cédéroms, lisez Section 4.1, « Cédéroms Debian GNU/Linux officiels ». Certaines méthodes d'installation demandent des images différentes des images sur cédérom. Les sections suivantes donnent des précisions sur les images nécessaires pour chaque type d'installation. Pour installer squeeze avec l'installateur, il existe deux sortes d'image, appelées images « netinst ». Téléchargez l'image que vous préférez et gravez-la sur un cédérom. On peut aussi amorcer à partir d'un support USB amovible. Pour préparer la clé USB, la méthode la plus simple est de télécharger le fichier hd-media/boot.img.gz, et d'extraire avec gunzip l'image de 256 Mo. Certains BIOS peuvent lancer directement des périphériques USB, d'autres non. A.2.3. A.2.4.
How To Play Go - Introduction Go is perhaps the oldest board game in the world. The rules are very simple, and you can learn them in a few minutes - but they lead to a countless number of intriguing patterns and clever maneuvers. The following pages describe how the game is played and scored. Learning to play is easy, but learning to play well requires much study and practice. The best way to learn, especially at the beginning, is simply to play games and become familiar with the patterns. For much of the world, Go is more than just an amusing pastime. A Bite of Buddhism The four sublime mental states are qualities of mind that we cultivate in order to alleviate the suffering we experience in everyday life and to feel more connected to others—and the worries and fears we all share. In the language of the Buddha (Pali), they are called the brahma viharas , which means "the dwelling place of awakened beings." The good news for us unawakened beings is that it's easy to begin cultivating the brahma viharas . Indeed, they are an integral part of other religious, spiritual, and humanistic traditions. I present them here with a distinctly Buddhist "flavor." Metta . I like to think of metta as the simple act of well-wishing. Sylvia once said that she practices metta by just looking at a person and silently saying, "I love you." Karuna . The Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, helped me learn to cultivate compassion for myself. Mudita . Just as metta is an antidote for our judgmental tendencies, mudita is the perfect antidote for envy. Upekkha .
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