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Video: Brain Hacks To Help You Learn New Things Faster & Study Better, With ASAPScience

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: Brain Hacks To Help You Learn New Things Faster & Study Better, With ASAPScience


[Keanu voice] Whoooaa…I Know Kung-Fu!:
At one time in our lives, we’ve all wanted or needed to learn something new.

Whether it was a requirement or just the pursuit of a great hobby, sometimes it can seem to go a bit too slow as our brains readjust.

And though geniuses like Carol Dweck and Elizabeth Gould would tell you that is the time you are actually re-making your brain & getting smarter,

We all need a little shortcut to get to the fun part sooner.

And so in this video, ASAP does their part to add something to mega-lists like the one by OEDB…

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Bonkers Face & Beauty Hacking Devices Return, Thanks To Crazy Asia! [2 Kinda NSFW]

Filed Under: Aging, Stupid Health Tricks

Bonkers Face & Beauty Hacking Devices Return, Thanks To Crazy Asia! [2 Kinda NSFW]
dr macks curves of youth 1890s facelift device


What’s Old Is New Again!:
When we look back at the oldest editions of Popular Mechanics, Good Housekeeping, Life Magazine etc.,

The back pages are chockablock with all kinds of hilarious contraptions to reshape, maintain, & massage women’s faces and figures.

And while we make fun of them now, we’re still not past all of that yet.

-Maybe we never will be in our quest for perfection.

Well today, Crazy Japan & Crazy Asia bring you their newest face & beauty tools in the images below!…

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Office Fatigue: 27 Reasons Why Just Sitting At Your Desk All Day Wipes You Out. -And 18 Solutions To Fix That.

Filed Under: Disease, Mind/Brain

Office Fatigue: 27 Reasons Why Just Sitting At Your Desk All Day Wipes You Out. -And 18 Solutions To Fix That.
guy in khakis and blue oxford knocked to floor by boxes and office work


Stressing Without Moving:
From time to time everyone gets fatigued at work, no matter what they do.

You don’t have to be out toiling in the fields or welding skyscrapers together.

And especially for people who sit at desks, the reasons can seem a little mysterious at times.

Well, HealthTrekker is here to the rescue! Here is a short list of many things that could be affecting you with mystery-fatigue, followed by a few solutions.

-Even if your job involves few things more physical than just sitting at a desk…

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Sick Building Syndrome 2.0, The Office Microbiome Is A New Take On How You Get Sick At Work

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease

Sick Building Syndrome 2.0, The Office Microbiome Is A New Take On How You Get Sick At Work
edna mode from the incredibles stands in front of Lever House in NYC


Perhaps Not Modern Enough:
So back in 1952, Edna Mode’s favorite architect, Mies Van Der Rohe got beaten to the New York punch by the era-defining Lever House glass-box skyscraper.

The minimalist giant-steel-ice-cube International style went gangbusters and was copied just about everywhere.

Then a few decades later, we all inherited an accidental invention from these sealed curiosities: Sick Building Syndrome.

But today with the advent of the Human Microbiome, safety experts are finding something even more sinister: The Office Micro-Biome…

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Forest Bathing: The Road To Wellville Less Traveled. A Pre-19th-Century Practice Revived In 80s Japan That Improves Your Health. -All With Just A Calm Stroll.

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Exercise, Mind/Brain

Forest Bathing: The Road To Wellville Less Traveled. A Pre-19th-Century Practice Revived In 80s Japan That Improves Your Health. -All With Just A Calm Stroll.
mohonk mountain house postcard lake view of house 1940s


1880s or 1980s, Good Ideas Never Get Old:
In our technologically-advanced time, we have a bad-tendency toward disqualifying thoughts & theories that have come before us.

-Especially in the Sciences, old traditions that don’t have a big corporation behind them are looked at as Hokum, Superstition, & Snake-Oil.

But are they really?

Well recently, the scientists of (data) !Crazy Japan! came together and found actual scientific proof for a practice that saw it’s heyday back at the end of the 1800s.

-Getting outside and groping communing-with nature;…

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Dr. Jack Gilbert Gives Us More Reasons Dirt Is Good. This Time, For Kids!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Family, Nutrition

Dr. Jack Gilbert Gives Us More Reasons Dirt Is Good. This Time, For Kids!
dirty kid playing with sticks in forest


The Joys of Cross-Contamination:
So as children go back to school, one of the joys that comes with the territory is sickness.

Schools, ball-pits, & daycare-centers are like stock-exchanges for millions of short little typhoid-marys, infecting eachother with God knows what.

And as other scientists from Duke and IC-L have mystifyingly said before,

That may actually not be such a bad thing…

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Video: I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found. The Best & Healthiest Reason For Travel Or Vacation

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found. The Best & Healthiest Reason For Travel Or Vacation


Zen And The Art Of Metaphysical Maintenance:
So we’ve talked before about the actual, real health benefits of Happiness.

Recently, it’s been shown that people who take regular vacations actually live longer, happier, and healthier lives.

And in one post, we mentioned some of the specific ways you improve the “effectiveness” of a vacation.

But here, The School Of Life raises the surprising, yet philosophical idea of specific types of vacations as a kind-of symbolic “food”,

Or better yet: Nutrition For The Soul…

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Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future

Filed Under: Aging, Exercise, Mind/Brain

Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future
golden heart in garden with sunshine and painted bird


The Best Time To Plant A Tree…:
So we hear a lot about the benefits of exercise & nutrition.

And though people are slowly finding that nutrition is actually the weight-loss king,

Exercise all by itself turns out to be the king of many other things.

But we never really seem to learn about When we should do it.

So for this reason, researchers got together and found out another really interesting thing about its many undiscovered benefits…

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Miraculous Halo Top Ice Cream Has Only 60 Calories A Serving. But Is It Really “Healthy” For You? 6 Main Concerns

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Miraculous Halo Top Ice Cream Has Only 60 Calories A Serving. But Is It Really “Healthy” For You? 6 Main Concerns
chocolate and vanilla ice cream cones in pint containers by Halo Top


David Slays Goliath. -With Superior Nutrition?:
So according to their own press-release, a big change happened back in July. Halo Top became the highest-selling ice cream in the country.

Which is a pretty amazing feat at only 5 years in business for Halo.

And the biggest factor in its success is the product is ASTOUNDINGLY low on calories.

So then the big question becomes, despite being in the Frozen Desert Category which is chockablock with brain-killers,

Does this mean you can actually call Halo Top “Healthy”?…

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Video: Don’t Keep Up With The Joneses. Forget Comparison And Become Happy & Healthy, Starting With Your Vacation

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: Don’t Keep Up With The Joneses. Forget Comparison And Become Happy & Healthy, Starting With Your Vacation


Make Your Mind & Body Healthy With A Bigger “Weekend”:
So we’ve been told at least once or twice, that Happiness equals Healthiness.

And in much the same way that our bodies need good Sleep for good health,

There is new work that shows we need a type of rest you just don’t get on the Weekends.

Believe it or not, our bodies actually do need Vacations.

And on that note, The Science Of Us pulled a lot together to help us with our Summers, so we can get maximum enjoyment as we also recharge for better health…

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