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You Are The Captain Of Your Soul. Grit & Autonomy Solve The Biggest Puzzle Ever And Pleasure Only Kills You

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

You Are The Captain Of Your Soul. Grit & Autonomy Solve The Biggest Puzzle Ever And Pleasure Only Kills You
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A “Kid In A Candy Shop” Eventually Gets Existential Diabetes:

The problem with junk food is that it can look pretty attractive and get pretty addictive.

You have a little bit just for fun, and next thing you know you’re obese and hating yourself.

Leading a life that way with your actions can turn out just the same.

So then if The Pleasure Principle is supposed to rule everything that’s alive and aware,

Why does the “feel good right now” series of life-choices turn that into a contradiction?

An SFU research team set-out to find out why and where it ultimately leads…

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Dazed & Confused No More! Air Filters Quietly Save Your Brainpower, One Invisible Little Particle At-A-Time

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Dazed & Confused No More! Air Filters Quietly Save Your Brainpower, One Invisible Little Particle At-A-Time
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The Desolation Of Smog. What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You:

So one of the main concerns we’ve expressed here fits a theme called, “Stealth Health”.

Microplastics is one example. Both everywhere and easy to overlook

That’s the problem with Stealth Health. It’s the easiest thing in the world to miss.

To that end, there’s a joke about the type of things we take for-granted.

Two goldfish are in a bowl. One goldfish looks over and says to the other, “Man, I love the water in this bowl! It’s just great here!”

The second goldfish says, “THERE’S WATER IN THIS BOWL!???”

Interestingly enough, a guy named Pellegrino decided to find out what’s wrong not with your water, but your air…

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Coffee Vs. Dementia: Can A Few Cups/Day Prevent Brain Rot? Read This Before Freebasing That RedBull!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Coffee Vs. Dementia: Can A Few Cups/Day Prevent Brain Rot? Read This Before Freebasing That RedBull!
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Does The Accidental Awesome Of Ancient Biochem Work On Brains?:

Every once in awhile, you can run into a happy accident.

Some things people do might seem random, senseless, or just following a crowd.

But what if there’s actually a good reason; a method to the madness?

There just might be when it comes to some of the food & drink we have.

-Especially the stuff with the weird histories.

And Harvard, Mass General, and MIT teams set-out to find if there was any method behind the world’s most popular drink that is not spelled, “alcohol”…

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Old Dog? New Tricks. Are You Too Old To Learn And Change, If You Can Conquer Fear Of The Unknown?

Filed Under: Aging

Old Dog? New Tricks. Are You Too Old To Learn And Change, If You Can Conquer Fear Of The Unknown?
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Are Old Sayings About Aging Minds The Truth, Or Just Lazy Myths?:

In 2007, Mark Zuckerberg famously said that young people are just smarter than older people.

Not only was he wrong about experience, depth, & pattern recognition; but he also kinda “forgot” The Bell Curve.

But that’s okay. Because SV tech-bro strivers drank the Kool-Aid anyway.

And not to lend even a mote of credence to a guy like Zuck,

But “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” has been a saying forever.

So is it true? Do older people just get hidebound & turn into “Old Fools”?

Or is that take just a lazy smear-campaign of a situation that can actually be improved?

A team of German researchers decided to find out…

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The Accidental Awesome Of Hidden Learning Creates Brain Training Game That Actually Fights Dementia!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Accidental Awesome Of Hidden Learning Creates Brain Training Game That Actually Fights Dementia!
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Persistence FINALLY Breaks “The Lumosity Curse”. -With Actual Data!:

Ok, so everyone who was ever forced to take music lessons, spit out your retainer and go kiss your parents.

Not only might they have conferred some of Zamfir’s magic of the pan flute upon you.

But they might have just saved your very mind back in middle-school!

And there might also be a certain argument for their video-game generosity, too.

Because not only have some of those games proved helpful for different types of cognitive-boost,

A JHU team just found one very important exception to “The Lumosity Letdown”…

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Left Turn: When The Preservatives In Food Aren’t The Contamination. But The Article On Them Actually Is

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Left Turn: When The Preservatives In Food Aren’t The Contamination. But The Article On Them Actually Is
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What Happens When The Magic In The Study Is Hidden By Darker Arts?:

So people in the know here will not be surprised by this. But, short story:

Through some odd coincidence one summer, I got reactive-arthritis.

Probably the result of buying lox or prosciutto at the deli counter.

When I found out how this works and how you can’t avoid it, I was stunned to think, “But I thought if they sold it in the store, it was safe!”

We all make that assumption. On the shelf == someone vetted this! Right? -Every time we step into a store or supermarket.

Where we promptly dismiss oldey-timey nutrition wisdom. But sometimes the things grandma might say turn out to be the smartest.

And there’s a French team with 100,000+ subjects and years of data who would suggest that too; until…

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Don’t Go Too Hard At The X-Games, Bro. Because That Energy Drink Could Actually Shorten Your Lifespan

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Don’t Go Too Hard At The X-Games, Bro. Because That Energy Drink Could Actually Shorten Your Lifespan
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It -Is- Possible To Go Too Extreme, Especially With Liquid Supplements:

Sometimes without knowing it, we can live in a world of unintended-consequences.

Even something as silly as the lame chemistry class jokes about how little water it takes to kill you try to hint at it.

Some of those problems can hide right inside the food we eat, the beverages we drink,

Or the things we think are safe because they sell them in a store.

Well watch out, extreme sports fans, neuro-hackers, and coffee-achieving gym-bros!

Because a team from UGA & Hong Kong is finding out that if you try to burn too hot, there might be consequences…

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The Chemicals Between Us. How Some Of Your Favorite Fatty Foods Are Killing You, Starting With Your Brain

Filed Under: Nutrition

The Chemicals Between Us. How Some Of Your Favorite Fatty Foods Are Killing You, Starting With Your Brain
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Evolutionary Drives Amok. Too Much Of A Good Thing Can Be Deadly:

The modern marvel of mass production is a funny thing.

Henry Ford and Samuel Colt basically created the entire middle-class of the world, starting with the US.

But that manufacturing miracle also started killing us, because survival can sometimes get weird.

It’s almost the same reason why it’s easy to get fat. Because we’re engineered to survive a famine.

And part of that engineering involved eating some things that we now get way too much of,

But a Japanese University thinks they might just be able to save us from ourselves…

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