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Well
Thinking on Your Feet
Standing desks are good for our bodies, but are they good for our minds?It is not yet known.
"Gaesser
says that “the physical and mental arousal” that occurs when people end
their seated stillness and stroll, pedal or stand up improves
attention, memory and other cognitive skills. He also speculates that
because the volunteers had never before cycled at work, the novelty of
that activity amplified its stimulative effects and impact on thinking.
But
given that the study was small and limited in duration — it can’t tell
us whether, over a longer period of time, an under-desk pedal machine
would remain more potent for brainpower than strolling or standing —
Gaesser suggests popping upright for even a minute or two.
It will most
likely be good for our minds, and shouldn’t do too much harm to our
typing."
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Well
‘Fat but Fit’? The Controversy Continues
Even when overweight people are healthy, they are still more likely to develop heart disease than their peers who aren’t overweight, a new study reports.Short answer: no.
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Well
Underweight Women at Risk of Early Menopause
Early menopause is associated with several health conditions, including osteoporosis, depression, dementia, heart disease and early death.Anorexia kills.
Not just by direct starvation.
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Magazine
When You’re the Bad Guest
I was too miserable to be polite, even to my hosts.Confessions of a social pariah.
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Style
Driving Cross-Country Without — Gasp! — Checking Your Phone
And: sharing (or not) the story of a stillbirth; a co-worker who criticizes your banter with the boss; resisting a dating temptation.I want to know. I don't mind telling.
I don't need to know.
Messages don't work because they have not been useful for me.
email works when I look.
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Well
Outsmarting Our Primitive Responses to Fear
The fight, flight or freeze response served us well when we were cave dwellers, but it can get in our way in modern life."“Change has occurred so rapidly for our species that now we are equipped with brains that are super sensitive to threat but also super capable of planning, thinking, forecasting and looking ahead,” said Ahmad Hariri, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University. “So we essentially drive ourselves nuts worrying about things because we have too much time and don’t have many real threats on our survival, so fear gets expressed in these really strange, maladaptive ways.”"
"Just as fear can be contagious, so can courage, caring and calm."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/us/las-vegas-shooting-civilian-first-aid.html
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N.Y. / Region
It Wasn’t an Oversight. I Meant to Ignore You.
The maddening thing about slights is that they can be so slight, it’s hard to know.I have been socially clumsy.
I am trying to learn.
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Food
Tastes That Are Distinctly Bangladeshi in Queens
At Boishakhi in Astoria, a steam table is laden with cuisine that evokes the Bay of Bengal.As convenient.
"They are adsorbing our culture"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Draco_Tavern
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U.S.
Vegas Gunman’s Brain Will Be Scrutinized for Clues to the Killing
A Stanford neuropathologist will be looking for physical abnormalities in Stephen Paddock’s brain, although the examination is unlikely to answer the mystery of the mass killing.Desperate measures.
Phrenology does not work.
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Arts
Internetting with Amanda Hess
Everything that’s weird, wrong and totally sad about internet culture in five episodes. Starts Tuesday.https://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=+Internetting+With+Amanda+Hess.+&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=
Next week.
Remind me on Tuesday.
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