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A Brief Lesson On Physics: Understanding Einstein’s Masterpiece

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics is a book about the joy of discovery. C[image error]arlo Rovelli brings a playful, entertaining, and mind-bending introduction to modern physics, offering surprising—and surprisingly easy to grasp—explanations of Einstein’s general relativity, quantum mechanics, elementary particles, gravity, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, and the role humans play in this weird and wonderful world.

‘WASTING’ TIME [image error]

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aim...

The Pleasure Of Kissing

When did humans begin to kiss? Why is kissing integral to some cultu [image error] res and alien to others? Do good kissers make the best lovers? And is that expensive lip-plumping gloss worth it? Sheril Kirshenbaum, a biologist and science journalist, tackles these questions and more in The Science of Kissing. We know that kissing is pleasurable but the reasons why are a little mysterious; it may have a lot to do with feeling accepted. Watch the The School of Life video.

Mutual desire is normally signa...

Your Success In Life Depends On The Person You Become

Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but man[image error]y successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline. No Excuses! shows you how you can achieve success in all three major areas of your life, including your personal goals, business and money goals, and overall happiness.[image error]

THE COMMON DENOMINATOR OF SUCCESS

Herbert Grey, a businessman, conducted a long-term study searching for what he called ‘the common denominator of success.’ Af...

LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Be Split Open

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Book That Plane Ticket: How Experiencing Your Setting First-Hand Can Enhance Your Writing | WRITER UNBOXED

[image error] [image error] What started as a genealogical research trip led not only to the discovery of my soul’s home, but also to my first glimpse of the world through my character’s eyes. Such insight could never have been achieved by looking at photographs.

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A Con Artist Sold the Eiffel Tower Twice — by Listening, Not Selling

We tend to think con artists are smooth talkers and persuasive selle[image error]rs, but listening is their most essential quality, says Maria Konnikova, who has written a new book on con artistry. Here she discusses the case of Victor Lustig, a Frenchman who sold the Eiffel Tower twice for scrap metal to two different buyers. Too embarrassed at being taken in, the buyers never reported Lustig.

As Konnikova explains, Lustig literally wrote the book the con artistry. Inhis work 10 Commandments of the Con...

Grow Your Life Savings: Eat

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Mindbodygreen founder Jason Wachob, redefines successful living and offers readers a new life currency to build on, one that is steeped in wellbeing…Wellth.

WEALTH

(noun) Derived from the Middle English, welthe: meaning well-being and happiness

: a large amount of money and possessions.

WELLTH

(noun) A new and more valuable life currency

: a life exemplified by abundance, happiness, purpose, health, and joy.

EAT

One of the first and most elemental aspects of accruing wellth comes from how...

Would You Choose A Life Of Limitless Pleasure (With No Pain)?

In The Pleasure Trap, the authors offer unique insights into the factors t[image error]hat make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses, and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality.

Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life. The only catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind. Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald explore Robert Nozick...

Would You Choose A Life Of Limitless Pleaure (With No Pain)?

In The Pleasure Trap, the authors offer unique insights into the factors t[image error]hat make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses, and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality.

Imagine if you could plug your brain into a machine that would bring you ultimate pleasure for the rest of your life. The only catch? You have to permanently leave reality behind. Hayley Levitt and Bethany Rickwald explore Robert Nozick...

The Courage To Meet The Demands Of Reality

Integrity. It is more than simple honesty. It’s the key to success. A per[image error]son with integrity has the — often rare — ability to pull everything together, to make it all happen no matter how challenging the circumstances.

WHY INTEGRITY MATTERS

What is character? How does it affect performance? How important is it? [image error]

Most of the time, when we think of the word integrity, or character, we think of morals or ethics, not performance. We associate the topic with the catastrophes like Enron, Andersen,...

Learning Basic Improv Technique Will Improve Your Whole Life

It’s easy to treat performative disciplines like improvisational theatre as s[image error]omething people do outside their routine activities — meetings at work, talks with friends and family, romantic encounters, etc. But New York City improv coach Chris Gethard says that grasping some basic improv skills will improve your performance in all areas of life. That’s because the principles of improve are fundamental: slow down, listen, have integrity, and be positive.[image error]

In comedy and in life, there’s a tempta...