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The Chemistry of Dating

Why him? Why her? provides a new way to understand relationships, whether you’re searching for one or eager to strengthen the one you have.

Play Mates, Help Mates, Mind Mates, Soul Mates

How does our basic biological nature color our search for ‘him’ or ‘her’? How does each type woo? And what kind of love is each type looking for in a mate?

The ancient Greeks had more than ten words to distinguish different type of love. Sociologist John Alan Lee reduced these overlapping categories to six....

What is a Calorie?

In Good Calories, Bad Calories, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong.

We hear about calories all the time: How many calories are in this cookie? How many are burned by doing 100 jumping jacks, or long-distance running, or fidgeting? But what is a calorie, really? And how many of them do we actually need?

Emma Bryce explains how a few different factors should go into determining the recommended amount f...

Making Time For You

In The Fringe Hours, Jessica Turner empowers women to take back pockets of time they already have in their day in order to practice self-care and do the things they love.

The Fringe Hours Manifesto:

We believe that we need to make time for ourselves.

We believe in cultivating balance in our commitments and within ourselves.

We believe in letting go of self-imposed pressures.

We believe that guilt and comparison do not belong in our lives.

We believe that taking care of our minds, bodies, an...

How Can We Picture the Fourth Dimension?

Left-right, up-down, back-forth: These are the dimensional directions we’re able to perceive. Theoretical physics posits that additional dimensions could exist beyond our perceptive reach.

In this video, string theorist and World Science Festival chairman Brian Greene, author of The Hidden Reality, dives head-first into the search for extra dimensions.

The possibility of extra dimensions

The possibility of dimensions of space beyond the three that we know about is an idea that —it cropped u...

Is It Wrong To Lie?

In Lying, best-selling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.

What is a lie?

Deception can take many forms, but not all acts of deception are lies.

Even the most ethical among us regularly struggle to keep appearances and reality apart. When asked ‘How are you?’ most of us reflexively say that we are well, understanding the question to be merely a greeting, rat...

How Millennials Are Changing The Workplace

As they come into their own professionally, millennials are shifting corporate culture and the way companies are organized. In this video, Jamie Notter, co-author of When Millennials Take Over digs deeply into common millennial values and how they’re changing the ways top companies compete for premium talent.

Unlike previous generations, millennials aren’t satisfied with years of “paying their dues” in positions of low responsibility. They want autonomy, transparency, and a sense of missi...

Discovering Your Natural Capacity for Love, Integrity, and Compassion

In Coming Home to Who You Are, David Richo teaches us that we already possesseverything we need to have satisfying relationships and a happy, fulfilling life; all we need to do is learn how to bring forth our natural wisdom—which includes our innate kindness, understanding, and courage.

Grounded, not swayed. Our opportunity to practice integrity and love

Psychological health includes going with the flow of life events without being destabilized by them. This happens when we can go through a...

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Quote of the day

The decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked.
Three different sets of forces influence our decisions in ways we commonly fail to anticipate:

Forces from within ourselves. Forces from our relationships with others, Forces from the outside world.

~FRANCESCA GINO, author ofSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can S...

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WRITING

Losing the Word Weight — How to Put Your Manuscript on a Diet, Writer Unboxed| Tweet

Somewhere on my writing journey, I’d read that when you think you’ve finished, cut 10 percent of your manuscript to make it sing.

The Man With The Golden Pen — 5 Writing Secrets From Ian Fleming, Writers Write| Tweet

Here are five lessons we can all learn from the master of the spy thriller.

The Single Best Way to FINISH YourNovel, Kristen Lamb’s Blog| Tweet

Candace Havens teaches a meth...

How to Free Your Brain: Time-Management Tips from a Neuroscientist

According to neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, author of The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload,the key to effective time management is to maintain a level of organization that allows you to dedicate less and less neural resources to running your life. This means making good use of a calendar and developing routines. It also means having the courage not to overschedule yourself.

Know your limits.

Assess your priorities.

Embrace a system.

Use a calendar

My t...