I’ve been meaning to do more yoga. I enjoyed the beginner lessons I took but didn’t stick with it. After seeing this Kickstarter project, though, I’m really thinking about getting back into it.
One reason I never stuck with it was the cost. The other reason was the not-so-portable mat I borrowed. This could be a good way to get into it without increasing the weight of my already heavy bag. Plus it’s recyclable.
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I already mentioned my love of the Superman character. It’s a complicated reason why but Rands has a good summary of why he does.
Superman is a story. It’s a great story. It’s an unrealistic story full of fantastic elements that appeal to our desire to be intensely good humans, to perform amazing feats of strength, and to live forever. These stories, while unrealistic, give us direction, they temporarily relieve our burdens, and they give us an ambitious plan forward.
Like Superman says in the upcoming movie, Man of Steel, “The ‘S’ is for hope.”
Studies show Tylenol can affect our mental pain as well as our physical.
Daniel Randles and colleagues at the University of British Columbia write in the journal Psychological Science, "The meaning-maintenance model posits that any violation of expectations leads to an affective experience that motivates compensatory affirmation. We explore whether the neural mechanism that responds to meaning threats can be inhibited by acetaminophen." Totally.
More plainly, "Physical pain and social rejection share a neural process and subjective component that are experienced as distress." That neural process has been traced to the same part of the brain. They figure that if you blunt one, you blunt both. As they told LiveScience, "When people feel overwhelmed with uncertainty in life or distressed by a lack of purpose, what they’re feeling may actually be painful distress … We think that Tylenol is blocking existential unease in the same way it prevents pain, because a similar neurological process is responsible for both types of distress."
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Scott Granneman is a hero. Not in the risk your life to save a baby from a burning building type (though he may do that, too). But a hero of productivity and proper use of the curly apostrophe in contractions.
He created a list of over 130 contractions that converts the dumb apostrophe with the smart apostrophe. Download it here.
The process of making a Transformer is more than meets the eye (sorry, couldn’t resist). But Gizmodo takes a look at how the designs are turned into the toys that power the franchise.
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