You need to learn a practical lesson. Grit alone is not going to save you from sinking.

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Submitted on December 2nd 2016 by sashinator with 1 comments

One night while watching TV, Chris Kunkel decided to kill himself. “Out of nowhere, it just came over me,” Kunkel told me over the phone. He found a bottle of Tylenol PM in the medicine cabinet, swallowed the contents, and put himself to bed. Kunkel was home alone; his wife and two kids were out of town visiting family, but he was on call for work as an army IT specialist and had to stay behind.

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Submitted on December 4th 2016 by belangermira

The exact cause of Parkinson’s disease isn’t known. Genetics and environment are possible factors, but now researchers say gut bacteria could contribute to the nervous system disorder. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) published a report today in the journal Cell detailing their discovery of a link between intestinal bacteria and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Changes in bacteria, or the bacteria themselves, contribute to — and may even cause — motor skill decline, the scientists concluded.

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Submitted on December 2nd 2016 by Apolatia

Have you found yourself checking email at dinner, or skipping from book to screen, unable to focus? The closer the world gets to our fingertips, the more we stand to lose.

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Submitted on December 4th 2016 by gladsdotter with 2 comments

People on the spectrum—and their families—can be more easily swayed in their responses to treatments than previously thought. 

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Submitted on December 3rd 2016 by gladsdotter

Only a small subset of readers ever comment. What compels them to take the time to weigh in? To learn more about the reasons that people comment, Christie Aschwanden collected data from two sources — an analysis of the comments here at FiveThirtyEight and a survey of more than 8,500 people. What she learned shifted her views about commenters and offered some interesting insights into the hive mind.

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Submitted on November 29th 2016 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

Psychologists have failed to replicate a famous study suggesting that short fiction improves readers’ abilities to read the emotional states of others.

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Submitted on December 2nd 2016 by gladsdotter

There’s no such thing as ‘detoxing’. In medical terms, it’s a nonsense. Diet and exercise is the only way to get healthy. But which of the latest fad regimes can really make a difference? We look at the facts

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Submitted on December 5th 2016 by Gozzin

Glitzy gadgets begin to lose their appeal

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Submitted on November 29th 2016 by Maternitus

This is the safest time in human history. So why are we all so afraid? By Neil Strauss. (Oct. 6, 2016) [Autoplay video]

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Submitted on December 3rd 2016 by AdelleChattre

A single dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient of magic mushrooms, can lift the anxiety and depression experienced by people with advanced cancer for six months or even longer, two new studies show. Researchers involved in the two trials in the United States say the results are remarkable. The volunteers had “profoundly meaningful and spiritual experiences” which made most of them rethink life and death, ended their despair and brought about lasting improvement in the quality of their lives.

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Submitted on December 1st 2016 by aj0690

For $US20, a group of high school students has created 3.7 grams of an active ingredient used in the medicine Daraprim, which would sell in the United States for between $US35,000 and $US110,000. Pyrimethamine, the active ingredient in Daraprim, treats a parasitic infection in people with weak immune systems such as pregnant women and HIV patients.

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Submitted on December 1st 2016 by hxxp

A landmark pair of studies shows that giving people with depression and anxiety magic mushrooms made them better for months. By Olga Khazan.

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Submitted on December 2nd 2016 by AdelleChattre

I can feel their unasked questions. People wonder how I can still stand, still walk, still laugh. But they don’t ask. You can’t ask that of a mother who has lost her child. My son, Daniel, died three years ago at the age of 22. When people ask me, “How… are you?,” that pause, that inflection, tells me that’s really what they want to know.

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Submitted on December 5th 2016 by hxxp

There are a group of parasites extremely disgusting and mean. Humanity declared war on them.

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Submitted on November 30th 2016 by Maternitus with 2 comments

“The rest of the morning was spent picking up body parts, still warm, in perfect condition, like they had just fallen off the owner. My Marines were crying and I yelled at them, calling them demeaning names and to man up. This day caused so many feelings & emotions in me that I wrote my dad about the event and how much it was tearing me apart. We never talked about it, but one year later, he died and I found it in a safe under his bed. Nothing else was in the safe. He took it to the grave. I felt so guilty and ashamed that I told him. I thought that I caused the stress that led to his fatal heart attack.”

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Submitted on November 29th 2016 by wetwilly87

“We call it the Utah paradox. It’s the happiest and saddest place on earth.” Why does the Intermountain West — from Montana to New Mexico — have the country’s highest suicide rate? Could it be the elevation?

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Submitted on December 5th 2016 by gladsdotter

Much of your identity is formed during moments you won't remember. By Erika Hayasaki.

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Submitted on December 2nd 2016 by AdelleChattre

The Food and Drug Administration has approved large-scale clinical trials to study MDMA, the illegal party drug better known as Ecstasy, as treatment for PTSD patients. By Dave Philipps.

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Submitted on December 3rd 2016 by AdelleChattre

Late for work in Manhattan, you push the crosswalk button and curse silently at the slowness of the signal change. You finally get a green light, cross the street, arrive at the office, get in the elevator and hit the close door (>|<) button to speed things along. Getting out on your target floor, you find that hurrying has you a bit hot under the collar, so you reach for the thermostat to turn up the air conditioning.

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Submitted on November 29th 2016 by kong88