Doodling is the visual equivalent of tapping your pencil on your desk while waiting for a website to load or whistling an aimless tune as you scrub the toilet. Take a look at any of your notes from work meetings or any of your personal notebooks, and you'll likely find all manner of squiggles and lines, circles and boxes, [...] Read More
Any excuse to throw a party is a good excuse, and it behooves the host to provide some tasty snacks for peckish guests, especially if booze is on the menu. Sure, you can toss out a bag of chips and a jar of salsa, but how memorable is that? If you really want your guests to feel the love, [...] Read More
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is no joke and is plaguing more and more people each year as we rely more steadily on typing in our jobs. The carpal tunnel is a passageway that protects your median nerve, which travels from your forearm to the inside of your wrist and into your hands. When the median nerve inside the carpal tunnel [...] Read More
You’ve had a stressful day. After finishing chores around the house, getting the kids to bed, or putting those finishing touches on your report for work tomorrow, you FINALLY get a chance to sit down and relax. You pour yourself a glass of wine and close your eyes as that smooth, robust taste hits your tongue. It seems as though [...] Read More
In 1979, a bunch of Harvard grad students were asked by researchers whether they had set clear goals for themselves and written them down. A full 84 percent had no goals at all. 13 percent had goals, oh yes, but they hadn't written them down. Only 3 percent of the students responded that they had clear goals that were [...] Read More
Ergonomics is, in a nutshell, the science of designing a workspace to fit the worker, as opposed to forcing the worker to submit to the given parameters of a workspace. Whether you spend your days wielding a jackhammer or a butcher knife, and whether you while away the hours in a kitchen or a cubicle, using tools and techniques [...] Read More
Quinoa, pronounced "keen-WAH" (if you have trouble remembering that, just remember it's the exact opposite of "Joaquin," which is pronounced "wah-KEEN,") is a whole grain that's gluten-free, and packed to the gills with iron, Vitamin E, magnesium, and potassium. It's a primo source of fiber, and it's rich in lysine, an amino acid that promotes healthy tissues. Quinoa is a [...] Read More
If you generally have all of the motivation of a cat licking its paws in a puddle of sunshine, sticking with a weight loss plan for the long haul can be a serious personal challenge - maybe the biggest one ever. Heck, it can be hard even if you're the most motivated person on earth and can talk yourself [...] Read More
If your teeth look like the keys of that old piano you saw in the junk shop last week, it's to your advantage to whiten those babies ASAP. Recent research from the universities of Central Lancashire and Leeds found that having white teeth makes you more attractive. The researchers liken our teeth to the tail of a peacock, signifying [...] Read More
It's the same every morning: Your alarm goes off at 6:30, and you hit the snooze button. Fifteen minutes later, you hit it again, and then again, and again, and again, and at 7:45, you leap out of bed like a bat out of hell with just 30 minutes to go before you have to walk out the door [...] Read More