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Why People Would Rather Shock Themselves Than Reflect

All of us are aware that being alone, without outside stimulation, is something a lot of people have problems with. Why else would hundreds of millions of people spend hours a day watching a box that negatively impacts their brain while teaching them very

Correcting 7 Misconceptions About The Brain In 3 Minutes

None of this information is secret or remotely hidden: all of it can be confirmed by doing simple online searches and reading reputable sources. I am always astounded how many people think we only use 10% of our brains or want to categorize others based

Why You Feel Uncomfortable On The Bus

Although many of us are desensitized to the big city life, a feeling of uneasiness or discomfort is common to many people while inside a relatively full bus, subway, or shopping center. We have all felt this to one extent or another, and we are all aware

Which Country Does The Most Good For The World?

This is actually a very difficult question, since nations are currently not being evaluated based on the good they are doing for the world by anyone other than Simon Anholt. According to him in his video presentation below, the answer is Ireland. All too frequently, we

How To Get Plastic Out Of The Oceans Right Now

Boyan Slat, who famously developed a model for cleaning plastic out of the oceans about 2 years ago, has finally proven his project to be truly feasible. It has been a long journey, at times filled with public doubt and requiring crowd-funding efforts. The story is

This Infographic Ends The Vaccine-Autism Debate

This graphic speaks for itself and cites its sources, and a more recent 2013 study, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, verified the same as all the larger studies referenced in this image: there is absolutely no connection between vaccines and autism. The issue isn’t

Why You Want Porn, And Don’t Recognize Its Effects

This presentation by Gary Wilson, who admittedly is not a psychologist but instead a physician, is very well laid out and explains the natural reasoning behind the fact that essentially every guy with an internet connection has had experience with porn. Its main effects,

5 Ways To Help Prevent You From Getting Cancer

Cancer is a disease of malfunctioning cell division, which has been around since at least the dawn of civilization, is a common human problem: you cannot drive your chances of getting it down to 0%. That said, there are a number of things you can

The Meaning Of Life That We Keep Forgetting

The biggest regrets of the dying are not related to what they did, but what they did not do. This is one of many life lessons shared by this 6 year old, who inspires us to take responsibility of our lives and situation: to

We Are Fueling An Extinction Rate 1000x Normal

Let’s not mince words: species are currently going extinct a rate 1000 times the normal background rate outside of periods of mass extinction (think of the dinosaurs). The issue of biosphere stability is so serious relative to human survival that even the mainstream media have started