Judging intelligence by looking at an IQ score, is akin to judging illness by looking at one’s temperature on a thermometer. They both say *something* about the person who the number is about, but the number is definitely not the…
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Math anxiety is common. Many people, unfortunately, had bad experiences with their early math teachers. They may have had other negative experiences also, perhaps someone telling them, when they were children, that they were just no good at doing math….
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These are the days of speed. The emphasis is on fast or instant. We have DSL, fast-food restaurants, cell phones, jet speed travel etc. Fast means keeping up everywhere; on the job, in the social life. The pressure is on….
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The term ‘quarter-life crisis’ was first coined by a Canadian psychologist , Elliott Jaques in the mid 1960s and refers to those in their twenties who are managing the transition from adolescence to adulthood. It is a period when they…
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A VALVE CALLED RELEASE The term “Going Postal”, is not funny to me. Just as the names Bin Laden and McVeigh, do not in any way elicit a need to laugh in my being. Frankly, there’s nothing funny about any…
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It’s a sad fact, but still a fact that when economic situations take a downward spiral, the crime rate shoots for the stars! The relationship between the two seems to be on a teeter totter. When one goes down, the…
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Albert Einstein was worried in 1939. His good friend Leo Szilard and a handful of other physicists, urged him to write a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt warning him that the Germans were likely working on the atomic bomb. Einstein…
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Historically things get really bad before they get better. A revolution is the most obvious sign of this tendency. The French revolution is often put forward as an example of poverty, need and desperation becoming so widespread that an overthrow…
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According to Wikipidia dictionary, ADDICTION has been defined with regard solely to psychoactive substances which cross the blood-brain barrier once ingested, temporarily altering the chemical milieu of the brain.LOVE on the other hand, is the emotions of strong affection and personal attachment. Other people mistakenly…
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Much is made of the innocent passerby who is killed by a gangster or a mental patient. These are horrific crimes, and they do happen, but they are actually extremely rare. However much ordinary people may fear crime, it is…
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