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Unsurprisingly, Freeletics recommends exercise as one of the easiest and most efficient ways to bounce back from a bad day. "We know that a 20-minute bodyweight workout done at home can be just as effective as spending an evening in the gym, so there really are no more excuses not to work on a healthy body and a healthy mind," Freeletics CEO, Daniel Sobhani told Southern Living. But endorphins are a thing, so it's solid advice. Read the full article: https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/bad-days-per-year-mood-exercise-effect-256267

As car companies see people willing to ditch their vehicles, they’re responding by offering more flexible options. Instead of owning one car, what if you got whatever car you want, just when you needed it? BY JACLYN TROP4 MINUTE READ Four-figure down payments, cumbersome lease lengths, and skyrocketing insurance costs: it’s enough to send a would-be car shopper running for an Uber or Lyft. That’s why more automakers are rolling out flat-fee programs that aim to make leasing a car as simple as buying a smartphone. In a bid to keep potential customers from defecting to ride-hailing services and foregoing personal car ownership, brands like Volvo, Cadillac, an…

Selfies make our noses look 30 percent larger than they really are, plastic surgeons warn. In a 2017 poll, 55 percent of facial plastic surgeons reported seeing patients who wanted surgeries to help them look better in selfies, up from 13 percent in 2016. With the explosion of smartphones has come an epidemic of selfie-taking. These mini self-portraits are now a currency we trade on Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook. And they’re increasingly a way we see ourselves, and our flaws. But sometimes what we see in selfies isnÂ’t really whatÂ’s there, plastic surgeons are warning. ThatÂ’s the takeaway from a new research letter published Thursday in the journal J…

Date: March 1, 2018 Source: University of Colorado at Boulder Summary: A new study by a pain researcher shows that when a romantic partner holds hands with a partner in pain, their brain waves sync and her pain subsides. Credit: © PauloPJ / Fotolia Reach for the hand of a loved one in pain and not only will your breathing and heart rate synchronize with theirs, your brain wave patterns will couple up too, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study, by researchers with the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Haifa, also found that the more empat…

For people with coronary heart disease, losing weight will not prolong life, a new study reports, but increasing physical activity will. To their surprise, Norwegian researchers found that in some coronary heart disease patients — those of normal weight — weight loss actually increased the risk for death. The study, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, included 3,307 patients followed for an average of 16 years. There were 1,493 deaths. Lowering body mass index by more than 0.10 in a year was associated with a 30 percent increase in the risk for death, but only in those of normal weight at the start. Weight gain was not associated with mort…

When you hear a B-flat music note, do you see the color blue? Do the words in this sentence look red or green? If so, you may have synesthesia, a mysterious condition in which one sense consistently mingles with another. Now, for the first time, scientists have identified a handful of genes that might predispose people to synesthesia, offering a window to better understand disorders such as autism, which is also thought to involve abnormal brain connections. “It’s very exciting,” says Romke Rouw, a cognitive psychologist who studies synesthesia at the University of Amsterdam but who wasn’t involved in the study. “It provides a fascinating suggestion of a link between…

Meta-analysis of 10 Trials Involving 77 917 Individuals Key Points Question Does supplementation with marine-derived omega-3 fatty acids have any associations with reductions in fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease? Findings This meta-analysis of 10 trials involving 77 917 participants demonstrated that supplementation with marine-derived omega-3 fatty acids for a mean of 4.4 years had no significant association with reductions in fatal or nonfatal coronary heart disease or any major vascular events. Meaning The results provide no support for current recommendations to use omega-3 fatty acid suppl…

A new study of dysfunctional use of smart technology finds that the most addictive smartphone functions all share a common theme: they tap into the human desire to connect with other people. The findings, published in Frontiers in Psychology, suggest that smartphone addiction could be hyper-social, not anti-social. "There is a lot of panic surrounding this topic," says Professor Samuel Veissière, from the Department of Psychiatry at McGill University, Canada. "We're trying to offer some good news and show that it is our desire for human interaction that is addictive -- and there are fairly simple solutions to deal with this." We all know people who, seemingly in…

This year’s Arctic winter is the warmest on record as levels of sea ice hit record lows for the time of year, new US weather data has revealed. “It’s just crazy, crazy stuff,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, who has been studying the Arctic since 1982. “These heat waves – I’ve never seen anything like this.” The land weather station closest to the North Pole, at the tip of Greenland, spent more than 60 hours above freezing in February. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/arctic-winter-warmest-record-temperature-global-warming-climate-change-north-pole-melting-ice-caps-a8243631.html

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Amazon might be building out a “checking-account-like” product, partnering with big banks like JPMorgan He also might be paying to build out an Amazon “checking-account-like” product, partnering with big banks like JPMorgan. The details of the venture are still hazy, but itÂ’s clear Amazon wants to reduce big bank transaction processing fees. It might have even considered its own bank—38% of surveyed customers would trust a Bank of Amazon—if regulation and capital requirement rules werenÂ’t so stiff.

Here’s a metric Americans should start paying attention to: barrels per day. The U.S. is expected to pass Russia as the world’s No. 1 oil producer by 2023, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). Total U.S. supply will increase by 3.7 million barrels per day, which is enough to account for almost 60% of global growth. What is the U.S. doing right? It used the 2014 crash in oil prices as a call to action. Producers developed more efficient methods of extracting shale oil from deposits like the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico (think Friday Night Lights territory). What is everyone else doing wrong? The IEA says investment …

Lump a bunch of MIT researchers into an Uber and they’ll come out with a thesis. In this case, a new study titled The Economics of Ride-Hailing: Driver Revenue, Expenses and Taxes. The sparknotes: Drivers for Uber and Lyft make a median hourly profit of $3.37 74% of drivers earn less than minimum wage 30% of drivers lose money every mile Who (or whatÂ’s) to blame? Gig economy business models that saddle employees with fixed costs (e.g. cars), while their income shrinks due to industry competition. But Uber said weÂ’ve got some numbers of our own: Two studies from 2015 and 2017 put average hourly earnings at $19.04 and $21.07, respect…

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Adrian Naveda (C) talks on the phone, as he stands next to his girlfriend Glenys Reyes, before he travels by bus to Chile. CARACAS, (Reuters) – Just after dawn, dozens of Venezuelans gathered at the dark bus station in Caracas. They lugged one big suitcase each, as well as blankets, toilet paper, cheap bread and jugs of water. Weeping wives, confused children and elderly parents hugged them over and over until it was time to check tickets and weigh bags, then hung back, waiting hours for the bus to leave. When it finally pulled out, the passengers looked down at their loved ones, pounding on the windows and blowing kisses as they speeded out of this crumbl…

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