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How to Improve Your Self-Control
 .How personality and the situation affect self-control.How to improve your self-control.New research suggests self-control can be improved using abstract reasoning.
Temptation comes in many forms, often so potent, so animal, that it seems impossible to resist. Eating too much, drinking too much, spending too much or letting the heart rule the head. We get instant messages from deep in the gut that resonate through the mind, trying to dictate our behaviour.
One of humanity''s most useful skills, without which advanced civilisations would not exist, is .........
Tough as Nails
 I''m currently loving the styling of Alternative Apparel''s "Alternative Earth" collection as shown on the website. It has a sort of desert/military theme, and I think it looks laid-back, grungy, and slightly badass. In other words, it''s just plain cool.
The clothing may be eco-friendly gym wear (although, to be honest, I''d wear it on a day-to-day basis), but what I love is how the accessories bring it to the next level. Fingerless leather gloves, long-strapped leather bags, and gauzy beige scarves make me think of Tank Girl, a certain type of casual Israeli style, the military, and .........
Guaiacum coulteri
 A couple of announcements before today''s entry: first of all, welcome to Ruth Sanborn, who will be sharing both her photographs and writings with us on Botany Photo of the Day. We''ll get a short bio from Ruth in the near .........
Concours at Kirkland: Classic Boats to Match Classic Cars
 The Kirkland, Washington Concours, coming your way on Sep 07, gives me a rare excuse to upload an image of a classic wooden speedboat. Kirkland, you see, includes a small but enchanting selection, tied up at a dock adjacent to the lawns of the Woodmark Hotel at Carillon Point where the classic cars are on display. I've loved these "woodies" since I was a child born next to the beaches of Lake Ontario, for they represent the beauty of wood, the elegance of speed, and produce engine sounds as nostalgically rich as a Ferrari Testa Rossa cruising through the hills of Tuscany. .........
Men's Health Boost from Marriage Disappearing
 by Hui Liu and Debra Umberson published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests this story may be changing. Liu and Umberson looked at self-reported health data obtained as part of a huge US survey from over 1 million participants. They were interested in seeing how the relationship between marital status and health had changed between 1972 and 2003.
What they found was that the health gap between married men and men who had never been married narrowed in this 30-year period. By 2003 there was very little difference in health status between unmarried and married men. It .........
African Horned Melon
 Unlike most of the things I write about here (things I've seen, things I've heard), I have no idea about this fruit. Except for the fact that it is definitely quite cool, with its spiky outer layer and amazing, cartoonish inside. According to my research, it's kind of a cross between an aloe (texture), a lemon and a kiwi (taste), and a pumpkin (seeds). It's also slightly sour, and definitely mysterious. Has anyone tried .........
7 Myths of Crowd Psychology
 this view of crowds is promoted by many authors of introductory sociology textbooks. Indeed the idea that crowds demonstrate bizarre, almost pathological behaviour was championed by eminent French sociologist Gustave LeBon.
Despite these beliefs both in sociology textbooks and in the general public, the actual evidence does not support it. Crowds are not the many-armed destructive monsters of the popular or even fascist imagination.
Here are the seven myths about crowds that Schweingruber and Wohlstein identify, in order of how frequently they appear in introductory sociology .........
7 Myths of Crowd Psychology
this view of crowds is promoted by many authors of introductory sociology textbooks. Indeed the idea that crowds demonstrate bizarre, almost pathological behaviour was championed by eminent French sociologist Gustave LeBon.
Despite these beliefs both in sociology textbooks and in the general public, the actual evidence does not support it. Crowds are not the many-armed destructive monsters of the popular or even fascist imagination.
Here are the seven myths about crowds that Schweingruber and Wohlstein identify, in order of how frequently they appear in introductory sociology .........
YouTube Helps Memory and Aging
 Recently YouTube has started a new channel dedicated to helping educate people on brain diseases such as dementia, Alzheimer's and neurodegenerative illness. If you've ever wondered about the how aging effects your brain and memory, these videos may be of interest to you. .........
Ring around the round rock
 Not all of the round rocks at Roundrock are round rocks, I’ve said before (and likely will say again). Some have taken on different shapes. You see that this one has a rib around it, something like the rings of Saturn. I’m not going to speculate how this might have happened other than to say that the round rocks were formed as a consequence of a meteor strike hundreds of millions of years ago, and perhaps that meteor passed by the planet Saturn on its appointment with what we now call Earth. Perhaps it liked the look of the ringed planet and passed that memory into the mineral .........
Seven Of The Deadliest Delicacies
 Poisonous or dangerous food is considered a special delicacy by some cultures in several parts of the world. In most cases, a nice feast may turn into a deadly game of Russian roulette.
Would you take the risks of eating these deadly delicacies?
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Shop for Items From Photos
 With the Plink Facebook app you can help people shop from the photos you've added, or photos your friends have added. .........
Sunday stories
 I wish I could be out at Roundrock every weekend, but, alas, life intrudes. I wonder how the lake is doing. I wonder if the stray cattle found their way home. I wonder if the game camera snapped a shot of a bobcat. Or if the crows found all of the peanuts I left for them. Or if the woodpeckers found the suet .........
World Spice Festival Sri Lamka
 Sri Lanka will host the World Spice Festival from 14 to 24 August 2008. Sri Lanka has had strong links with spices since the 15th century. During the Festival dishes from all around the world are cooked and served in various hotels and restaurants around the island. There is a bazaar every evening on the shores of Beira Lake in the centre of the capital city .........
Improve Your Decision-Making
 Evolution has gifted us the most complicated entity yet found on Earth: our minds. But in many ways the mind is also a clumsy, cobbled together contraption with many predictable flaws.
In his new book Professor Gary Marcus of New York University likens the mind to a ''kluge'' - an engineering term meaning a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem.
To combat the ''klugey'' nature of our minds, Professor Marcus provides 13 quick techniques based on psychological research to help us combat its inherent flaws in decision-making.
1. Whenever possible, consider .........
Bright Lights
 "The 20th anniversary of the publication of [Roger] Ebert''s Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook - perhaps the best book ever written about experiencing the Cannes Film Festival - gives us an excellent occasion to revisit this classic and consider just how the Cannes of today has changed, or failed to change, since the 1980s," writes Kenneth T Rivers in a timely piece for the new issue of Bright Lights Film Journal (in which editor Gary Morris suggests that something big and, above all, bright is in the works, details of which are to be divulged .........
Son of Rambow
 "A likable, lightly sticky valentine to childhood, the 1980s and the dawning of movie love, Son of Rambow was written and directed by Garth Jennings and produced by Nick Goldsmith, the duo behind the underappreciated fantasy The Hitchhiker''s Guide to the Galaxy," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "Like that film, this one involves a snug community of oddballs and outcasts whose eccentricities, pluck and fundamental good cheer have long been durable staples of British screen .........
Wine Glossary: Enomatic
 Popular throughout Europe for years, at wine bars and stores such as Paris' Lavinia wine store, an enomatic is a self-serve wine dispenser. Patrons purchase a wine card (similar to a debit card) and insert the card into the machine for a wine pour.
The enomatic just came to my area, the first such machine in Ohio is located at 87 West 2 wine bar in Westlake Ohio's Crocker Park, just west of Cleveland.
I asked the establishment's owner, Tom Lutz why a wine bar patron would prefer to use the enomatic instead of having a server bring their wine. He explained that the .........
Attachment
 By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. Lao-Tzu
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Circular musing
 When we were last at Roundrock and took our obligatory hike around the almost full lake, we saw several spheres like the one you see above. I’m sure it’s obvious to you what the sphere is, but at the time I didn’t realize .........
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