What’s something simple that can make your work dramatically more effective and error-free?

Source A checklist. Atul Gawande tells the story of how much of a difference checklists made in a hospital ICU: Pronovost and his colleagues monitored what happened for a year afterward. The results were so dramatic that they weren’t sure whether to believe them: the ten-day line-infection rate went from eleven per cent to zero. So they...

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Darts fan booted out of final because he looked like Jesus

Bearded Nathan Grindal, 33, was enjoying the match between star champ Phil Taylor and Kim Huybrechts when some of the 4,500-strong audience spotted his likeness to the son of God. Chants of "Jesus" quickly spread through the rowdy crowd, interrupting play at Butlins in Minehead, Somerset.  Security was called before six bouncers escorted upset Nathan from the Cash Converters Players' Championship, being shown on ITV4. As he left a chant of 'Stand up if you love Jesus' broke out, with many of the boozed-up crowd getting to their...

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What’s the secret to communicating with irrational, angry or just plain crazy people?

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/12/wh/   By Eric Barker  We all have to deal with our share of hotheads and crazies. What does research say works with them? First off, you can’t get angry too. Because then there are two crazy people arguing. While very entertaining to onlookers, this doesn’t accomplish much. Tell yourself...

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Major Scientific Study Examines Domestic Violence Among Gay Men

By Roy Waller The American Journal of Public Health has published a detailed study of battering victimization in the male homosexual community (December 2002, Vol. 92, No. 12). The probability-based sampling of "men who have sex with men" (MSM) focused on four geographical areas (San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York) and resulted in 2,881 completed telephone interviews. Based on these responses, this first-of-its-kind study determined that the rate of battering victimization among gay men in the target group (men over 18...

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5 reasons why humor is more powerful than you would ever guess:

Source Humor is our brain’s way of rewarding us for correcting errors in our thinking. It improves our mood because it takes brainpower to decode the joke and having to think kills bad feelings. Humor can make you more persuasive because humor mentally disarms people. Women find funny guys attractive because a sense of humor = intelligence....

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Are arranged marriages better?

  http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/05/are-arranged-marriages-better/   By Eric Barker Marriages based on love start out with higher marks for closeness (70) but over time fall much further (40). Arranged marriages start off lower (58) but in the end rise almost to the initial scores for love marriages (68). Via The Art...

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What does Peace in Europe mean to EU?

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Miracles on the border: Syrians encounter Jesus

NOTE TO READERS: The deepening crisis created by the civil war in Syria poses a major threat not only to the continued existence of that nation but to the stability of an already chaotic Middle East. This story and the following other stories cover the growing Christian ministry to thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing into neighboring countries.As...

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Church going Christians have lower divorce rates

 http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2011/08/does-religion-protect-against-divorce/ According to this study, divorce rates weren’t lower for religious people — unless they attended services: Frequency of divorce and separation among 15,714 adults from the British Social Attitudes data set for 1985-2005 peaked at around 50 years of age, and increased significantly over the period of study. Ratios of marital breakdown were compared between those of no religious affiliation and Christian affiliates with different levels of church attendance.   Frequent...

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A Woman’s Walk Reveals Her Sex Life

Source A new study reveals women who have orgasms walk differently from women who don’t – and you won’t believe what gives it all away! As Fashion Week opens in New York City, those fabulous super models may be showing off more than just another set of designer duds. They could be giving us a bird’s eye view of their sex life …without even knowing it. In fact, if new research out of Belgium is correct, the way a woman walks is a dead-giveaway of her degree of sexual satisfaction –including whether or not she’s regularly having orgasms. The...

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What do the words you use say about you?

Source A lot. Your personality can be determined just by looking at the way you text message. You can make accurate judgments about your favorite author’s personality just by reading their work. You can probably tell a great deal about my personality from the words I use in my blog posts. Word choice can predict whether...

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What kind of complaints signal the end of a relationship?

By Eric Barker  Those that don’t contain the word “but.” Unqualified complaints were more common in relationships that weren’t going well. Via 59 Seconds: Change Your Life in Under a Minute: Perhaps the most important difference came down to just one word—“but.” When talking about their partner’s greatest faults, those in successful relationships tended to qualify any criticism. Her husband was lazy, but that gave the two of them reason to laugh. His wife was a terrible cook, but as a result they ate out a lot. He was introverted,...

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Tips from the CIA for Detecting Lies

Source   There’s an episode of the old “Gilligan’s Island” television show where the castaways eat seeds that make mind reading possible. While it seems fun at first, the Gilligan gang soon finds out that sometimes it’s best not to know what everyone is thinking all the time. But wouldn’t you like to know what your boss is thinking?...

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What makes something go viral on the internet?

Making people angry. Via Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator: In 2010, two researchers at the Wharton School looked at seven thousand articles that made it onto the New York Times Most E-mailed List. (A story from the Times is shared on Twitter once every four seconds, making the list one of the biggest media platforms...

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Swimming with the White Shark

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What happens when you stay awake for 11 days straight?

Source Via Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep: The only thing stranger than the need to sleep is what happens when it is ignored. In 1965, a San Diego high school student named Randy Gardner stayed awake continuously for 264 hours, an eleven-day feat documented by a team of researchers from Stanford University who happened...

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What is Cultural Marxism?

William S. Lindhttp://www.marylandthursdaymeeting.com/Archives/SpecialWebDocuments/Cultural.Marxism.htmIn his columns on the next conservatism, Paul Weyrich has several times referred to “cultural Marxism.” He asked me, as Free Congress Foundation’s resident historian, to write this column explaining what cultural Marxism is and where it came from. In order to understand what something is, you have to know its history.Cultural Marxism is a branch of western Marxism, different from the Marxism-Leninism of the old Soviet Union. It is commonly known...

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The non-existent debate

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What are the 5 keys to a good apology?

´ Source Apologies do make a difference. People often prefer them over money, even if they’re just cheap talk. What does the research say about the best way to apologize? One Don’t apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong: …victims reacted most positively to apologies that were congruent...

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Lioness adopts calf

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