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Cholesterol, coffee, and alcohol are among the winners in the government's new dietary advisory report, which is helping to create the nation's official 2015 dietary guidelines.
The key to sticking with your exercise goals is to learn to derive satisfaction from working out. Mindfulness can offer an assist to those not innately fueled by fitness desire.
Being a parent isn't easy. Luckily, there are plenty of Parenting 101 classes to help prepare you for the rest of your life.
Marketplace's David Gura recently reported on the success of American architects who help paint the Shanghai skyline with bold and innovative designs.
Depending on your perspective, lifehacks are either the lifeblood of simple living or a goofy punchline of DIY culture. What's undeniable is the money that's to be made from society's hunger for easy how-tos.
Some anxieties are indicators of healthy curiosity and strong moral fiber, while others are a source of severe stress.
What happens when you let a computer determine each child's personalized curriculum? Math teachers in several schools across America are seeing results through a growing brand of "blended learning."
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Michael Fenlon, global talent leader for PwC, discusses his company's Aspire to Lead initiative, which seeks to guide the next generation of women leaders.
A NASA-ESA joint discovery confirms held beliefs about the nature of X-ray-emitting winds that emanate from supermassive black holes.
If you think you have a productivity problem, you've probably got an overcommitment problem, says Elizabeth Saunders at the Harvard Business Review.
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The always-entertaining Ruby Wax explains the structure of the brain and how a natural hormone addiction — particularly to dopamine — keeps us in a perpetual state of wanting.
Rather than focus on not doing something you shouldn't do, create a new habit to override the old, bad one.
What happened when things were hot enough to spontaneously create matter and antimatter? “It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations […]
A long-lost, completed manuscript belonging to famous children's author Ted Geisel — better known as Dr. Seuss — is scheduled for release in July 2015.
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It's been proven that students taught by a personal tutor perform two standard deviations higher than those in a classroom. Luis von Ahn wants to replicate this effect with technology.
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Carol Sawdye, the Chief Financial Officer of PwC, shares the story of how a startling life event pushed her to become more active in career management.
The vice chairman and chief financial officer of PwC recounts how being diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease at 25 pushed her to become more active in pursuit of career goals.
What's more important: competence or confidence? When it comes to being a leader, it's preferable to have both. But if you had to choose just one, confidence is the way to go.
Ever spot a neat typeface you couldn't name? Identifying new and exciting fonts is easy with the correct tools.
Strong psychological reactions — call it the yuck factor — could prevent innovative ideas from maturing and therefore from reaching populations in need.