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“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” Warren Buffet
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You Can Blend That?

You Can Blend That? | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
Only On The Web: Tom Dickson, founder of Blendtec, shows Daniel Sieberg that blenders can do a lot more than make smoothies.
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Five guys take same photo for 30 years

Five guys take same photo for 30 years | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
When five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake in 1982, they didn't plan on making it a tradition. But that's what it became.
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Why Is Exercise Such a Chore?

Why Is Exercise Such a Chore? | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
Exercise confers huge health benefits, so why does it often feel like such a chore? Evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman of Harvard explains the paradox.
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Pulse: Are fathers becoming more involved with their kids?

CBS News polls Americans on how fatherhood has changed over the past 20 years
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Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive?

Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive? | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
One factor: the world's largest eyewear company, the Italian firm Luxottica, controls a big chunk of the business
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Video: Google releases helium-filled balloons to provide internet access

Video: Google releases helium-filled balloons to provide internet access | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
Google experimented this week with helium-filled balloons and sent them into the stratosphere to provide cheaper, and quicker internet access from the sky rather than over landlines.
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The 10 Least Missable Product Placements in Movie Theaters This Year So Far

The 10 Least Missable Product Placements in Movie Theaters This Year So Far | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
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Japanese "eyeball licking" trend carries blindness risk

Japanese "eyeball licking" trend carries blindness risk | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
Eyeballs contain a lot of nerve endings, but are also a prime area for bacterial infections including pink eye, chlamydia
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Watch America's Gun Numbers in Real Time, from Newtown to Now, All Day

Watch America's Gun Numbers in Real Time, from Newtown to Now, All Day | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
                 
There have been zero new federal gun policies passed.  
Data from Slate, @GunDeaths, and the FBI. Gun icons from Shutterstock. Photo: Flags on the National Mall, post-Newtown.
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Hyperkinetic time-lapse graffiti is a total trip

Hyperkinetic time-lapse graffiti is a total trip | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
YouTube video shot/cut by Selina Miles for Ironlak Films showing graffiti artist Sofles spray painting a wall
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How Happiness Directly Impacts Your Success

How Happiness Directly Impacts Your Success | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
Feeling unhappy? Learn how increasing your happiness is within your power, and how doing so directly influences your success.

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Sandeep Gautam's curator insight, June 13, 3:55 AM

Optimism, social connections and seeing stressors as challenges is the key to happiness and success!

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June 11, 2013 - Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update is out

June 11, 2013 - Minding Psychology: A  Weekly Update is out | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it

"Minding Psychology: A Weekly Update", by Natalie Stewart: A free online newspaper with a curated selection of articles, blog posts, videos and photos about psychology - for students and professionals in the field.

 

Read and subscribe free online at: http://paper.li/NattyStewart24/1327249950


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Bolivia: A Country With No McDonald’s

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What America can learn from one of the most sustainable food nations on Earth.

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Jane Mifsud's comment, June 10, 6:39 PM
This is how it should be, support local growers and we can stay healthy and wealthy!
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عمعم نمنم

Steven McGreevy's curator insight, June 13, 8:43 PM

More food related fodder for your fantastic friday.

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The Shine Is Off

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The run-up in gold prices in recent years—from $800 an ounce in early 2009 to above $1,900 in the fall of 2011—had all the features of a bubble.
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National Geographic show "Brain Games" challenging what you think you know ... - CBS News

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National Geographic show "Brain Games" challenging what you think you know ...
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That's a theme of the program "Brain Games" on the National Geographic Channel, which uses experiments to challenge what we think we know about the brain.
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Astronaut wives: The other space pioneers

Astronaut wives: The other space pioneers | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
As the men of the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs reached further to the Moon, their spouses back home faced stresses and celebrity in an orbit all their own
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The art of shaving is alive and well

Michael Dubin got his brush with fame with a viral video when he launched Dollar Shave Club from a Venice, Calif., warehouse
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?

How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
The answer to the simple question in that headline is surprisingly hard to come by. So Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths are collecting data for our crowdsourced interactive. This data is necessarily incomplete.
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Video: On The Road: College students reach for the sky

Video: On The Road: College students reach for the sky | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
As part of our continuing series "On The Road," Steve Hartman meets a group of engineering students from the University of Maryland who are fighting funding gaps and gravity to find a way to make a human-powered helicopter fly.
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Video: Hold on for the human-powered helicopter

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Tonight on the CBS Evening News, Steve Hartman goes "On the Road" to Maryland where college students are close to achieving one of Leonardo da Vinci's dreams.
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Spend the Summer Reading the Books That Will Be Turned into Movies This Fall

Spend the Summer Reading the Books That Will Be Turned into Movies This Fall | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
See full coverage Summer is a good season for reading, with all that time on the beach and being stuck in traffic on the way to the beach. But your book selection does not have to only be easy beach reading.
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Legos Are Getting Angrier And That's Not Funny, Study Says : NPR

Legos Are Getting Angrier And That's Not Funny, Study Says : NPR | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
A researcher in New Zealand has examined the tiny toys' expressions. Most of them still look happy, but an increasing number look rather upset. He thinks that might not be good for children.
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They're in your head - Times LIVE

They're in your head - Times LIVE | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it

"The Coke bottle-shaped image encapsulates words attributed to graffiti artist Banksy which rant against the visual hegemony that advertisers have in public spaces. "The advertisers," says the poster, "have rearranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked your permission..."

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Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Carl Jung on Individuation

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The origin of the 8 hour work day and why we should rethink it

The origin of the 8 hour work day and why we should rethink it | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it

For centuries we're fussing about what the our optimal work time is in every day life. In today's article, we explore why focusing on energy not time is smart. 

 

(from the article) One of the most unchanged elements of our life today is our optimal work time or how long we should work – generally, every person I’ve spoken to quotes me something close to 8 hours a day.

And data seems to confirm that: The average American works 8.8 hours every day. At least, those are the official statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:


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Ally Greer's curator insight, June 12, 1:06 AM

Leo is an incredible researcher who's equally talented at sharing the knowledge he discovers with this research.


Here, he presents scientific data to back up the "life-hacker" inspired position he's constantly taking to rethink the workday. Maybe reevaluating something that was invented (without much backup) almost 100 years ago isn't such a bad idea!

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Adorable father and son sing The Beatles

Adorable father and son sing The Beatles | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
The Feed compiles some of the week's best viral videos, including a "monkey" doing a tightrope walk, a pick-me-up after the Game of Thrones "Red Wedding" episode and a break dancing teen doing a head spin on a soda can.
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Texting: Can we pull the plug on our obsession?

Texting: Can we pull the plug on our obsession? | INTRODUCTION TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES DIGITAL TEXTBOOK(PSYCHOLOGY-ECONOMICS-SOCIOLOGY):MIKE BUSARELLO | Scoop.it
In psych experiment majority of students couldn't go 24 hours without their cellphones; Is our love affair with technology making us more disconnected from people?
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