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Whether you are reading a book, studying for a class, or simply doing your job, concentration plays a major role in how we accomplish those tasks during the thought process. In the same manner, our concentration allows us to clearly focus on the task at hand. Concentration is simply the mental process of focusing your […]
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One of combat sports’ most influential rules regulators is now part of the UFC Hall of Fame. It was announced during Saturday’s UFC 255 broadcast that UFC senior vice president of government and regulatory affairs Marc Ratner has been inducted into the Hall of Fame’s Contributor Wing. Ratner also served as the executive director of […]
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Altered white matter limits the brain’s conscious access to information, potentially contributing to delusions and other psychotic symptoms of mental health disorders, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Your brain is always active, but you are not always aware of it. Accepted theory holds you do not become consciously aware of something until non-conscious […]
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President-elect Joe Biden has made the historic decision to tap Janet Yellen, former chair of the Federal Reserve, as his Treasury Secretary. She doesn’t have an easy job ahead of her. What’s happening: Yellen — who, if confirmed by the Senate, would be the first woman in the role — will be tasked with shepherding […]
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While this season’s multitude of gaming product launches—the Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and RTX 3000 series—have all been marred by limited stock and scalper bots, AMD’s Frank Azor said in September that the Radeon RX 6000 products would not suffer the same fate. He even accepted one Twitter user’s $10 bet that it would be […]
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This story was originally published in the December 14, 1982 issue of Woman’s Day magazine. It was the first place winner out of thousands of entries in the magazine’s “My Most Moving Holiday Tradition” contest in which readers were asked to share their favorite holiday tradition and the story behind it. The Little White Envelope […]
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Jennifer Maia had Twitter buzzing when she smothered champ Valentina Shevchenko in the second round of their flyweight title fight on Saturday at UFC 255. Imagine what Jessica Andrade would do, UFC President Dana White asked after Shevchenko retook control and won the fight. Maia was a massive underdog to dethrone the champion, reaching as […]
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When employers cut down on staff, more incidents of violence are reported to the Swedish Work Environment Authority, according to research. Violence often occurs at workplaces where clients are in need of help and support. “Actually, this is a work environment issue,” says Sofia Wikman, criminologist at University of Gävle. Research shows that reductions in […]
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BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street manage a stunning $15 trillion in combined assets, equivalent to more than three-quarters the size of the US economy. The rapid growth of the Big Three fund managers, driven in part by rise of dirt-cheap ETFs, gives them enormous sway over financial markets and the priorities of Corporate America. Combined, […]
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Countless efforts have been made to encourage best practices. There’s no shortage of password managers on the market capable of storing complex passwords for all of your accounts with a single master password. Some have even invested heavily in eliminating traditional passwords entirely. Yet, here we are at the end of 2020, looking at a […]
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