Imagine the early morning feeling of wakefulness. You regain consciousness; but rarely realize that this feeling is constantly flowing through your mind, most times during the day. It’s easy to allow one’s mind to wander into the past with regret or aimlessly into the future with worry. Stepping into the present or the “void” is […]
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Jumping off a cliff sometimes seems like the best course of action. However, unless you are in an action movie, this is almost always a bad idea — but that does not stop these thoughts from whispering in the back of our minds. Rest assured, the majority of people with these thoughts are not suicidal,
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Two days prior to the deadline of this article, not a single word had been written. Procrastination has been a problem for generations of students, which few remedies have successfully solved. This obstacle will not fade any time soon and may have been exacerbated recently due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Procrastination is the intentional delaying
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Imagine sinking into bed after a long day, ready for the blissful escape of sleep. The dreams that follow are expected to be the usual blend of random absurdities — maybe a stroll through a cotton candy city, a conversation with a talking cat, or being chased through the clouds by an old friend. But
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Bilingual people always think twice. Literally. By constantly coactivating both languages through an expanded neural network, their minds tend to take slightly longer to process sounds and consider options for word retrieval. However, the momentary confusion of not being able to recall an exact word is a small price to pay for the impressive cognitive
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“RED ALERT! As was promised – the keys to Heaven’s Gate are here again in Ti and Do (The UFO Two) as they were in Jesus and His Father 2000 yrs. Ago,” boldly exclaims the website of Heaven’s Gate, a Christian group specializing in ufology and millenarianism. Ufology is the study of unidentified flying objects
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Four years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic stole millions of childhoods. Scientists raised concerns about the pandemic’s effects on development, education, and socialization, but the outcomes remain vastly evasive. Now, a new study has revealed that the adolescent brain experienced unusually fast maturation during lockdown — particularly in females. “Female brains aged significantly faster than male
Living aboard Aquarius, the world’s only underwater research center, isn’t glamorous. Its interior is about the size of a bus. You eat dehydrated backpacking food with tons of hot sauce because taste buds don’t work as well in the high-pressure atmosphere. There’s a constant mechanical hum and the “ticking” of snapping shrimp. But Northeastern marine
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It was dinner time on January 24, 2023, and Patrick Clancy had just left his home in Duxbury, MA to pick up some food for his wife and kids. In his 20-minute absence, his wife, Lindsay Clancy, strangled and killed each of their three children with exercise bands before cutting herself with a knife and
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