Casey Rosengren describes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and how it helped him to approach the stress and uncertainty of entrepreneurship in a new way. “At a high-level, ACT (pronounced "act" not "A-C-T") looks at how our thoughts influence our behavior, and offers tools for debugging when our minds get us stuck.” ~ learn more
An ode to ExRx.net. After reading this I checked it out, reading about the most common weight training mistakes. ~ learn more
“The ideal branch is in an upper middle-class neighborhood on a corner of Main Street and Main Street.” Thinking back to the first bank account I ever had, it was at the corner of the nearest major streets to my childhood home. There’s still a bank branch there, though it’s certainly not the same bank. ~ learn more
“This type of brain-zapping therapy, known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), has shown encouraging results in clinical trials involving chronic users of cocaine, alcohol, heroin, methamphetamine, and cannabis. Regulators in the United States, Canada, the European Union, and Israel have already authorized the treatment as an aid for cigarette smokers hoping to kick the habit.” ~ learn more
“For the given density, our material is the strongest known," Seok-Woo Lee, a materials scientist at the University of Connecticut and coauthor of a resulting study published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, said in a statement.” ~ learn more
“Counselors vary substantially in their effectiveness at increasing high school graduation and college attendance, selectivity, and persistence. Counselor effects on educational attainment are similar in magnitude to teacher effects, but they flow through improved information and assistance more than cognitive or non-cognitive skill development.” ~ learn more
“Robots—and then humans—are going back to the lunar surface. Here’s what they’ll be doing.” ~ learn more
“The effort will be managed by the Department of Energy and will initially have a budget in the tens of millions…” ~ learn more
“When estimating consumption from the amount of beer provided to soldiers, convicts, and workers or reconstructing consumption from tax revenues on beer we see that the average person consumed about a liter of beer a day, this is around four times as much as consumption in modern beer-drinking countries.” ~ learn more
“Drone pilot Sigurður Þór Helgason took astonishing video of the crater collapse at the eruption on the Reykjanes Peninsula.” ~ learn more