April 2010
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March 2010
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Mexico's Monarch Butterflies Suffer Population... →
thinkmexican:
Monarch butterflies, devastated by storms at their winter home in Mexico, have dwindled to their lowest population levels in decades as they begin to return to the United States and Canada. The monarch loss is estimated at 50% to 60%, which means the breeding population is expected to be the smallest since the Mexican overwintering colonies were discovered in 1975, said Chip...
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Feel now, think later, for more flowing creativity... →
psychotherapy:
Creating can be an emotional process. But there’s good emotional—even when you’re sad or the work epitomizes sorrow—and there’s bad emotional. That’s when your inner critic attacks you, calls you mean names, and causes you not to feel like creating anymore.
One of the ways you may slip out of flow when you’re creating something is if you don’t feel that what you’re producing—your...
Utah Governor Signs Controversial Law Charging... →
itsjustsex:
I’m sure many of you have heard the news regarding Utah and their rewritten abortion laws in the works. While they lessened some of the harsh wording from earlier, this bill still criminalizes women in Utah for their abortions. And the entire reason this bill came about is a sad story that needs addressing as well.
…a 17-year-old girl from Vernal, Utah, who was seven months pregnant...
Be Sad and Succeed →
psychotherapy:
Next time you find yourself in a bad mood, don’t try to put on a happy face—instead tackle a project that has been stymieing you. Melancholy might just help you hit peak performance, reports Joseph Forgas, a professor of psychology at the University of New South Wales, in the journal Australasian Science. Forgas reviewed several of his studies in which researchers induced either a...
The future is like a Japanese game show - you have no idea what’s going on.
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so down
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srsly.
on an unrelated note, celebrating a little too much on a friend’s birthday can be simultaneously good and bad.
What I hate most is that so many people can’t see the difference between being...
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