Like my novels, it enabled me to make sense of a world that often seemed senseless...
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2 Minutes to Kill
How Your Facebook Likes Could Cost You a Job
Researchers say a computer model can predict your personality based on your Facebook Likes, and such predictions could one day be used in hiring, banking and more. But should they?
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Smartphones Don’t Make Us Dumb
A significant change in our attention spans would happen over evolutionary time, not because you got a smartphone.
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Technologies, Apps for Therapy on the Go
A growing group of technologies is pitching coaching, counselling and monitoring services at teens and young adults fighting mental health issues.
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Mindfulness meditation melts away work-related stress
This growing trend can help everyone on the corporate ladder find calm within the chaos and a path to success.
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To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This
What happens if you decide that falling in love is not something that happens to you, but something that you do?
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Staying in touch during out-of-office hours damages workers’ wellbeing
Employees using various technological devices to stay "switched on" for work outside of office hours may face detrimental effects to their wellbeing and private life.
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Smile to remember a smile
Smiles are contagious, even when we're trying to remember them. A study carried out by a research team of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste shows that in order to recall an emotion (positive or negative) we "re-enact" the motor sequence of the facial expression corresponding to that emotion.
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Good quality me-time vital for home and work wellbeing
High quality me-time not only improves your psychological wellbeing it can also make you a more engaged employee.
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Mind Over Matter: Can You Think Your Way to Strength?
Regular mental imagery exercises help preserve arm strength during 4 weeks of immobilization, researchers have found. Strength is controlled by a number of factors -- the most studied by far is skeletal muscle. However, the nervous system is also an important, though not fully understood, determinant of strength and weakness. In this study, researchers set out to test how the brain's cortex plays into strength development.
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