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Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
“It’s pretty amazing, really, that you can get this translation from the realm of purely physical stresses to the realm of psychological stressors.”
Is it? I would think that stress of any type would be better handled the more it has been introduced into a system. It isn't that the running in the rats produced cells that were calmer when stressed, but instead that the rat as a whole had already felt stress at sometime before, thus making the sensation a lot more feasible to all parts (Note: it sounds like the scan didn't show this though).
Also note the interesting comment (and links) involving Cannabinoids.
More on The Reality of a Times Bestseller | GENREALITY
An amazing read on how writing really only pays if you are one of THE books of the year. Even an $8 paperback in the NYT Best seller lists only puts this author $2500 above the poverty line.
The 100 Best Books of the Decade
Only read 6 :( Someone add a 25th ,26th, and 27th hour pls.
The Accessibility Paradox | Peer to Peer Review - 10/29/2009 - Library Journal
In the same way, we have come to realize that libraries will endure. Our professional roles will change, our relationship to our users and to the information they seek will evolve, but there is still a demand for high quality information and for assistance in learning how to make good choices. Creating, curating, and publishing are likely to start blending in interesting new ways. The value of what we do will still be there. We just have to figure out how to stop equating the price tag with our actual worth, roll up our sleeves, and find interesting new ways to make good information freely available. Isn't that what libraries have always been about?
Great read. Nice to see an occupation/industry react and adapt to the net rather than bitch or sue.
Buy Bad Code Offsets
Brilliant.
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
I remember seeing a multi-part series on Discovery (I think?) a few years ago about what would happen if humanity suddenly was no more. This pretty much sums up the same thing, but gives a neat timeline-ish view of it.
A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families by Giles Turnbull - The Morning News
Probably my favorite Lego article as of late, if only for the kids descriptions.
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Update; Looks like Amazon has the Cage the Elephant Album for $2,99 today (11.19.2009)
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