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22/04/2021

brewers, no witches

What do witches have to do with your favorite beer? When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. The Sanderson sisters didn’t chug down bottles of Sam Adams in “Hocus Pocus.” But the history of beer points to a not-so-magical legacy of Continue reading

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lifestyle, pivo, ženy

15/03/2021

How Friends Help You Regulate Your Emotions

In tough times, it helps to have friends and loved ones to turn to for support. They can offer a hug, some words of encouragement, and the assurance that what we’re going is, indeed, lousy.But a new study suggests that support from friends does more than that. It can help our brains see the problem in a Continue reading

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úzkost, deprese, emoce, lifestyle, pozitivní, psyché, psychologie

12/03/2021

How to Become a Friend to Yourself

“You need self-compassion to stay friendly with other people in the long term,” says Germer. “When all you do is give and give, you get burned out.” Many people are skeptical when they first hear the term “self-compassion,” because it sounds like just sitting around feeling sorry for yourself, or maybe even acting selfishly. But Continue reading

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emoce, lifestyle, pozitivní, psyché, psychologie, zdraví

04/01/2021

Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

Among them were the marketing and advertising arms of Google, Amazon, and Oracle’s BlueKai consumer data division, which reported a massive data exposure this summer, leaving billions of records—including personally identifiable information—accessible to the open internet without a password. Zajac was floored when The Markup showed her how many trackers appeared on the site. She Continue reading

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big data, diktáty, lifestyle, marketing, psychologie, vědění

29/12/2020

In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants

In my own daily life, I already engage constantly with magical forces both sinister and benevolent. I scry through crystal my enemies’ movements from afar. (That is, I hate-follow people on Instagram.) I read stories about cursed symbols so powerful they render incommunicative anyone who gazes upon them. (That is, Unicode glyphs that crash your Continue reading

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21/12/2020

Your Sleep Tonight Changes How You React to Stress Tomorrow

When participants got more sleep, they had higher levels of positive emotions and lower levels of negative emotions the next day. Moreover, sleep impacted how the events of the day affected them. On days when participants had a stressful event, their positive emotions took less of a hit if they’d gotten a good night’s sleep Continue reading

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pozitivní, psyché, psychologie

21/12/2020

How Civilization Broke Our Brains

Several months ago, I got into a long discussion with a colleague about the origins of the “Sunday scaries,” the flood of anxiety that many of us feel as the weekend is winding down and the workweek approaches. He said that the culprit was clear, and pointed to late-stage capitalism’s corrosive blend of performance stress Continue reading

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diktáty, lifestyle, peníze, pozitivní, práce, psyché, psychologie, zdraví

17/12/2020

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms

When not busy trying to murder humans in The Matrix, the AI program known as Agent Smith took time to pontificare on our nature as a species. You can’t really consider us mammals, he reckoned, because mammals form an equilibrium with their environment. By contrast, humans move to an area and multiply “until every natural Continue reading

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biologie, diktáty, ekologie, klima, lifestyle, newastuj

30/11/2020

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.

Are we living in a computer simulation? The question seems absurd. Yet there are plenty of smart people who are convinced that this is not only possible but perhaps likely. In an influential paper that laid out the theory, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom showed that at least one of three possibilities is true: 1) Continue reading

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diktáty, lifestyle

22/11/2020

Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?

Are you the type of person who always says thank you? Well, if it\’s by email, you should stop, according to UK officials looking at ways to save the environment. The Financial Times reports that we may all soon be encouraged to send one fewer email a day, cutting out \“useless\“ one-line messages – such Continue reading

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brewers, no witches

How Friends Help You Regulate Your Emotions

How to Become a Friend to Yourself

Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website

In 2029, the Internet Will Make Us Act Like Medieval Peasants

Your Sleep Tonight Changes How You React to Stress Tomorrow

How Civilization Broke Our Brains

All the Stuff Humans Make Now Outweighs Earth’s Organisms

Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably.

Can sending fewer emails really save the planet?

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