What is the longest word in the dictionary? PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

45 is the number of letters in the longest word in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged: pneumonoultra-microscopicsilico-volcanoconiosis, a disease of the lungs caused by inhaling very fine irritant particles.

While we're at it, happy late birthday (sorry we forgot!) to Noah Webster, father of the first American dictionary, who was born on October 16, 1758.  Truly a man of his word.
 
Things to do before you're 25 .... PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, January 03, 2009
Take a self-defense course.  It'll teach you skills every girl should have to protect herself.  Check out classes designed for women at rad-systems.com, and girlsfightback.org
 
Why socializing makes you smarter ... PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Boosting your brainpower can be as easy as chatting with a friend.  Even 10 minutes of talk time made participants in a study score higher on overall intelligence, memory and problem-solving tests, researchers recently found.
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Which gender is more forgiving? PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, December 08, 2008
It turns out that forgiveness is hard to do- and men just might be better at it than women.  When men who have done the same naughty deed put themselves in an offender's shoes, they find it easier to forgive.  But for women, empathy has the opposite effect.  If we've committed the same transgression, the other person's offense actually seems less forgivable.  "It's possible that women feel more shame when remembering their own offenses," says study author Julie Juola Exline, Ph.D., associate professor at Case Western Reserve University.  Viewing someone else's action as worse than your own is an attempt to ease feelings of guilt over your wrongdoing, she says.  So if you're finding it hard to forgive, try forgiving yourself first.
 
Have a Plant-iful Day! PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, December 04, 2008
7 potted plants just might be all you need to feel better at work.  Researchers at Texas State University, in San Marcos, found that people who had a plant in their offices rated themselves as more satisfied with life and work than did those without them.  Black thumbs, fear not: It's rather easy to find hard-to-kill indoor plants.
 
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