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Long Thoughts and the Internet Sabbath
Read more: Long Thoughts and the Internet SabbathTo the Point joins the chatter re The Internet and the Human Brain–sparked in part by the publication of an apparently doom-heavy new book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. Want to keep yourself thinking “long thoughts”? Take weekends away from the web, suggests one panelist…if you can.
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Money v. Happiness
Read more: Money v. HappinessPsychCentral: Money Impedes Our Ability to Enjoy the Little Pleasures in Life, says study. Simply seeing a picture of money — which appears to prime our brains, increasing the concept of money at a level below awareness — seems to impede our ability to enjoy life’s little pleasures.
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Sexsomnia
Read more: SexsomniaNYT: No Sex, Please: You’re Sleeping Some people sleepwalk; others talk in their sleep. Now a study finds that 1 in 12 patients with sleep disorders reported having had sex while they were asleep. Yes, there’s a website on the subject: sleepsex.org.
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Driving Cell-Drunk
Read more: Driving Cell-DrunkOprah’s been on the march against distracted driving for a while. Now, reports ScienceDaily, MDs are weighing in in the New England Journal of Medicine. One study showed talking and driving posed a four time greater risk than undistracted driving. A second study suggested texting raised the risk of collision by a factor of 23.
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Sober Living
Read more: Sober LivingA profile of an upscale, gay sober living house in the NYT: Avoiding the Undertow of Temptation. “A critically important component of recovery for people is a sense of community, not isolation,” said Robert J. Lindsey, president and chief executive of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. In sober share houses, the people…