How float clinics treat anxiety

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1663 words  |  Patria Henriques

Story by Mandy Oaklander Cinematography By Michael Potter Video By Diane Tsai Experience Direction By Bronson Stamp hey started late one night, the tremors that shook Michael Harding’s whole body when he lay down to sleep. “A bit weird,” thought Harding, then a 23-year-old Australian soldier stationed in Afghanistan. Just days before, he’d been in an hours-long siege in which his second-in-command was shot and killed. [Read More]

Hurricane Sandy Bears Down on the East Coast

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  109 words  |  Martina Birk

Superstorm Sandy slammed into the New Jersey coastline late Monday, Oct. 29, hurling seawater at cities and towns along the eastern seaboard. In New York City, storm surge flooded tunnels, subway stations and parts of the city’s electrical system. Sandy left at least 50 people dead in her wake in North America, and has put an estimated 8.2 million households without power in 17 states, according to the Associated Press. [Read More]

International Trade Brno - Czech Universities

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  10 words  |  Martina Birk

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Its Wrong to Tell Our Kids That Hard Work Always Pays Off

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1159 words  |  Billy Koelling

A star athlete at the college where I work recently stopped by my office. After committing a few unforced errors during a weekend match, she was — several days later — riven by self-criticism and distracted on the field. “I can’t stop beating myself up,” she told me. “I’m at peak fitness, and I practice hard. How is this happening?” This student, like many I teach, believes she should be able to control the outcomes of her life by virtue of her hard work. [Read More]

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Stephen Henriques, and Steven Tian

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  43 words  |  Tandra Barner

Sonnenfeld is a Lester Crown Professor of Leadership Practice and President of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. Henriques is a senior fellow at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute. Tian is director of research at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute.

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Jeremy Allen White, Jennifer Coolidge on Carmy Love Life, Tanya Death

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2046 words  |  Tandra Barner

Jennifer Coolidge first met Jeremy Allen White at the Golden Globes in January, when they were both waiting backstage to get their statuettes engraved. Coolidge had just added another trophy to her mantel for playing the desperately lonely heiress Tanya McQuoid in Season 2 of “The White Lotus,” HBO’s biting parable about American excess. Jeremy Allen White, meanwhile, won his Globe for his tightly wound portrayal of Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto on FX’s “The Bear” — a show and a performance that function as an ode to America’s working class. [Read More]

Konrad Adenauer (Chancellor of West Germany)

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  463 words  |  Martina Birk

Profession: Chancellor of West Germany Biography: Konrad Adenauer served as the first Chancellor of West Germany from 1949 to 1963. He is considered one of the most important political figures in modern German history, known for leading the country's recovery after World War II and helping to establish the European Union. Adenauer studied law and politics at university before working as a lawyer in his hometown of Cologne. During the Weimar Republic, he served as Mayor of Cologne from 1917 to 1933 and was also President of the Prussian State Council. [Read More]

Michael Pollan: This Will Change Your Mind About Psychedelic Drugs

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2343 words  |  Tandra Barner

For years, the field of mental health has been largely barren of meaningful treatment advances. But now, scientists have new hope in the least likely of places: psychedelic drugs. Recent research suggests that certain psychedelic substances can help relieve anxiety, depression, PTSD, addiction and the fear surrounding a terminal diagnosis. “The biggest misconception people have about psychedelics is that these are drugs that make you crazy,” says Michael Pollan, author of the new book How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. [Read More]

Mountains Of Vile Vials | TIME

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  964 words  |  Kelle Repass

Shortly before dusk on April 23, three young agents from the U.S. Customs Service were about to hit the jackpot of their careers. Sitting in a car outside a warehouse in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, the men were looking for Huan (“Danny”) Teng, 38, a Taiwanese believed to be one of America’s kingpins of drug paraphernalia. They never found Teng, but what they discovered inside the building left them breathless. [Read More]

National Hockey League History (Part 2)

 Posted on August 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  41 words  |  Billy Koelling

Wayne Gretzky (63 years old)

1961-01-26 Canadian ice hockey HOF center (Stanley Cup 1984, 85, 87, 88; Hart Memorial Trophy [MVP] 1980–87, 89; Art Ross Trophy [scoring champion] 1981–87, 90, 91, 94; Edmonton Oilers, LA Kings), born in Brantford, Ontario

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