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...Some may have thought that the last vestiges of Puritanism in Massachusetts were repealed when Mormon Governor Mitt Romney signed a bill allowing for Sunday alcohol sales. They were wrong. The law still prohibits selling on Monday if Christmas is on Sunday. All of you who stayed in the Bay State over the break are suckers. Watch out for December 26, 2011. You’d better stock up.1.Top-10 lists. They’re uncreative, don’t flow well for the reader, and are padded with frivolous items to squeeze out a full 10. They are also...
...that you've got your body running along smoothly, are there any mental gymnastics you can do to keep dementia at bay? The evidence is provocative but not terribly compelling. There's no question that you can improve your ability to remember names or other bits of information by practicing memory tasks, just as practice will help you learn a new instrument or another language. A number of researchers have proposed that a lifetime of such efforts could allow you to build up a healthy cognitive reserve to offset the declines of old age, though the idea remains theoretical...
...flash but more typically results from steady cogitation. Multitasking, for all its seeming efficiency, can exact a heavy toll on the quality of our output. Daily meditation physically transforms the cerebral cortex. Physical exercise may be as important as mental gymnastics in keeping Alzheimer's disease at bay. Baby Einstein-type videos make a poor substitute for human interaction in stimulating a tender young mind. And perhaps the most unexpected and comforting, recent research confirms that the human brain retains an astonishing degree of plasticity and capacity for learning throughout life. In some respects, our mental performance, despite...
...mental processing; they are just happening too fast for the athlete to realize they are going on. "It's not the conscious kind of processing, the kind where you're thinking about how to control your body," says Jeff Simons, a sports psychologist at California State University, East Bay. "Our conscious brain cannot keep up with the speed of information processing necessary to perform a high-level skill...
...combination of ginkgo, phosphatidylserine (a molecule essential to the health of neural-cell membranes) and omega-3 fats (found in fish oils). But Khalsa emphasizes that nine-tenths of the mental boost people seek can be had by eating well, staying mentally and physically active and keeping stress at bay...