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...home. I put them on and I can't get them on. I try to put these on and it's like a tourniquet ... So I thought, what is this garment? I started to do the research. It is in fact body-shaping underwear and it says things on the website like, "It's power panties." The only thing I could think, truly, is that if women had power, they wouldn't need Spanx. Aren't I right? So I threw them away...
...What's an UnResolution? The whole idea of a resolution is things that you've been doing that you want to try to do better, and I thought especially now, there's so much going on in the world and it's difficult, and people are struggling. And wouldn't we be better off if every New Year's, we thought about the things we did right and we resolved to keep doing them, no matter how wacky they were. For example, sometimes, I admit this even for TIME.com, that I sleep in my clothes. I did last night...
...boring. One racetrack executive said that "if Jimmie would just get out of his car and go over and slap somebody one time, that would help." How do you respond to this? There are people who tune in and like to watch [the NFL's] Chad Ochocinco do his thing, and there are people who get absolutely irritated by that. I have a very strong fan base that respects the way I handle things. I can't change who I am. That would be a disservice to myself...
When the participants woke up about an hour later, they said they hadn't heard a thing. But the test results suggested otherwise. On average, each person did slightly better at remembering the correct locations of the 25 objects whose related sounds had been cued during sleep than those of the other objects. The sounds appeared to have entered the sleeping brain and helped consolidate associated memories...
Commenting on the new paper, Born suggests that using sounds is more effective than smells because it lets you choose the memories you want to promote. "Auditory stimuli have the advantage that they can be very specifically linked to visual stimuli," says Born. "With odors, this kind of thing is not possible...