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One of the best feelings in the world is losing your attachment to yourself.
So much of our time is spent in self-focused ways. What happens if I do this? Or that? Doubt. Fear. Self-judgement. The judgement of others against ourselves. Planning. Scheming. It’s a whole lot of I, I, and I. You get the point.
Yet there’s a paradox: all of this self-focus is not very good for ourselves. Studies show that self-absorption is associated with clinical depression, personality disorders, and anxiety.

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As often as we talk about the benefits of sleep, more than a third of Americans are not getting the proper amount of shut-eye. Instead, we push aside our rest to complete more work, hang out with friends, or—let’s be real—binge another episode of Succession. But even though most of us are still yawning into our coffee cups, taking a nap might be the cure to combat those midday crashes because of its health benefits.
If the thought of adding one more thing to your already busy schedule is making you stress out, you can consider naps as a natural way to recharge for the day. “Taking a nap can enhance your sleep cycle, regulate your sympathetic nervous system, help you think and let go of things that are causing you stress, and be used as a circadian marker to help your body understand where you are in the 24-hour cycle.

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The molecule responsible for hangovers is ethanol,
which we colloquially refer to as alcohol.
Ethanol is present in all alcoholic beverages, and generally speaking,
the more ethanol, the greater the potential for a hangover.
The symptoms and severity can vary depending on weight, age,
genetics, and other factors.
But still, hangovers generally share some common— and unpleasant— features.
So how exactly does alcohol cause a hangover?
And is there any way to reliably prevent one?
Alcohol slows down the communication between neural cells.
After someone has had their last drink,
as the concentration of alcohol in the blood drops back to zero,
the brain rebounds from sedation and swings in the other direction,
entering a hyperactive state.
This may lead to the tremors or rapid heartbeat associated with hangovers.
It also makes sleep shorter and less restful than normal.
But these effects are just the beginning—
alcohol impacts so many of the body’s processes,
throwing delicate balances off-kilter.
And even the most familiar hangover symptoms have surprising contributors.
For example, alcohol disrupts levels of many hormones.
One of those hormones is cortisol.
Normally, fluctuating cortisol levels help regulate wakefulness
throughout the day and night.
So the disruption in cortisol during a hangover
may cause people to feel groggy or disoriented.
Another hormone alcohol interferes with is vasopressin,
which normally decreases the volume of urine made by the kidneys.
By decreasing levels of vasopressin,
alcohol causes people to pee more and become dehydrated.
Dehydration can lead to thirst, dry mouth, weakness, lightheadedness, and headache,
one of the most common hangover symptoms.
In addition to dehydration, hangover headaches can result
from alcohol’s influence on chemical signaling in the brain,
especially on neurotransmitters involved in pain signaling.
Alcohol can also damage mitochondria,
which are responsible for producing the ATP that gives us energy.
This may contribute to the fatigue, weakness, and mood disturbances
experienced during a hangover.
Meanwhile, alcohol stimulates the immune system,
leading to inflammation that can damage cells within the brain,
affect mood, and impair memory.
And it can irritate the gastrointestinal tract
and inflame the lining of the stomach and intestines.
Alcohol may also slow down stomach emptying,
which could lead to increased production of gastric acid.
This is why alcohol can cause stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting.
Alcoholic drinks also contain other substances that are produced
during the fermentation process that give the drink its specific flavor.
Some evidence suggests that one of these, methanol,
is particularly bad for hangovers.
The body doesn’t start metabolizing methanol
until it’s done processing ethanol.
And when it does, the toxic metabolites of methanol
may potentially worsen the hangover symptoms.
Beverages that are closer to pure ethanol, such as gin and vodka,
may cause fewer hangover effects.
Meanwhile, the presence of flavoring ingredients in beverages
like whiskey, brandy, and red wine,
may make these kinds of alcohol cause more hangover symptoms.
So, the choice of alcoholic beverage matters,
but any of them can cause hangovers, simply because they all contain alcohol.
So, do common hangover remedies actually work?
Drinking water and electrolyte beverages can help reduce symptoms
related to dehydration.
And eating— especially carbs— can help replenish the glucose levels
alcohol reduces.
But ultimately, the only sure way to prevent a hangover
is to drink alcohol in moderation or not at all.

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How to 80/20 Your Life
You can get the results you want with less. It’s all about identifying where to make the split.
In 1906 there was an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto. One day Pareto noticed that every year, 20% of the pea pods in his garden produced approximately 80% of the peas.
This got him thinking about economic output on a larger scale. Sure enough, he began to find that in various industries, societies and even companies, 80% of the production often came from the 20% most productive faction.
This became known as the Pareto Principle, or what is now often referred to as the 80/20 Principle.
The 80/20 Principle states that 80% of the output or results will come from 20% of the input or action.
In terms of time management, they often found that 20% of their time created 80% of their productivity, and that 20% of their employees created 80% of the value.
The examples go on and on. And of course, nobody was actually there with a yardstick measuring out exactly 80% and 20% for all of these items, but the approximate 4-to-1 ratio popped up constantly. Whether it was actually 76/24 or 83/17 is irrelevant.
The 80/20 Principle became a popular management tool that was used widely to increase efficiency and effectiveness within businesses and industries.
It’s still widely taught today.
But few people thought to apply the 80/20 Principle to everyday life or the ramifications it could have.
For instance:
What are the 20% of your possessions you get the most value out of?
What do you spend 20% of your time doing that gives you 80% of your happiness?
Who are the 20% of people you’re close to who make you the happiest?
What are the 20% of the clothes you wear 80% of the time?
What’s the 20% of food you eat 80% of the time?
Chances are these are easy questions for you to answer. You’ve just never considered them before.
And once you’ve answered them, you can easily focus on increasing the efficiencies in your life. For instance, the 80% of people you spend time with who only add 20% of the pleasure in your life (spend less time with them). The 80% of crap you use 20% of the time (throw it out or sell it). The 80% of the clothes you wear 20% of the time (same thing).
Identifying the 20% of the food you eat 80% of the time will probably explain whether you keep a healthy diet or not and how healthy it is. Hey, who needs to follow a diet? Just make sure to switch to where the 20% of food you eat 80% of the time is healthy.
When I first considered how the 80/20 Principle applied to my own life, I instantly realized a few things.
A few of my hobbies (television shows and video games) accounted for 80% of my time, but only brought me 20% of my fulfillment.
I didn’t enjoy a few of my friends who I spent 80% of my time with (hence I was not happy in my social life).
80% of what I spent my money on was not useful or healthy for my lifestyle.
Recognizing these things eventually inspired some hefty changes in my choices and my lifestyle. I dropped video games and television for one. I made efforts to identify other friends to spend more time with, and I paid more attention to what I bought with my money.
And of course, the 80/20 Principle can still be applied to productivity at work.
What tasks do you spend 80% of the time doing that bring in 20% of the returns (i.e., checking email over and over, writing memos, taking a long time to make basic and unimportant decisions, etc.)?
What is the 20% of your work that gets you 80% of the credit and recognition from your team or boss?
And finally, you can apply the 80/20 Principle to your emotional life and relationships as well. What are the 20% of behaviors that cause 80% of the problems in your relationships? What are 20% of the conversations that create 80% of the intimacy with your partner?
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We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril.

In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.

Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.

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In the early 1960s, Michael Rockefeller vanished somewhere off the coast of Papua New Guinea. His disappearance shocked the nation and prompted a manhunt of historic proportions. Years later, the true fate of the heir to the Standard Oil fortune has been uncovered — and it’s more disturbing than anyone at the time imagined.

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In recent days, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has identified cases of deadly avian influenza in U.S. flocks and put the poultry industry on high alert. At the same time, an outbreak was confirmed in a backyard flock of birds in Fauquier County, Virginia.

In December 2014, avian influenza (also known as bird flu or HPAI H5) had spread in the U.S. for the first time since 2004. Since that December, more than 40 million turkeys and chickens have been killed by the virus.

This is a worrisome time for many backyard chicken farmers. Many people are unsure how best to care for their chickens during this time. We have compiled the latest information on bird flu so you have everything you need to keep your chickens safe during this endemic time.

We can rattle off Elon Musk’s accomplishments in our sleep: co-founder of monetary giant PayPal; founder of Tesla, the electric car company that is literally changing the world; and founder of SpaceX, the company that is trying to take us out of this world and colonize another. We can also absentmindedly rattle off a stream of adjectives that describe him: innovator, leader, genius, visionary, futurist, entrepreneur.

But can we describe why Musk is the way he is? And can we not only quantify those things that make Musk so successful, but also begin to embody them in our own lives? This might be a little bit more difficult to do, but I think it's possible.

What can you do with a can of it? Lubricate M-16s, catch bigger fish, de-ice door locks, clean turtles, repel pigeons, remove dog shit, make a flame-thrower, and a bunch of other things you probably never thought of.
If you could take the American spirit which is equal parts Daniel Boone, Chuck Yeager, and Elon Musk—and distill it into an aerosol, it would be a blue-and-yellow can of WD40. A 1983 survey revealed that 4 in every 5 American homes had a can of WD40 in them.For more than 60 years, we’ve been relying on the 40th attempt of a Water Displacement formula to fix, well, whatever needs fixing. The WD40 website promotes dozens of uses for their product, as well as a list of 2,000 uses submitted by actual users. Some are genius. Some are just plain wacky. And some are stupid as hell.

The story of WD40 begins in 1953, when the fledgling Rocket Chemical Company—all three employees—set out to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for the aerospace industry. Working out of a tiny lab in San Diego, it took them 40 attempts to perfect a water-displacement formula. And so Water Displacement 40 came to be. An aerospace contractor named Convair first used the product to protect the outer skin of the Atlas Missile, which had external steel “balloon” fuel tanks that were so thin and delicate that they had to remain pressurized even when empty to keep from collapsing. Over time, Convair employees began sneaking the stuff home for their own uses. By 1958, the product was commercially available.

There have been all sorts of guesses about what exactly is in WD40, but the company isn’t saying. In 2009, Wired Magazine sent some to a laboratory to have it analyzed. The verdict? Fish oil, Vaseline, and “the goop inside homemade lava lamps.” Fact is, nobody knows. The formula has never been patented, apparently from fear somebody would find out. Instead, it’s a closely guarded trade secret locked up in a bank vault in San Diego.
By 1960, the company more than doubled in size, growing to seven people, and sold an average of 45 cases per day from the trunks of their cars to hardware and sporting-goods stores in the San Diego area.

The small-niche nature of the business began to change in 1961, when Hurricane Carla struck the U.S. Gulf Coast. WD-40 Employees came in on a Saturday to produce extra product to meet the needs of disaster victims, to recondition flood- and rain-damaged vehicles and equipment. Before long, it spread like wild fire into American households and industry.
In 1969, the Rocket Chemical Company was renamed for WD40, which by then was its sole product. Early versions of the can show a rocket on the label. But by the time of the name change, it was long gone. It’s not just for rockets anymore. During the Vietnam war, packages containing the spray were being sent to soldiers to keep their finicky M-16s cycling.
For years, the number one complaint about the product was that people lost the little red straw that came with each can. In 2005, the company introduced the foldable Smart Straw to solve this problem.

Some extremely weird uses for the product have been reported over the years. Police once used WD40 to remove a naked burglar who had become wedged inside of ductwork. It was used to help pull a boa constrictor from pipes on the underside of a bus. A pet owner used it to free his parakeet—and himself—from sticky fly paper.
The unusual use most of us are likely aware of is as a fish attractant. According to the company, customers call in all the time claiming that they’ve caught their biggest fish ever after spraying hooks or lures with WD40 and thus assume that the product must have fish oil in it. But that is not the case, say the owners, and they do not recommend using the spray as a fish attractant.
Some tout WD40 as a waterproofer for boots and shoes. It’s also recommended to stop wicker chairs from squeaking. Some...

On Feb. 14, sweethearts of all ages will exchange cards, flowers, candy, and more lavish gifts in the name of St. Valentine. But I can tell you that at the root of our modern holiday is a beautiful fiction. St. Valentine was no lover or patron of love.

Valentine’s Day, in fact, originated as a liturgical feast to celebrate the decapitation of a third-century Christian martyr, or perhaps two. So, how did we get from beheading to betrothing on Valentine’s Day?