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The following story is excerpted from TIME's special edition,  The Science of Childhood. When Frances Jensen’s eldest son, Andrew, reached high school, he underwent a transformation. Frances’s calm, predictable child changed his hair color from brown to black and started wearing bolder clothing. It felt as if he turned into an angst-filled teenager overnight. Jensen, now the chair of the neurology department at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, wondered what happened and whether Andrew’s younger brother would undergo the same metamorphosis. So she decided to use her skills as a neuroscientist to explore what was happening under the hood. “I realized I had an experiment going on in my own home,” says Jensen, author of  The Teenage Brain . That was about 10 years ago, when society at large was only beginning to catch up to the idea that the teen brain was not a fully developed adult brain, just with less mileage. For generations, the overarching th

When to eat, drink, sleep, and think deep thoughts. You might think you’re in control of your activities, but your body evolved to follow a natural rhythm.(fact) Sticking closer to that routine can help keep you in good shape. Drink coffee Sipping caffeine is best done early in the day. Taken later, it can reset your body’s clock and prevent sleep. If you’re sure you can take a shot of espresso at 8 p.m. and be snoring by 10, try skipping the caffeine for a few weeks to see what a night of truly good rest feels like. Eat It’s best to eat your biggest meal early, contrary to a typical American day. Insulin,the hormone that regulates metabolism. it peaks in the first half of the day, then steadily reduces. So your blood sugar is less likely to skyrocket after a big breakfast than after a comparable dinner. Sleep Around 8 or 9 p.m., our bodies start to cool down, and we sleep better when we have a low core body temperature. But how much shut-eye is ideal? Studies show that those wh

"Never trying because you were afraid " is the only failure you can't learn from. -fact You’re brainstorming a crazy idea, thinking of quitting your day job, and building a wildly successful business. You want to build your own company, recruit your own talent, and make the world a better place. But deep down, something strong is holding you back. Fear. You’re afraid of failure. You’re not sure of your crazy business idea. You don’t think that you can quit your day job, because your dream of building a million-dollar company might just be wishful thinking. How do you beat your fear and suceed as an entrepreneur Here are five tips to help you: 1. Face your fears. “One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’ t   do .”  — Henry Ford (fact) Entrepreneurship is full of challenges, uncertainties, and difficulties. At some point, while you’re running your business, you’ll get confused, scare

Want A Normal Life? Here's How. "Life offers no guarantees but this much is certain ".-fact   If you clicked on this article because you're okay giving up on your dreams for what's ordinary and predictable there's not much need to read any further, just carry on; it's your choice and you're the only person who has to live with it. Still here? Good. This is about being anything but normal. Our greatest fear is uncertainty. We will do anything to avoid it; lie to ourselves, pretend we're okay with the safe bet that we don't want to make, and store up regrets we hope will magically evaporate. In short, we cast away our dreams and settle for the certainty of ordinary because we fear the uncertainty of extraordinary. We will brilliantly rationalize our decision to step away from our dreams so that we can live with ourselves. You do it, I do it, we all do it; all the time. And the more intelligent you are the greater the risk that you'll

 In 1966, just over 50 years ago, the distinguished Canadian-born anthropologist Anthony Wallace confidently predicted the  fact that there will be a global demise of religion at the hands of an advancing science: 'belief in supernatural powers is doomed to die out, all over the world, as a result of the increasing adequacy and diffusion of scientific knowledge and facts'. Wallace's vision was not exceptional. On the contrary, the modern social sciences, which took shape in 19th-century western Europe, took their own recent historical experience of secularisation as a universal model. An assumption lay at the core of the social sciences, either presuming or sometimes predicting that all cultures would eventually converge on something roughly approximating secular, Western, liberal democracy.-fact Then something closer to the opposite happened. Not only has secularism failed to continue its steady global march but countries as varied as Iran, India, Israel, Algeria and T

" The path to success starts with seeing things as they really are- f act ." There are a lot of "truths" related to business success including: If you don't take care of your customers someone else will. Business is not about selling, it's about relationships. Correlations are not always causations. And last but maybe truest, all of us are smarter than any of us. Each of these is a foundational axiom for advancement in both life and commerce, but there are also lies that people believe that hold them back and limit their abilities. Here are three common lies that unsuccessful people believe. 1. "I have a college degree, so I deserve a job."As obvious as it seems, having any kind of degree is not a guarantee of an employment and that includes a Masters degree or Ph.D. As harsh as it sounds in this hyper-politically correct environment, nobody deserves employment.In our capitalist system, the reason why you don't have an employment is that you&

1.  A breakthrough study from the Institute of Crystallography in Italy has just confirmed that the image of the man on the Shroud of Turin is composed of real blood and in fact a microscopic analysis of blood particles reveals that the blood had to come from someone undergoing torture.  This just further confirms the possible authenticity of the Shroud  2.  Using a recently developed X-ray imaging technology, archaeologists were able to read the inside of a biblical scroll that was in such fragile condition that it could not be unrolled.  The results?  The current manuscripts we have of the book of Leviticus haven't changed in 2,000 years.  The Bible has been unaltered. 3.  Archaeologists have just discovered the location of the fishing village on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee where the Apostles Peter, Andrew, and Philip lived.  A bathhouse was unearthed, as well as the remains of an ancient church that sat over the apostles' birthplace.  4.  As if we needed a

The length of your yawn offers a clue to the weight of your brain and the number of neurons inside. The duration of your yawns can reveal your  brain's weight and how many neurons you have in the outer layer of that all-essential organ, a new study reports. The findings, reported in the journal Biology Letters, suggest scientists could estimate the brain weight of any animal just by timing their yawns. The findings apply to people, too. "The human brain weighs between 1,250–1,450 grams, or roughly 3 pounds," said Andrew Gallup, a Princeton University researcher and one of the world's leading experts on yawning. He co-authored the new paper with Omar Eldakar of the University of Arizona. "Importantly, neither the size of the body nor the anatomical structures specific to yawning (cranium and mandible) are driving these effects, because gorillas, camels, horses, lions, walruses and African elephants all have shorter average yawns than humans," the authors

Beards seem to be everywhere nowadays, but some men just can't grow them. Why not? What goes into growing a great beard? Beards rotate in and out of fashion on some unknowable cosmic schedule, but for many men it's a moot point. Not everyone can grow a beard, and there's not much that science can do about it. The admirably bewhiskered Jules Suvdaltsev has the story in today's DNews dispatch. Most people who find themselves thinking about the issue associate beards with testosterone levels, but that's only part of the story. Testosterone is part of a group of hormones called androgens, which regulate, among other things, male secondary cell characteristics. That covers physical attributes usually associated with men, but which are not directly involved in reproduction. Like beards. But testosterone levels alone don't determine beardiness. Years of research have more-or-less confirmed that a chemical called dihydrotesterone , or DHT, induces beard growth. DHT i

Why Do Human Beings Speak So Many Languages? Language diversity has played a key role in shaping the history of our species, yet we know surprisingly little about the factors shaping this diversity The thatched roof held back the sun’s rays, but it could not keep the tropical heat at bay. As everyone at the research workshop headed outside for a break, small groups splintered off to gather in the shade of coconut trees and enjoy a breeze. I wandered from group to group, joining in the discussions. Each time, I noticed that the language of the conversation would change from an indigenous language to something they knew I could understand, Bislama or English. I was amazed by the ease with which the meeting’s participants switched between languages, but I was even more astonished by the number of different indigenous languages. Thirty people had gathered for the workshop on this island in the South Pacific, and all except for me came from the island, called Makelua, in the nation of Va

You probably know that Googlekeeps track of everything you type into its search bar, just like it scans your email to "analyze your content." But what you may not realize is that Google has also been recording you, as the  Guardian  points out, though not necessarily in the NSA-manner Edward Snowden talked about recently. If you've used Google's voice-control features (normally prompted after saying "OK Google" or hitting a microphone icon), everything you've spoken to the service has been recorded, ostensibly to give you a record like your regular search history and perhaps improve Google's voice recognition. Fortunately, Google does allow you to listen to yourself and clear that history. If you visit Google's History and go to the  Voice & Audio Activity  tab, you can listen to what you've asked Google and delete all the files. You can also change the settings to make sure it doesn't record you again. There have been suggestions 

1. 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women 2. Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is ‘Crash Course’! 3. Bill Gates house was designed using a Macintosh computer. 4. By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet. 5. Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names every month. 6. E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web. 7. For every ‘normal’ webpage, there are five porn pages. 8. In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn’t considered 100% compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*. 9. MySpace reports over 110 million registered users. Were it a country, it would be the tenth largest, just behind Mexico. 10. One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online. 11. The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has exchanged 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000 hours on the mobile phone. 12. The average co