Welcome to this week’s Further! Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store:
- Should you really take your vitamins?
- Smart ways to get better sleep
- The truth about the best age to start a business
- How to set goals for personal growth
- Changing your brain through meditation
All that plus a few pop culture references and several shockingly bad puns. Enjoy!
Keep going-
Brian Clark
Further
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A Bitter Pill
The National Institute of Health spent $2.4 billion studying vitamins and supplements only to find out they really don’t work. In fact, many can be dangerous.
Do Vitamins and Supplements work? Two Decades of Studies Say No
Step On
Wait, is it possible to walk the wrong way? Apparently so. Walking the wrong way can lead to wasted effort or even injury, not to mention ridicule. Here are the 10 walking technique mistakes to avoid.
Your To Doze List
If you’re fond of saying, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead”, well, that may be happening a lot faster than you anticipated. Here are some great tips on how to sleep better — along with the best way to implement them.
This Is How To Sleep Better: 5 Secrets From Neuroscience
Under Pressure
Since most people can’t feel high blood pressure it’s considered the “silent killer,” because it causes a large percentage of heart attacks and strokes. The good news is that most of us can manage our blood pressure and reduce it naturally to improve heart health.
Lower Your Blood Pressure Naturally
Taxing Travel
For the millions of people who expect to get money back from Uncle Sam this year, consider spending it on travel. Here are some ideas for what to do with this year’s tax refund.
10 Ways to Spend Your Tax Refund this Year if You Love to Travel
Toxic Workplace
New research finds that too many modern workplaces are grim reapers inflicting a fatal amount of stress on our bodies and minds. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford, is ringing the alarm that job stress and poor management is literally killing us.
Stanford Professor: The Workplace is Literally Killing Us
Generation Startup
Forget the idea of the hoodie-wearing millennial who makes billions before screwing up royally and ends up testifying before congress. Most successful founders are older, and the most entrepreneurial bunch is Generation X.
New Research Shows Successful Founders Are Far Older than the Valley Stereotype
Goooaaalll!
Setting goals for your own personal development can be an effective way to grow emotionally and intellectually. They can also help you to stay mentally sharp as any lifetime learner can tell you.
How to Set and Measure Personal Development Goals
Meditation is Not What You Think
It turns out that meditation and mindfulness training are more than just stress relievers: They also, according to scientific research, physically change the structure of the brain and the ways in which it reacts to stimuli.
Meditation Changes Your Brain In These 7 Ways, According To Science
Total Recall
In a DARPA-funded study, researchers extracted memory-encoding electrical signals directly from a group of human volunteers while they performed a memory task. When they injected the signals back during recall, it boosted the volunteers’ performance by roughly 37 percent — a shockingly large effect.
This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent
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