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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Links to Your World, Tuesday, January 10

Dreaming is an essential part of understanding, organizing and retaining what we learn. Time reports.


"A particular mind-set or belief about one's body or health may lead to improvements in disease symptoms as well as changes in appetite, brain chemicals and even vision, several recent studies have found, highlighting how fundamentally the mind and body are connected" (WSJ reports).




WSJ: "The Texas Longhorns football program—just football; not basketball, baseball or anything else—is worth $805 million. To put this into perspective, the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars recently sold for about $45 million less."


Try "the phone stack" at your next dinner outing: "It works like this: as you arrive, each person places their phone facedown in the center of the table. As the meal goes on, you’ll hear various texts and emails arriving… and you’ll do absolutely nothing. You’ll face temptation—maybe even a few involuntary reaches toward the middle of the table—but you’ll be bound by the single, all-important rule of the phone stack. Whoever picks up their phone is footing the bill." (HT: John Erskine)


This man wants "three-throwing" to be the next WWJD bracelet. In his video, the oddest thing is the before-and-after photo: Under one pic is the question: "Christian?" in the next photo the man is "three-throwing" and the caption reads "Christian." Who knew identifying a true Christian was so easy?

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