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Sharks Learn New Skills From More Successful Sharks

By Mat McDermott, TreeHugger Perhaps this should be obvious, intuitive... Some really interesting research on sharks' ability to learn new skills is being highlighted by BBC News. Scientists from …

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Secret to Youth: Elderly Bees?

Could observations of bee behavior help us develop new, non-drug treatments for age-related dementia? A new study from Arizona State University, published in the journal Experimental Gerontology, s…

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What Type of Fitness Buddy Is Right for You?

By Gina DeMillo Wagner, Experience Life If there were a way to double your chances for fitness success, would you be interested? How about a technique to make exercise more fun? A tool that autom…

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6 Ways to Hone Your Conversation Skills

By Laine Bergeson and Courtney Helgoe, Experience Life On a sunny day last fall, Taylor Baldry set up a card table and three folding chairs on a well-traveled street corner in Minneapolis. He sta…

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How to Change the Culture of Bullying

When I was in the ninth grade in the 1960s, a gang of four girls I didn’t know cornered me in a stairwell after a late band practice with an iron ball and chain and threatened to beat me up. Why? …

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Stimulating the Social Brain

"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." -Rollo May We are wired to connect to each other. Daniel Golemani's book Social Intelligence has uncovere…

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