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For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. Max St John, 41, had experienced symptoms of anxiety in the past. He found it hard to enjoy his surroundings or quality time with his family as low-level despair set in. The Work is a four-step process that starts, surprisingly, with gratitude. Gratitude canlift mood,lower stress levels,improve social connectionsandstrengthen immune systems. Chris Johnstone, who co-wrote a book,Active Hope, with Macy in 2012, concurs....

I learned the NATO phonetic alphabet. Now Im learning how to point to every country on a map. Ill neverneedthis information, but it feels cool to know. Heres the best pointless knowledge you’ve got the option to pick up on the app. If you feel addicted to any time-wasting mobile apps, Tinycards is a great replacement. The minimum time you need for a useful Tinycards session is about 30 seconds....

These gifts were unusualdecommissioned tanks. Tanks were first rolled out in 1916, during the First World War. Almost immediately they caught the publics imagination. People were fascinated by this new piece of military hardware. Its robust construction and seemingly impenetrable armor gave them a feeling of invincibility. Mark VI Female tank in Ashford, Kent. Photo credit:Peter Trimming/Wikimedia The war was economically devastating to all parties involved. It cost Britain$47 billionequivalent to $1....

The Monadnock Building was built during a period when bricks were the building material of choice. Bricks are easy to manufacture, they are cheap and versatile. There was one problem, however, with bricksthey are very heavy. If you make a building too tall with bricks, it will collapse under its own weight. Modern buildings, hence, use columns and beams made of reinforced concrete or steel to bear the weight. The walls are merely curtains to keep the elements out....

The British wanted to connect their great empire with airship routes. For this purpose they constructed two large helium-filled airships. The USS Macon flying over New York Harbor, circa summer 1933. The US Navy was not interested in ferrying passengers. They wanted to see if the airship could carry fighter planes instead. It sounds likealien technology, except, it had been already tried before. The British came up with the idea first during the Great War itself....

The difference between an argument and a fight is that in a fight, you say things youll regret. To make this trick work, you better drill the Im being recorded feeling into your head. Picture the last fight where you said something you regret. (Not the last time you acted in righteous fury that still makes you proud. Were only talking about fights that you wish youhadnthad.) Now picture a video camera pointed at you....

September will bring a ton of new movies and TV shows to HBO, includingThe Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, as well asLove Actually, and the directors cut of the 1987 classic,Robocop. However, if youve been waiting to have aPsychomarathon, now is the time.Psycho I,II, andIIIare leaving HBO in September, as isMean Girls,Deadpool 2, andWeekend at Bernies, among others. Heres the full rundown of whats coming and going from HBO in September:...

Strength training for women is spoken about in code words. Were supposed to fear getting bulky and instead want to build long, lean muscles. This is patriarchal bullshit that obscures how our bodies actually work. Its not new bullshit, either. Just look atthis articleby powerlifter and historian Jan Todd on one of historys great strongwomen, Katie Sandwina Brumbach. That was her job. I mean, clearly, there are fit women out there with every conceivable body composition....

Wave goodbye to unnecessary context menu options Lets try an experiment. Right-select any of the tabs at the top of your regular Chrome web client. When is the last time youreallyused this method to open a new tab, anyhow? If Chromes developers have their say, then these options are getting pared down significantly in Chrome 78. (you might probablydo even betterwith a few tweaks of your own.) If so, its time to change your credentials....

Anne Frank wasnt the only teenager who lost her childhood to war. Probably hundreds of them kept diaries where they documented their everyday lives, their sufferings, their hopes. But it would be unfair to forget the rest. Rutka Laskier Rutka Laskier was 14 years old when she began writing her diary. She was able to write for only three months, before she was whisked away to Auschwitz. Rutkas story has many parallels with that of Anne Frank....

When my editortweeted a pitch for casseroles, I lapsed into snark mode. I was raised on soul food, I muttered. Casseroles are not soul food. My favorite dessertbanana puddingis a quintessential soul food dessert. It is also a casserole both in method and receptacle. The method involves combining various foods, often in layers, to be cooked in a slow oven. The receptacle is the casserolea French word that made its way into English by 1708,scholarssay....

Every secondhand enthusiast has that one bargain that could have gone horribly wrong. For me, it was the couch by the dumpster outside my on-campus apartment during college. We sure didnt check that thing for bed bugs. It was a solid couch and nobody got a rash. But older, wiser me wouldnt have taken a chance on a dumpster couch. To put it simply, they are too gross. Mattresses Two words:Bed bugs....

), but people can be a little skittish about heating (and potentially burning) dairy. Making cheese sous-vide eliminates those concerns, turning it into a virtually stress-free activity. Add your dairy and acid to a sous-vide bag, and place the bag in the water. you’re free to vacuum seal it, or just clip it over the side. Let everything sit for a spell so curds can form. Strain out the curds through a cheese cloth-lined colander....