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Study finds suppressing emotions can hurt

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I have heard the same thing through so many articles and books.  One of the most basic techniques to manage emotional mind is by handling the emotion that needs venting.  The process is easier to talk about than actually put into practice.  I have found it necessary to build one's lifestyle around this principle.  I [...]

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Book Review: The Brain Wash: A Powerful, All-Natural Program to Protect Your Brain Against Alzheimer’s, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Parkinson’s, and Other Diseases

I enjoyed reading the BrainWash.  Nutrition books have similar content and if you have read a few good nutrition and prevention books in recent years, the BrainWash will read easily for you.  The overall health is reviewed in terms of the bodily systems and the causes for problems.  The information is very standard but organized [...]

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Damn Interesting: Steely-Eyed Hydronauts of the Mariana

*********************************************** Damn Interesting is a great site with one flaw that finding damn interesting information is harder than imagined thus infrequent posts.  The whole idea of a valley under the ocean being 7 miles deep is fantastic.  Is it really a lifeless area?  If I was an alien from another planet with need [...]

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WrittenbyCush Edition Four – July 17 to July 24, 2009

This edition probably will not show the underlying changes I am making but they are taking place.  I am still doing book reviews and critical writing based on worthy articles but also increasing the number.  My choice articles are becoming clearer as a group and over the next few editions should appear as a permanent [...]

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Book Review: A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

I speed-read A Mind of Its Own and somewhere about 1/3 of the reading I stopped asking myself if the writer was a woman.  I checked the back jacket for her photo as I thought I had seen and yes.  Women can write differently than men which is no surprise since we communicate very differently [...]

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Left brain versus Right brain

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I have taken tests about left and right brain and the results have consistently been I am right in the middle.  I have no dominant side.  I think it is fair to attribute the state to my parents:  My father was extremely left and my mother was extremely right.  I took the test mentioned on [...]

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What Is A Sommelier?

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This picture is actually a photograph and looks great.  The winery name Merryvale can be seen against the back wall and the link at the bottom can take you to a short blog post about.  However, I picked the photo to make a brief point here.  I actually found a very similar photo in the [...]

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How to Eliminate Racism

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Eliminating racism article here is part one of series but makes an interesting point.  I had not thought of racism in terms of elements besides race.  Racism is a common phenomenon worldwide and manifests itself uniquely based on the local culture.  I have always thought prejudice in general is a fascinating subject.  People have strong [...]

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Region is Not Important; Wine Drinkers Say

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This article is of great benefit to people in the wine business.  The most important thing about wine is what the consumers consider it to be not what the marketers wish it to be.  The people involved in the wine business would like to define wine by whatever helps to sell the bottles.  The shape [...]

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Rest assured that Obama is no socialist

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