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So maybe it’s no so surprising that researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that in the brains of experienced meditators practicing loving-kindness meditation, those reward areas were de-activated. “When we truly, selflessly wish for the well-being of others, we’re not getting that same rush of excitement that comes with, say, a tweet from our romantic love interest, because it’s not about us at all,” said Judson Brewer, adjunct professor of psychiatry at Yale now at the University of Massachusetts....

The sharp, streamlined creation took about three years to produce. The long timeline has to do with the fact that Ganfi was starting from scratch in a lot of ways. “Very soon, I realized that there’s no actual know-how, how to work with the cardboard, besides making packages out of it,” says Gafni, “so I started to explore it, and then I figured out a lot of things out of it....

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The repeaters, unburdened by the anxiety of creation, actually improve the clarity of the orator’s rhythm and intonation as they fall into a shared pulse. Orators learn quickly that the sentences with the highest torque are simple and well-metered; Michael Moore had to quickly drop his just-a-regular-guy banter, which in human-microphone-land makes him weak and self-deprecating. And Cornel West pulled the oration of Southern Baptism out of another decade and into the moment....

First spotted by Redditor Leopeva64 (via), this feature is currently available to users in Edge Canary. It’s disabled by default but you can enable it by toggling the “Games button” option under the Appearance menu in Settings. This will add a new Games button on the omnibar. It sits between the Download button and the Web capture button if you have them enabled, of course. Clicking this Games button will launch a vertical panel on the right side of the browser....