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Research shows that regularly challenging your brain with varied cognitive tasks can sharpen focus, improve recall, and support long-term mental agility. Just a few minutes of deliberate mental exercise each day is enough to make a measurable difference.
Each day brings a fresh set of six puzzles covering six core cognitive domains. Complete all six and you'll receive a Daily Cognitive Score from 0–100, calculated from your accuracy, speed, and consistency across every game.
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What Are the Long Term Consequences of Yelling at Your Kid?
Many well-meaning parents downplay the traumatic impact raising one’s voice has on a child’s development. But far from harmless punishment or stress relief for adults, shouting, insults, and verbal threats can inflict lasting psychological damage on children.
Rather than chalking screaming up to letting off steam, we must recognize the destructive influence it has on vulnerable young minds. Verbal attacks early in life can forever alter a child’s trajectory, robbing them of self-confidence and relationship skills that echo for decades. Even occasionally losing control hurts kids in profound, enduring ways we dismiss far too casually.
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What We Know About OpenAI’s Q* Project
Q* (pronounced “Q-star”) is described as an alleged unreleased project by OpenAI, focusing on the application of artificial intelligence in logical and mathematical reasoning.
As of November 2023, there were reports suggesting that certain OpenAI employees raised concerns to the company’s board, indicating that Q* might represent a significant advancement towards the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Understanding the Pig Butchering Scam
In the ever-evolving landscape of financial fraud, a particularly insidious scam has emerged, known colloquially as the “Pig Butchering Scam.” This scam, blending elements of social engineering and investment fraud, has ensnared numerous victims, draining significant financial resources and leaving a trail of devastation in its wake.
Putting in the Work: The Essential Ingredient for a Lasting Relationship
The initial stages of a relationship are often marked by intense emotions and an overwhelming sense of euphoria – commonly known as the honeymoon phase. Everything seems perfect, and the couple feels an unshakeable bond. However, as this phase wa [Read more…] about Putting in the Work: The Essential Ingredient for a Lasting Relationship
Linkage
Inside The Demise Of Troy Leon Gregg, The Man Who Escaped Death Row Before Being Murdered That Very Night – All That’s Interesting
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI – The Verge
What’s So Great about Akira Kurosawa’s Movies? – Ned Hardy
This sleek money clip comes with a fixed blade knife built into it, for when you never know – Amazon
The Four Things That Make Practically Everyone Feel Loved – Quartz
Millennials say they need $525,000 a year to be happy. A Nobel prize winner’s research shows they’re not wrong – Business Insider
How to take things less personally: Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits – Psyche
11 Tips for Anyone Who Doesn’t Know How to Relax – SELF
How to Stop People Pleasing – Shondaland
Whatever Happened To Actress Cynthia Rhodes? – Ned Hardy
Your best weapon against fighting bad breath – Amazon
Here’s What a $1 Million Retirement Looks Like in America – WSJ
Rethinking ‘She’s All That’: The Problematic Legacy of Teen Makeover Movies – Wanderer
Use this Guide to Get your Shit Together – Brent Huras
A nun and a monk fell in love, quit their monastic lives and got married – Upworthy
8 Famous Actors Who Have Literally Never Been Good In A Movie – What Culture
15 Short Male Celebrities Who Challenged the Unrealistic Beauty Standards of Hollywood – Bright Side
Are You Really Super Busy, Or Are You Just Super Disorganized? – Mel Magazine
The Dumping Grounds
The Risks of Joint Purchases for Unmarried Couples
When considering joint purchases in a relationship, particularly significant investments like real estate, automobiles, and other substantial assets, it’s crucial to weigh the risks and implications carefully. While buying together can seem like a symbol of commitment or a step towards a shared future, the financial and legal complexities can be daunting, especially for couples who are not married. Here are some key reasons why it’s generally not advisable to make such substantial joint purchases unless you are married:
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What Exactly Do People Mean By “Spacing” In Basketball
Good floor spacing means those teams have shooters who can shoot the 3 very well forcing defenders to stick closer to them and further away from the paint/rim
It does not necessarily mean shooting above league average from three; volume is just as important as percentage. If a player shoots well from three but only manages 1-2 attempts per game despite being always wide open they are not a floor spacer.
Rajon Rondo is an example of this. Also doesn’t have to be restricted to 3PT shooting if it concerns big men; Nikola Jokic is a top notch floor spacer.
Good spacing makes it difficult for defenders to play help defense.
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Picture of the Day
Vasily Blokhin, Joseph Stalin’s head executioner. Having personally killed tens of thousands of people in his career, including 7,000 Polish officers in under a month during the “Katyn Massacre,” Blokhin was the most prolific murderer in human history
Along with a team of about thirty NKVD men from Moscow, mainly drivers and prison guards, Blokhin arrived at the NKVD prison in Kalinin (Tver) and set himself up in a sound-proofed cellar room that had a sloping floor for drainage. He then put on his special uniform, consisting of a leather cap, long leather apron, and elbow-length gloves.
On a table next to him was a briefcase filled with his own personal Walther PPK pistols, for Blokhin, a true artist at his trade, would use no one else’s tools but his own.
After the prisoner’s identity was verified, he was brought handcuffed into the cellar room where Blokhin awaited in his long apron, like some horrible butcher.
One guard later testified: “The men held [the prisoner’s] arms and [Blokhin] shot him in the base of the skull…that’s all”. Blokhin worked fast and efficiently, killing an average of one man every three minutes during the course of ten-hour nights – the killings were always done at night so that the bodies could be disposed of in darkness.
