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20 potential benefits of losing weight while maintaining muscle tone!!!
Muscle tone can be significantly impacted by weight loss, but how much of an influence depends on a variety of variables. Exercise, diet, and overall body composition can all have an impact on muscle tone, which is the degree of tension or contraction that a muscle exhibits when at rest.
By Charlie James3 years ago in Education
How to Chase Your Dreams and Reinvent Yourself
In 1965, a young man named Tom graduated from college with a degree in English. Soon after, Tom took a job with an insurance company in Connecticut. After working there for seven years, he transitioned to a new role in the industry and started working for an insurance agency. He worked at that insurance agency for the next eight years.
By BURN BRIGHT3 years ago in Education
The Pitfalls of the Pursuit of Happiness
In many cultures around the world, happiness is generally considered to be a positive emotion. But is the pursuit of happiness and “feeling happy” a good thing? Clinical psychologist June Gruber, social psychologist Iris B. Mauss, and researcher Maya Tamir looked into answering a related question: might happiness be dysfunctional at times? The short answer is: it depends.
By BURN BRIGHT3 years ago in Education
Why the future of restaurants runs through the grocery store
It’s Friday night and, judging from the dejected slump of a quartet of would-be diners outside of the legendary Una Pizza Napoletana on the Lower East Side, there are no tables to be had. Around the corner, a similar scene plays out at Nom Wah, the century-old dim sum restaurant on the bend of a crooked street in Chinatown. A few blocks north, at the Momofuku Noodle Bar, the hungry gaze at the eating through a plate glass window. Everything everywhere is booked all at once.
By BURN BRIGHT3 years ago in Education
The “Chosen Ones” Choose Themselves
In 1994, a young woman asked for an order of restraint against her husband and filed for divorce. With no job and little money to live on, she signed up for welfare benefits so that she could afford to care for her baby daughter.
By BURN BRIGHT3 years ago in Education
The Fight is the Reward
It was my senior year and I was pitching against the #3 team in the country, the College of Wooster. The first batter of the game was making my life difficult. He fouled off a pitch. Then another. And another. I threw a ball outside, hoping he would bite on it.
By BURN BRIGHT3 years ago in Education
‘Great news.’ Survey will test counting LGBTQ Ph.D. recipients
Each year, thousands of newly minted U.S. Ph.D. recipients complete the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), providing information about their race, gender, disability status, educational background, postgraduate plans, and more. The long-running census is critical for understanding which groups are underrepresented in the U.S. science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) community. But it has a blind spot, many argue: It can’t say anything about how many Ph.D. recipients are LGBTQ. Starting in July, however, a pilot test will begin to address that issue by introducing new questions about sexual orientation and gender identity.
By BURN BRIGHT3 years ago in Education
