Author: basicDave

Top 10 finalists in the 2019 Best Illusion of the Year Contest

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We all want to be happier. We search our lives for the next big idea, the next fancy promotion, or the next person in our life who is going to make it all better — whether it’s a new girlfriend, a new boss, or a new president.
But for more than 2,000 years, the wisest among us — from the Stoic philosophers of ancient Rome to modern pioneers in psychology and mental health — have been telling us that the source of happiness is not without, but within.

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I couldn’t find the service I needed, so I built it for myself. And that was the start.

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For the last 20 years, the future of nuclear power has stood in a high bay laboratory tucked away on the Oregon State University campus in the western part of the state. Operated by NuScale Power, an Oregon-based energy startup, this prototype reactor represents a new chapter in the conflict-ridden, politically bedeviled saga of nuclear power plants.

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Ed Catmull, a founding employee and the former president of Pixar, refers to early-stage ideas for films as “Ugly Babies.” The language is new, but the idea goes back centuries. In 1597, the philosopher Sir Francis Bacon wrote, “As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

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In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche was a man who had known the depths of despair. Nietzsche had lived with a number of health problems, mental health issues, and post-traumatic stress syndrome from serving as a medical orderly in the Franco-Prussian War (during which he had also contracted diphtheria and dysentery). The final straw was that the woman he loved deeply, whom he had proposed to a number of times, had abandoned him.

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Caffeine is the most widely used behaviorally active drug in the world which exerts its activity on central nervous system through adenosine receptors. Worrying data indicate that excessive caffeine intake applies to patients suffering from mental disorders, including depression.

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Most of you are here because you want to start something — a project, a business, a new career, heck maybe a whole new life. I don’t know where you’re at in the process, but I want you to know this one thing I know for certain:
You have no idea how good you can get. You can get scary good. Even if you think you suck right now.

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Ultra efficient hydrogen fueled vehicles may soon be coming to market thanks to this technological breakthrough. In September, researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute for Technology published a paper in Nature detailing their success in creating a safe, clean, inenexpensive, and ultra-efficient new method of splitting water molecules into oxygen.

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For all the years I’ve been in debt, I’ve devoured stories of people who somehow managed to get out of it.

What you’ll find below is a collection of stories, culled from the hundreds of responses, with various motivations, strategies, and outcomes. The sacrifices people made to pay off their debt might not surprise you. But the reaction those same people had to finally paying off that debt likely will.

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