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Study: Skydiving Not Relaxing
Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.
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Veteran skydivers feel less anxious than beginners, but their bodies still release the same amount of stress hormone.
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British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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Positions on economic redistribution correlated with upper-body strength.
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Resarch subjects were better able to will themselves into positive moods while listening to rousing symphonies.
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Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.
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Non-smokers who stayed in non-smoking rooms had cigarette byproducts on their fingers and in their urine the next morning.
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At 18 months, babies who had come into repeated contact with their parents' saliva were 12 percent less likely to have asthma and 37 percent less likely to develop eczema.
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People were 20 percent more likely to choose DNR if it was phrased as "allowing natural death;" 25 percent if they were told it's what most other people choose.
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Kids who were better at reading and math at age seven ended up in a higher socioeconomic class age 42, regardless of what other advantages they had.
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People who spent 20 minutes under UVA-radiating lamps appeared to experience cardiovascular benefits.
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