habit-forming

Natural Insomnia Treatments - Kiss Those Pills Goodbye

Insomnia sufferers will many times just reach for their bottle of sleeping pills without attempting to figure out why they either can’t fall asleep or why they can’t stay asleep....

Disrupting Search: Live Search CashBack, Engagement Mapping, and more

Last week, in a memo to employees, Microsoft President Kevin Johnson outlined plans for Microsoft’s continued push into the online services business: We have been executing against the core...

Tamiflu alert

The Standard - Worried patients pushing doctors to prescribe the anti-flu drug Tamiflu could be leaving themselves more open to the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus. Abusing Tamiflu - the ultimate anti-...

Secrecy Is Contagious

A university that covers up its racial data will also, if the University of Oregon is typical, cover up, or attempt to cover up, its financial data.I have written before about University of Oregon...

HK at centre of global drugs scam

The Standard - Hong Kong is at the centre of a scam channeling counterfeit drugs from the mainland abroad, according to an industry insider. Counterfeiters have moved from lifestyle drugs including...

Nonaddictive Morphine?

University of California at San Francisco researchers say they've genetically engineered mice that can receive morphine on a regular basis without developing tolerance or physical...

Identify and Kill your Food Cravings

If we examine them closely enough, our food cravings tell us a lot about our current state of health and well-being. In fact, it can be a very powerful and life-changing exercise to purposefully...

Happiness Is Habit-Forming--The More You Have, the More You Need

The Washington Post reports in its Science section that Americans on average need two happy events to make up for one negative event. On the other hand, after one negative event Japanese people need...

The Power of Habitual Habit Forming

Habit forming is a good...um...HABIT to get into! However, it's only a good idea if your habits take you towards your goals, rather than away from them.

The Insomniac's Guide to a Good Night's Sleep

Sleep: that magical time between evening and morning when the body relaxes and rejuvenates. Unfortunately, for nearly 40% of Americans, this time is usually filled with tossing, turning, and frequent...