Here are seven principles of Warren Buffet on living a life of simplicity and happiness.
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Even with all of the water in the earth's oceans, we desalinate less than half a percent of it to help meet the world's freshwater demands. We currently use on the order of 4,000 cubic kilometers of freshwater a year, and overall there's enough water to go around. There is increasing regional scarcity, though.
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Creating and editing knols. An overview of how to get text into your knol and some basic editing and publishing techniques.
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Both mindfulness and psychoanalysis are disciplines of cultivating self-knowledge. They should not be mistaken or substituted for each other, but they can support each other. Mindfulness includes many forms but consists of being present in the moment and being aware of one's physical and mental experience in the moment. It is practiced often alone, with intermittent sessions with a teacher and in group retreats. Psychoanalysis was first developed by Sigmund Freud and has been continually revised in the past 100 years. It is both a science of human psychological life and a therapeutic practice to help alleviate human suffering and facilitate growth and development. What follows is a series of reflections about the relationship between the two disciplines.
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Google has just launched Knol to the public, dubbed by many as the search giant’s Wikipedia killer. My first reaction: not so fast. While Knol offers a way for anyone to create content about any subject, there are a few big differences.
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The turbulence of the U.S. economy has lots of people railing against capitalism itself, and with good reason: capitalism is inherently turbulent. That’s why the legendary economist Joseph Schumpeter called it “creative destruction.” Not only must eggs be broken to make an omelet, but sometimes people may decide they want their omelets made with no eggs at all.
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The electrification of the automobile is not only inevitable, advocates and experts say, it is essential because plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles offer our best chance to address global warming, achieve energy security and move us beyond oil.
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Physics & Society, The journal of the 46,000-member American Physical Society, just published “Climate Sensitivity Revisited,” by Viscount Christopher Monckton. Monckton is an avowed man-made warming skeptic, and former science advisor to the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
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Europeans clearly do things differently from us. Yet their ‘smaller’ lives seem in many ways richer and fuller. I’ve begun to notice some of those differences that we might do well to consider. Here are five that really struck me:
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How do you get an unwilling partner to make a commitment to you? Relationship experts Gay and Katie Hendricks offer their best advice for anyone trying to solve a partner's fear of commitment.
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