People with anxious dispositions undergo changes in their brains that make it harder for them to distinguish between danger signals and neutral events, according to a study in the March issue of Current Biology. Anxiety seems to heighten plasticity in brain circuits, and that changeability endures even after an event that makes a person anxious....
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Tune in to Trends This Week
Gerald Celente’s “Trends This Week,” a weekly show on the Progressive Radio Network, PRN.fm, airs live each Wednesday at 11 a.m. Trends This Week breaks down essential trends in economics, geopolitics, health and well-being, pop culture and more in classic Celente style. And, if you can’t catch the show live, you can listen 24/7 by accessing Trends This...
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Hotels over-focusing on millennials
Once again, a hotel chain is trying too hard to engage the millennial generation. Marriott’s Moxy Hotels brand is new to the US, opening in New Orleans, San Francisco, Nashville and other locations. These flashy millennial-themed hotels feature smaller guest rooms, an expansive bar scene and plenty of bright, neon lights to draw the attention...
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Small appliances for small living
KitchenAid is rolling out a smaller version of its stand mixer. Called the Artisan Mini Stand Mixer, it weighs 19 pounds and can hold up to 3.5 quarts of batter, enough to make about 60 cookies (KitchenAid’s classic Artisan weighs 26 pounds and can hold five quarts). Why the miniature product? KitchenAid simply is following...
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Opening up the cable box
The US Federal Communications Commission is proposing to break cable and satellite companies’ iron grip on the set-top boxes through which your TV shows arrive. With an “open system” box, viewers could access HBO, Netflix, Hulu, low-power local stations, and other networks and programs that giant telecoms companies won’t carry – all through one appliance....
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The Wright stuff
Ian Wright, a co-founder of Tesla Motors, has a new vision for clean vehicles: not snazzy, high-priced runabouts, but the 2.2 million trucks that now lumber through cities and along highways, belching smoke and wasting fuel. Wright and his team have created a new design of a hybrid electric powertrain that, they say, is 30...
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Sleeping with the ’shrooms
Jae Rhim Lee sees her creation as “a symbol of a new way of thinking about death and the relationship between my body and the environment.” Slip into the Infinity Burial Suit. It’s a body stocking that dresses a corpse. The suit is embroidered with spores of a mushroom that not only digests your body...
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Expect fewer small-business starts
One reason the economic recovery doesn’t feel like one to many US workers is that the rate of new business startups in the US has fallen. In fact, the rate has declined by half – from 16 percent of all businesses in the country in the 1970s to 8 percent now, according to a study...
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War on drugs a miserable failure – and more to come
This was truth-telling time for the Obama administration: On March 2, the State Department issued its annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report for 2016. As usual, the report reflected the extraordinary American obsession with playing judge and jury for the rest of the world, but inadvertently contained some extraordinary official admissions about the utter bankruptcy...