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.... NUTRITION: Intermittent Fasting 101 — The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To Fasting Healthy Intermittent fasting (IF) is currently one of the world's most popular health and fitness trends in America. People are using it to lose weight, improve their health, destress and simplify their lifestyles. Many studies show that it can have powerful effects on your body and brain and may even help you live longer (1, 2, 3). This is the ultimate beginner's guide to healthy intermittent fasting. What Is Intermittent Fasting (IF)? Intermittent fasting (IF) is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It doesn’t specify which foods you should eat but rather when you should eat them. In this respect, it’s not a diet in the conventional sense of the word, but it can be,  more accurately described as an eating pattern. Common intermittent fasting methods involve daily 16-hour fasts or fasting for 24 hours, at least, twice per week. Fasting ha...

Down A Quantum Rabbit Hole Anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff believes tiny structures in our cells called microtubules could explain consciousness. Steve Craft Fellow scientists labeled him a crackpot. Now Stuart Hameroff’s quantum consciousness theories are getting support from unlikely places. Stuart Hameroff is an impish figure — short, round, with gray hair and a broad, gnomic face. His voice is smoke — deep and granular, rumbling with the weight of his 70 years. For more than two decades, he’s run a scientific conference on consciousness research. He turns up each day in rumpled jeans and short-sleeved shirts. The effect is casual bordering on slovenly. But up close, he is in charge, and to his critics, he comes off as pugnacious. He may not care so much about how he’s dressed. He cares a great deal about how he and his theories are addressed. Hameroff is best known for serving as a kind of gadfly in the fields of neuroscience and philosophy. He emerged in 1994 from the windo...

Searching for the Sandman The remarkable brain waves of long-term high-level meditators  Generations of scientists have tried to explain why we sleep. The answer may rest in the most primitive of brains. Hans Berger could do nothing as the huge field gun rolled toward him. In 1892, the 19-year-old German had enlisted for military service. One spring morning, while pulling heavy artillery for a training session,Berger's horse suddenly threw him to the ground. He watched, helpless and terrified, as the rolling artillery came toward him, only to stop at the very last minute. At precisely the same moment, Berger's sister - far away in his hometown of Coburg - was struck by a premonition, an overwhelming sense that something tragic had befallen her brother. She begged her father to send him a telegram to make sure he was OK. Berger was stunned by the coincidence. "It was a case of spontaneous telepathy," he later wrote of the incident. Determined to ...

The Power of Three How third parties can keep everyone honest. Back in 2008, on a trip to Russia, I got lost. My wife was working at her employer’s Moscow, and St. Petersburgh office and I had gotten off at the wrong bus stop on my way to meet her. In St Peterburg I parked a car on одностороннее движение (uhd-nuh-stah-ROHN-nee-yeh dvee-ZHEH-nee-yeh) - One way street, in English and came back to find that most streets are label that way and that wasn't the name of the street. With no way to tell her I’d be late, I thought I’d take a taxi. But there were no yellow cabs in sight, and back then, Uber was still just a German word. Hailing one of the city’s gypsy cabs —unmarked, unlicensed cars often driven by people unassociated with any company — seemed like my best bet. Still, I was wary of hitching a ride with a random stranger. As I spotted another pedestrian with his arm stretched out for passing cars, I had an idea: Maybe I’d be safer get...

How to Get Lucky: The Secrets to Creating Your Own Good Fortune. A hand holding a pencil, drawing a four-leaf clover on an orange background Illustration. Think getting lucky is all about, well, luck? Think again. Those who appear to “run lucky” just might be engineering fortune in their favor. I'm a great believer in luck, I know that the harder I work the luckier I get. --Thos. Jefferson Some guys seem to have all the luck. A perfect career, a perfect partner, a perfect life. When they’re not sitting next to a book publisher on a flight, they’re discovering a vintage Burberry trench in the thrift store around the corner from your apartment. It’s unbelievable. It’s annoying. Their luck seems naturally random—and these days, thanks to social media, it seems like everybody’s getting lucky but you. But if you’re sitting around waiting for luck to hit you like a benevolent lightning bolt, you’re thinking about it all wron...

...Please pause for 2 minutes and read this (got this SMS @ 5:20 Am EST this morning): 1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. 2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated. 3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home. 4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. 5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself. 6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. 7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A dee...