Tattoos are the new normal, and they can even increase your chances of landing a job, but not all tattoos are created equal. Contrary to popular belief, sporting visible tattoos doesn’t negatively impact your job prospects or salary anymore, says a new study from the University of Miami. Researchers surveyed over 2,000 subjects – with …
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Angry people aren’t as smart as they think they are. These are the findings of a recent study with the title “Why do angry people overestimate their intelligence? Neuroticism as a suppressor of the association between Trait-Anger and subjectively assessed intelligence,” (I am clearly not too smart because that title totally confuses me) and published …
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I was summoned for jury duty. I was actually pretty happy about it. I looked forward to the experience and was enthusiastic about playing a part in the justice system. The reality if it left me bitter and fuming. The first problem was the details of the case itself. We were informed in writing in …
There’s a scene that I remember vividly from my university days. I was sitting on a stool having lunch in a diner in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The older man in the greasy white apron behind the counter looked at the heavy tome I was reading and asked what I was studying. “Comparative literature,” I replied preparing …
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Facebook wants to monitor your facial expressions with forward facing cameras, watch you sleep, and monitor your weekly routine. These describe just two of the “thousands” of patent applications filed by the social media company since it went public in 2012. Surprised? Of course you’re not. Creeped out? Of course you are. The New York …
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Of course, we all know what LOL and BRB mean. You’ve probably heard of YOLO. But what about NIFOC or GYPO? Texting and instant messaging is becoming its own language, and there are a staggering number of abbreviations and codes that people are using to communicate succinctly. And because the teenagers of today have grown …
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In Saskatchewan, the most commonly misspelled word is Discipline. In the rest of the country, it’s Saskatchewan. (Okay, not really.) When you make a spelling mistake in your Google search, the results usually figure out what you meant and offer the helpful, Did You Mean… results for the actual word. So, you found what you …
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Your moral outrage isn’t fooling anyone but yourself. At least not anymore. Recently conducted research suggests that, as many of us have suspected all along, moral outrage expressed on behalf of the victim of perceived third party transgressions is often self serving. I’m pretty sure there are many ways in which this could be so …
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I was so hangry when we met at the Cat Café to celebrate our friendiversary with some superfoods that I hoped my man bun would distract from my dad bod and bitchface. Notice anything about that sentence? It represents the evolution of the English language. The good folks over at Dictionary.com announced this week that …
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The secret to getting ahead at work? Have more sex. (Not at work, the authors hasten to add, have the sex at home.) We all know that people who are fulfilled by their jobs and engaged with their work are more successful than their dissatisfied coworkers who are just phoning it in. In fact, it’s …