Academic success in school doesn’t necessarily translate into adult wellbeing. If you want your kids to grow up into happy adults, a new study suggests what you may want to help them aim for.
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From Lifehacker: The Science Behind Why Power Naps Help You Stay Productive and Creative
If you’ve tried taking naps in the afternoon and found yourself feeling groggy after waking—if you manage to force yourself back out of bed—you may just be going about them all wrong. Even if you don’t work in a job where napping is acceptable, there’s a very clear reason why the best naps are the ones that are usually around the half-hour mark. Here’s why. More »
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From Lifehacker: Protect Anything from Theft with this $2, DIY Motion Alarm
There are a lot of ways to keep your stuff from getting stolen, but legendary DIYer Kip Kay shows us a $2 alarm that will fit on just about anything. More »
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From Lifehacker: Fan Your Ketchup Cups for Maximum Condiment Volume and Dunkage
You know those conspicuously narrow paper condiment cups that make it tough to dip more than a few fries, let alone a burger? Ever notice they’re built to fan out? More »
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From Lifehacker: Feel Rested After a Red Eye Flight by Adjusting Your Food and Water Intake Schedule
Red eye flights aren’t fun, but sometimes they’re inevitable. The worst part is getting to your destination early in the morning without sufficient rest. You have to go about your day tired, and that’s tough. A thread on Quora, however, suggests you can avoid this problem with a few adjustments to your eating (and drinking) schedule. More »
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From Ars Technica: Want to fix traffic? Pay people to get up and go earlier
STANFORD, CALIFORNIA—Everyone hates commuting. (Disclaimer: I work at home, my commute is only about five seconds between my bedroom and my home office. Thanks Ars!) For most driving commuters, the biggest problem is that there are often hundreds of other cars that want to drive the same stretch of highway at the same time. Cars performing below optimal speed is not only inefficient; it pollutes, too.
So, Balaji Prabhakar, a Stanford professor of electrical engineering and computer science with a background in computer networks, had an idea. He found that there may be a new way to alleviate congestion: rather than imposing a penalty on drivers, why not pay them to simply alter their behavior slightly? That is, what if drivers were given a financial incentive to drive slightly earlier or slightly later than the prime 8 to 9 am window?
“The most important thing about congestion that’s worth knowing is that it’s a 10 percent phenomenon,†he told Ars this month. “That means if you shift 10 percent of the load from peak to off-peak, congestion will come down significantly for everyone. The reason is that as load approaches capacity, the rise in congestion is very severe at the high end. You don’t have to shift everybody. In fact, it’s not worthwhile to shift everybody.â€
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From Geeks are Sexy Technology News: Power-Naps are Better Than Caffeine!