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Optical Illusion Can Improve Your Golf Game
Inside Science: In studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., cognitive psychologist Jessica Witt found that simply making a hole appear larger on the green can improve a golfer’s putting accuracy by as much
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Looks Can Be Convincing: To Get Promoted, Just Appear Competent
Fast Company: In a perfect–or at least more rational world–the most qualified people would rise fastest. But new research suggests that just appearing to be competent is as important to getting ahead. How so? Think
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Studying The Science Behind Child Prodigies
NPR: Matt Haimovitz is 42 and a world-renowned cellist. He rushed into the classical music scene at age 10 after Itzhak Perlman, the famed violinist, heard him play. “By the time I was 12, 13
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How to Tell If You Are a Bad Employee
The Wall Street Journal: “She’s a bully” and “obnoxious” are what San Francisco-based career coach Joel Garfinkle heard from employees at a Silicon Valley tech company about a colleague. The company had approached Mr. Garfinkle
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Here’s What Happens When You Extend a Deadline
The Huffington Post: In June, the Obama administration pushed back the deadline for employers with 50 or more workers to provide health insurance for their employees by a full year — until Jan 1, 2015.
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Science Reveals the Benefits of an Aging Workforce
The over-65 set is not only increasing in numbers (by 2030 the percentage of people age 65 and older is expected to increase from almost 13 percent to almost 20 percent, according to data from
