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Evidence for Lukianoff’s reverse CBT hypothesis
In CBT you learn to recognize when your ruminations and automatic thinking patterns exemplify one or more of about a dozen “cognitive distortions,” such as catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking, fortune telling, or emotional reasoning. Thinking in these ways causes depression, as well as being a symptom of depression. Breaking out of these painful distortions is a cure for depression.
Students were saying that an unorthodox speaker on campus would cause severe harm to vulnerable students (catastrophizing); they were using their emotions as proof that a text should be removed from a syllabus (emotional reasoning). Greg hypothesized that if colleges supported the use of these cognitive distortions, rather than teaching students skills of critical thinking (which is basically what CBT is), then this could cause students to become depressed. Greg feared that colleges were performing reverse CBT.
How a Phone-Based Childhood Breeds Passivity
Liberal teen girls are by far the most likely to report that they spend five or more hours a day on social media. Being an ultra-heavy user means that you have less time available for everything else, including time “in real life” with your friends.
What do I mean by hollow body position?
It’s characterized by a shortening of the anterior part of the torso (abs are contracted) and a posterior pelvic tilt (to achieve the posterior pelvic tilt, think about squeezing your butt cheeks together). Ultimately, doing this puts your body in a hollow, or banana-shaped, position—hence the name.
If you’re in a hollow hold position on the floor, it means just your bum and lower back only are touching the floor. Your shoulder blades and extended legs shouldn’t be touching the floor, your heels should hover just a couple inches off the ground, and your arms should be extended straight overhead squeezing your ears.
1. Deadbug Holds
2. Wall Deadbugs
4. Straight-Legged Deadbug Holds
5. Tuck-Ups
The Hollow Mash-Up
If you think your hollow body position is already pretty solid, try this hollow body mash-up test. Can you do it unbroken?
10 V-Sits
15 Tuck-Ups
20 Hollow Rocks
30 Second Hollow Hold
Learn why Microsoft's Playwright framework is a stellar solution for end-to-end testing and monitoring.
Stefan Judis
THE first volume of Scripta Minoa was published in 1909. It contained, as Part I, an account of the Prae-Phoenician Scripts of Crete, their Mediterranean relations and place in Minoan story (pp. i-i 10). Part II described the Hieroglyphic or Conventionalized Pictographic Script, with its antecedents and affinities (pp. 111-293). Part HI discussed the Phaestos Disk (pp. 294-302). An Analytical Index (pp. 294-302) was in effect a detailed table of contents; and there were twelve collotype plates.
Oxford 1952
You know one language and want to find the corresponding operator or function in another language
sprintf-like
sprintf Awk, C, C++, F#, Maple, Matlab, merd, OCaml, Perl, Perl6, PHP, Pike, Ruby
printf Haskell
% Python, Ruby
It can be challenging to express your thoughts clearly. Alan Alda recommends three rules of three for effective and empathic communication.
1. Make no more than three points
Research suggests that short-term memory is far less robust, maxing out at a meager three to five items.
2. Explain difficult ideas in three different ways
3. Make important points three times
In some close-knit relationships, spaced repetition is a phenomenal tool. Teachers, parents, psychiatrists, or team managers can use it to return to and reinforce difficult ideas across many conversations.
There’s a lot of talk lately about API-first as an approach to design and development. While there are many paths to API-first, usually the people driving this initiative within their organizations have job titles like API architect, API designer, and API platform leader. It makes sense because they are most invested in the efficiency, interoperability, and quality of the organization’s APIs.
0:00 Swing 10/10 (12/12)
1:00 (Clean and) Press 5/5
2:00 Row 10/10
3:00 Squat 5/5
4:00 Rest
5:00 Repeat (5 rounds total)
Why religion is never created nor destroyed in any society, but merely conserved in various guises
One advantage of a religious education these days is identifying the residue of religious thought in the atavisms of contemporary secular culture. ‘White privilege’, with its inescapable culpability and ritual self-flagellation, is the updated Catholic notion of Original Sin, wherein everyone descended from Adam (or possessing ‘whiteness’) bears an unpardonable burden.
Paleo, ketogenic, vegan: the diet-conscious fussbudget fretting over what’s in his Asian/Latin fusion pozole pho isn’t much different than any adherent of halal or kashrut.
The point isn’t the predictive power of the scientific hypothesis, but how it gets actionably internalized as religious doctrine: It’s possible to speak of objective empirical realities religiously and mythically, and that’s mostly what we do.
You'll blast abs, obliques, lower back muscles, and glutes by combining sprinter situps and gator rolls in this at-home, no-equipment core finishing move from Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S.
The best part: You can do this core series anywhere.
- Start with your back on the ground, lower back glued to the floor, arms and legs slightly off the ground. Contract your abs and lift legs and shoulder blades off the ground. You're now in a hollow hold.
- Roll over to the left onto your belly and then your back quickly; do this without letting arms or legs touch the ground. You should land in a hollow hold.
- Go right into sprinter situps: Maintain a hollow hold and elevate your torso while tucking your right knee to your chest. Then return to a hollow hold and repeat the move on the other side. That's 2 reps.
- Gator roll to the other side; now do 4 sprinter situps.
- Repeat the pattern until you've completed the round of 10 sprinter situps.
- Rest 1 minute; do 3 sets.
Complete list of links to Hex Variety Cryptics in WSJ originally compiled by Barry Haldiman
Complete list of Hex Puzzlers (with references to books in which they were republished)
Compiled by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
Complete list of Puzzles and answers in Harper's Magazine (subscription required)
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