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Having a sense of purpose linked to lower dementia risk
Researchers found that people who reported a higher sense of purpose in life were about 28% less likely to develop cognitive impairment – including mild cognitive impairment and dementia.
The growing and persistent success of LoFi Girl
Williams, the music researcher, told 404 Media that Lofi Girl's aesthetic taps into “the psychology of productivity mirroring,” which is a technique in which people motivate themselves to do a task by having another person around.
Williams says the music itself can often become secondary to the familiar, comforting vibe for Lofi Girl listeners. “Lofi Girl appeals most to young music fans who love and consume lots of different kinds of music, but appreciate the Lofi Girl specifically because it gives them something predictable in an evermore chaotic world,” she said.
I created my own AI medical team. It changed the way doctors treat my cancer.
AI doesn’t replace anyone; it augments everyone. It can give patients the ability to understand more, doctors the ability to synthesize more, and the system the ability to respond faster, earlier, and more intelligently than ever before.
This approach doesn’t hand the keys to machines. Instead, it builds a partnership between human judgment and machine intelligence — a partnership that sees us as individuals. When I wanted to know what else was being tried around the world, AI helped me to learn the paths others had gone down. AI can keep up with the incredible pace of medical discovery much more efficiently than humans. It can find the signal in the noise, even across disciplines.
Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning
But Kirk’s actions undercut that notion every day. His entire business was saying the other side was evil and dehumanizing them. The debates were simply performances, and he could not have an entertaining public fight without opposition. Turning Point did not work to bring people together; it worked to bring about a country where anyone who wasn’t a white Christian nationalist wasn’t welcome. I won’t celebrate his death, but I’m not obligated to celebrate his life, either.
Unfortunately, it’s become clear that Discord is not a safe option for chat, and this is deeply concerning at a time when members of marginalized groups are especially vulnerable. Between user data being hosted in the United States and Discord’s apparent willingness to promptly hand over your communication to any agency that requests it, I can’t in good conscience continue to offer it as an option for omg.lol members.
The Austin Church Targeted by Ken Paxton for Helping the Homeless. Pastor Mark Hilbelink is the true Jesus.
There are roughly three thousand churches in the Austin area, and that “if every church in Austin served two homeless people, you wouldn’t need day centers. Unfortunately, Christianity has adopted a kind of exceptionalism, a club mentality,” he said, “and that’s really sad.”