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For some of you, this is the first month of school. You're full of enthusiasm and energy, ready to take on the world. For me, we've been back at school for almost three weeks. Standing in front of my once bright-eyed, now baggy-eyed students, I am reminded how important sleep is for young undergraduates. It may only be week three, but I am already getting a number of emails from students who are missing class because of sickness, handing in work that was obviously done under less-than-ideal conditions and falling asleep right in front of me.I think there is more than a little karmic payback going on; as an undergraduate, I was an admittedly terrible student. My grades were fine, but my classroom behavior was less than respectful. If I even managed to show up. All this because I barely slept. Eight hours? Try four or five hours, if I was lucky, starting at three or four in the morning. I was living the undergraduate dream: no parents, no curfew and an endless supply of willing partners-in-crime. When I was having trouble showing up on time for an afternoon class starting at one, I knew I was in trouble.More...

Who Needs Sleep? One Professor 'Fesses Up

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During a good fashion week, many things are awe inspiring; the cut of a complex coat, the innovative use of fabric. Frequently most impressive, though, are the downright zany, terrifyingly vertiginous shoes in which models somehow manage to strut their stuff. Here now for your viewing pleasure, a collection of the craziest, most unexpected shoes this particular fashion week had to offer. Take a look and tell us which ones you'd like to wear!More...

Craziest Shoes At New York Fashion Week: Which Would You Wear? (PHOTOS, POLL)

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Do you believe your thoughts?  If you're anything like me, you probably do -- especially the ones you think and obsess about most (i.e. the negative, critical ones).  However, what if our thoughts aren't true?  In many cases, they're not -- they're just stories we've made up over time and continue to perpetuate with our thinking, speaking and acting.This past weekend, my wife Michelle and I went to a day long workshop with teacher and author Byron Katie.  The workshop blew us both away.  Katie (as she goes by) created a simple, but profound inquiry process more than 20 years ago called "The Work," which consists of four questions and a turnaround.More...

Don't Believe Everything You Think

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If Fashion's Night Out was a little too pricey for your tastes, there are some all-weekend warehouse sales and a flea market for you to check out. And for the high-rollers, Burberry's 2011 fashion show (complete with instant orders via ipad) is more your speed.More...

Los Angeles Warehouse Sales & Fashion Events

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If we take an honest look at ourselves, it is easy to see that we are a mixture of light and shadow, of good qualities and defects. One of the main obstacles we face is a deep-seated and often unconscious conviction that we're born the way we are and nothing we can do can change that.Doing so, we significantly underestimate our capacity for change. Our character traits remain the same as long as we do nothing to change them. Yet, it is possible to arrive at a more optimal way of being.More...

Why Meditate? (VIDEO)

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Once upon a time a man leaned against a wall and fell right through it.Given the tendency for walls to be made of solid matter, and given a similar tendency for a human being's composition to be of a comparably solid quality, it is highly unlikely that any real-life stories have ever included a person falling through a wall.  In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his three laws of motion and the third of these laws stated how for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  When the man leaned against the wall in the above sentence, the wall exerted an equal and opposite force keeping both it and the man in place.  This concept forms much of our understanding of the physical relationship between objects.More...

You think you are what you think?

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I'm a big fan of plastic surgery. Without it, I think I might feel like a freak. While Voltaire made excellent mileage out of a woman with one buttock, I don't think it would be much fun to be her, or, as I would be without plastic surgery, a woman with just one breast. You could, I suppose, stuff your bra with something round and squashy, but I prefer not to. I prefer to put on a bikini and look relatively normal. I think most of us prefer to look relatively normal.Operations are, however, horrible. They're painful and unpleasant. The body isn't designed to be whacked with great doses of anaesthetic, and then sliced and diced and stitched. It does its best to deal with it, but it takes its toll. I've had four operations in the past seven years, and I'm extremely grateful for anaesthetics that work and surgeons who know what they're doing. I wouldn't be alive without them. I'm extremely grateful, too, for the plastic surgeon who chopped off half my stomach (though all my friends were offering theirs) and put it in the space just vacated by a breast. But I can't begin to understand how anyone with healthy breasts, or buttocks, or thighs, can take them anywhere near a surgeon's knife for reasons other than medical necessity.More...

If Bigger Breasts Are the Answer, What's the Question?

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It was inevitable that Christine O'Donnell's republican primary win in Delaware would get the Taiwanese animation treatment, and here it is! NMA News does what they do best and CGI's the heck out of O'Donnell's extremist views, Karl Rove's anger, and the Democrats' disbelief that any Tea Party member could win a general election. But are the Democrats underestimating the populist movement?WATCH:More...

Christine O'Donnell And The Tea Party Explained With Crazy Taiwanese Animation (VIDEO)

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Get ready to set your TiVos...or maybe not. E! is planning a new reality series called "Bridalplasty," Reuters reports. On each episode, a group of brides-to-be will compete in wedding-themed challenges like writing vows and planning honeymoons to be awarded different cosmetic surgeries. The week's winner gets her procedure done and the results are shown at the beginning of the following week's episode.Then, according to the Hollywood Reporter, one-by-one the women are voted off of the show by their competitors:More...

'Bridalplasty' To Combine Extreme Plastic Surgery & Dream Wedding Competition (POLL)

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I have three NFL Best Bets for Sunday after going 2-0 on my Saturday Best Bets with Arizona over Iowa and Stanford killing Wake Forest. One of my Best Bets is analyzed below and you can get all Best Bets each week at http://www.drbobsports.com/analysis.cfmMake sure to check out my weekly free analysis and money management articles at drbobsports.com.More...

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