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Here’s How Your Dog ‘Sees’ A Whole Other World With His Super-Powered Nose

According to the clip [on link], dogs’ noses have about 300 million olfactory receptor cells in their noses. Humans? A measly 5 million to 6 million. And in dogs, the system dedicated to processing smells takes up more relative brain area compared to humans. These disparities lead scientists to believe that dogs’ sense of smell …

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Psychologists Say Doing These 7 Activities Will Make You Happier

Happiness is good for you. Psychology research shows that happy people make more money, perform better at work, live longer, and have better marriages than everyone else. But the causes of happiness are elusive — philosophers have been trying to figure it out for thousands of years. Over the past few decades psychological science has …

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4 Things You Should Know About Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

In blanket terms, OCD is characterized by two things: obsessions (intrusive, recurring thoughts) and compulsions (behaviors, typically repetitive, that are performed to lessen the anxiety of the thoughts). But the disorder can be difficult to identify because it can present in so many different ways. The National Alliance on Mental Illness defines OCD as a …

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“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”

In a section of his 1843 masterwork Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (public library), which also gave us Kierkegaard on our greatest source of unhappiness, the Danish philosopher defines boredom as a sense of emptiness and examines it not as an absence of stimulation but as an absence of meaning — an idea that also …

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