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SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
Writing a thank-you note might do more than just brighten someone’s day — it could actually boost your own well-being. According to new research published in PLOS One, positive expressive writing – such as jotting down what you’re grateful for, or imagining a hopeful future — can consistently improve your mental health. Unlike traditional writing exercises that focus on processing negative experiences (which can stir up tough emotions in the short term), positive writing focuses on gratitude and optimism. These techniques help people feel better over time — without that emotional bumpiness. Researchers reviewed studies on this topic, dating all the way back to 1930, and found that those who tried positive writing exercises reported feeling happier, more satisfied with life, and more grateful. The most helpful approaches included writing letters of gratitude and visualizing your “best possible self.”
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
“Adolescence” is about to become Netflix‘s second most-watched English-language series of all time. The limited series has seen huge success since its March 13 release, prompting talks of a follow up, and is now on the brink of the 140.7M views that Stranger Things 4 nabbed in its first 91 days. This is a major feat for Adolescence, which had no major star power attached to its story about a 13-year-old boy accused of stabbing a female classmate to death after being drawn into the online manosphere. By contrast, Stranger Things had become one of Netflix’s biggest franchises by the time the newest season premiered.
Byron Allen will be back on CBS in a late-night slot next season. The network has scheduled “Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen” into the 12:30am slot, following the cancellation of “After Midnight”, which ran for 2 seasons. Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen will begin airing after “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on September 22 with back-to-back, half-hour episodes.
DID YA KNOW!?
Teenagers who sleep longer and have an earlier bedtime have improved brain function and perform better in thinking and memory tests, says a new study. A report published in Cell Reports found that going to bed later and sleeping for a shorter amount of time affects the adolescent’s body clock during an important period of brain development. But the study also showed that even those with better sleeping habits are not getting the amount of sleep recommended for their age group. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that teens get 8-10 hours of sleep during this developmental period.
JOKE
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SCOOP
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Hold onto your utility belts and chimichangas—this is not a drill. DC Comics and Marvel are teaming up again, and this time, they’re throwing 2 of their biggest wild cards into the same chaotic ring: ‘Batman’ and ‘Deadpool’. Yes, really! In a surprise announcement that’s rocking the comic book world, the 2 publishing powerhouses revealed an upcoming crossover series that kicks off this September. First up, Marvel’s dropping “Deadpool/Batman #1”, then in November, DC will fire back with “Batman/Deadpool #1”. In addition, each issue will come packed with bonus stories featuring surprise matchups between other Marvel and DC characters. Think of it as a comic book multiverse party — and everyone’s invited. Each company will use their own writers and artists for their own takes on the team-ups, with one promising “4th wall busting mayhem, owls, blood, blades, and at least one giant typewriter.” But honestly, would you expect anything less from Deadpool crashing Batman’s brooding skyline? The last time these 2 comic titans collaborated was over 20 years ago.
Scientists say they have discovered a revolutionary new way to help relieve knee pain – and you’re not going to believe this – it involves treating your ear — seriously. A new study found that stimulating a nerve in the ear, called the vagus nerve, helped ease knee pain in some people. This nerve helps regulate our body’s “rest and relax” mode, and researchers think that people with knee osteoarthritis might have too much “fight or flight” and not enough “rest and digest.” In the University of Texas study, 30 people used a small device that clips onto the ear and sends gentle electrical pulses. After an hour of treatment, 11 of them reported feeling less knee pain. It’s early yet, but these results are promising enough to launch a bigger trial. If all goes well, this could open up a new, non-invasive way to manage knee pain.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"Apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" – Reg, "The Life of Brian" (1979)
NEWS TO ME
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FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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✓ Standing like a superhero for 2 minutes configures your brain to cope well in stressful situations.
✓ 35 years after leaving school, most people can still identify 90% of their classmates.
✓ When you correct for weight difference, men are proportionately stronger than horses.
✓ Martha Stewart became a billionaire while in prison.
✓ Albert Einstein never wore socks.
WEIRD NEWS
When’s the last time you thought about sitcom laugh tracks? Probably like…never—unless you were wondering why they haven’t totally disappeared yet. Multi-cam sitcoms with canned laughter have long felt like a dying breed, left behind by slick, single-camera comedies. But they’re not dead yet. In fact, there are more sitcoms using laugh tracks on broadcast TV right now than single-cam shows — and some are doing very well, thank you (And yes, there’s a new Chuck Lorre show!). Critics love to dunk on them, calling them fake and patriarchal, but according to a new Hollywood Reporter story, that just might be exactly what makes them feel kind of . . . artistic these days. Amid big-production dramas and reality shows where everyone’s miserable, the glossy, silly world of sitcoms just FEELS good. And even though the laugh track is an idea recycled from the 1950s, the bottom line is that it still works. In some weird way, it reminds us we’re watching comedy together…even if the legend that those laugh tracks we hear were recorded generations ago is true…and we’re chuckling along with people who have been dead for decades!
QUESTION OF THE DAY
26% of mothers think their son needs to cut back on THIS. What is it?
Answer: Cologne
HEIDI HAS SOMETHING SPECIAL
(FROM HEIDI)
THE LIST
EPONYMOUS LAWS:
As you no doubt know, Murphy’s Law states: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Here are some laws named after other people, all based on observations or rules of thumb that capture some universal truth of human experience…
Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late project makes it later.”
Celine’s Law: “Honest communication occurs only between equals.”
Dykstra’s Law: “Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.”
Hanlon’s Razor: “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Law of the Instrument: “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Littlewood’s Law: “A person can expect to experience events with odds of one in a million (a ‘miracle’) at the rate of about one per month.”
Napoleon’s Law: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
Ringwald’s Law of Household Geometry: “Any horizontal surface is soon piled up on.”
Segal’s Law: “A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with 2 watches is never sure.”
Two Pizza Law: “If you can’t feed a team with two pizzas, it’s too large.”
Badger’s
Law: “Any website with the word ‘Truth’ in the URL has none in
the posted content.”
CAD’s Theorem of Topic Closure: “A clear, well thought-out, well-written post is less likely to receive a reply than a (crappy), moronic, badly mistaken post, because it leaves less to be said.”
Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get a correct answer to a posed question is to post the wrong answer and wait for someone to correct you.”
Danth’s Law: “If you have to insist that you’ve won an internet argument, you’ve probably lost badly.”
Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Hitler approaches 1.”
Law of Exclamation: “The more exclamation points used in an email (or post), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters.”
Law of Fakery: “Anything fake which attracts enough attention will have some people vehemently proclaiming it’s real.
Lewis’ Law: “The comments on any article about feminism justify feminism.”
Munroe’s Law: “You will never change anyone’s opinion on anything by making a post on the Internet. Knowing this will not stop you from trying.”
Shank’s Law: “There is no idea so bat(bleep!) insane that you can’t find at least one PhD scientist to support it.”
Skitt’s Law: “Any post correcting an error in another post will contain at least one error itself”
Time Cube Law: “As the length of a webpage grows linearly, the likelihood of the author being a lunatic increases exponentially.”
GOOD NEWS
He Worked The Night Shift At Burger King After Graduation — Now Strangers Have Raised Over $180,000 For His Future. https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news
