生き甲斐, pronouncedikigai, is a Japanese concept that means “reason for being.” In other words, what makes you get up in the morning without an alarm clock because you're so damn excited?! Ikigai is at the heart of Financial Samurai, this personal finance site I created in 2009 to ...
The point is that apart from understanding clearly pronounced, standard Mandarin, you also need to deal with dozens of common variations and accents, many of which merge sounds, reducing the number of syllables further, thus making listening even harder. This is of course not unique to learning ...
Recognized as a breed by the American Kennel Club in 2021, the Biewer terrier (pronounced like "beaver") is known for its fun-loving, whimsical personality. Known for carrying around toys in their mouths, this breed is the first to be recognized as a purebred as a result of a geneti...
This limitation is especially pronounced because the sensory and cognitive consequences of enrichment are frequently hard to measure. It’s really tricky because I guess it becomes subjective... it’s the things like the scents and the oils and the things that get the brain more active that is...
The role of oxytocin in depression is still being debated, with a recent meta-analysis of case–control comparisons yielding a null finding [63]. The finding of lower oxytocin predicting less pronounced change in depressive symptoms may be interpreted as resulting from a lower-quality therapeutic ...
(NIF) effects of light on circadian rhythms and sleep. In fact, studies conducted only in winter may result in more pronounced NIF effects than in summer. Here, we systematically collected information on the extent to which studies on the NIF effects of evening light include information on ...