SIGNS IT’S TIME TO SHED A FRIEND _She may have once been your confidante and most trusted source, but now she’s more of a source of frustration and negativity. Is it time to break off your friendship? Some signs it may be time ditch a friend:
• Your friend is always critical and judgmental of you.
• Your friend is self-centered, narcissistic.
• Your friend is so needy that you can never do enough for her.
• Your friend is unreliable.
• Your friends is so jealous that she gets furious when you are with other women.
• Your friend has poor judgment and does things that compromise her health and/or safety; you’ve tried to intervene but to no avail.
• Your friend puts you in compromising positions.
• Your friend is constantly negative and complaining.
• You feel totally drained each time you’re together.
• The relationship is unequal; you are constantly on the giving end.
BEST TIME FOR A BREAK MIGHT BE MID-MORNING, NOT THE AFTERNOON _ The afternoon is when most of us hit a productivity wall and feel the need for a break, but a study suggests that it might be better to conserve your energy earlier in the day. The study (published in the Journal of Applied Psychology) analyzed over 900 surveys regarding breaks at work — lunches, coffee, socializing with co-workers, and personal email. The results suggested that it’s better to break before you’ve used up your mental resources in order to refresh and actually recuperate some of those resources. Researchers found that workers should take a break mid-morning, before lunch. Morning breaks were the most effective at restoring resources of all breaks across the day. Your mental resources decline throughout the day, so when taking a mid-morning break you’re replenishing a small amount of lost resources better as opposed to afternoon, when it’s harder to get back to your pre-break state.
COMMON MOVIE MYTHS
MYTH: You must wait 24 hours before reporting a missing person.
TRUTH: If you have genuine concerns, you should contact the police immediately.
MYTH: You can talk to another skydiver during free fall.
TRUTH: The wind traveling past your ears makes you deaf to all sounds.
MYTH: The pin of a grenade can be dramatically pulled out with one’s teeth.
TRUTH: The person would have no teeth afterwards, and the grenade would still have a pin.
MYTH: The forensic process gives answers to all questions and even solves crimes.
TRUTH: The process of forensics only helps to collect evidence.
MYTH: An asteroid belt is dense and crowded.
TRUTH: There are many miles of vacuum between asteroids.
MYTH: Silencers make every gun completely quiet.
TRUTH: A silencer only dampens the noise, but the gunshot is still audible.
