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Many people have a sense of about how long they’re going to live, which can significantly influence their attitudes and actions. Those life expectancy hunches are usually incorrect, however. Our parents’ life span only has a 3 percent effect on ours. Identical twins die an average of 10 years apart, too. And a study of…

Why do some people seem to have all the luck while others who may be equally talented and presentable never get that big career break or meet the right person? It’s not some kind of magic ability or random chance, says British psychologist Richard Wiseman; to a large extent, “people generate their own good fortune.”…

It’s hard to keep up with all the research on what makes a healthy diet. Fortunately, Dr. Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, professor of neurosurgery and physiology at UCLA, has done a lot of it for us. In a recent article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Gómez-Pinilla analyzed findings from more than 160 scientifically-sound studies of neurology-related nutrition. “Food…

“Sleep that knits up the ravel’d sleave of care,” wrote Shakespeare, and it’s true; sleep refreshes our outlook on life, plus much more besides. Recent research shows that sleep is essential to repairing physical wear and tear, from healing wounds to building the immune system. Chronic lack of sleep can cause depression and impaired thinking….