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A.J. Jacobs has a revision of the old thousand-mile proverb. The journey doesn't start with a step -- it starts, he writes, with "putting on your left sock." When it comes to outwitting procrastination, I try to make that first action as easy as ...

This cute photo collection shows different cups of coffee that look like they have faces in their bubbles. This isn't human-made latte art, though. These coffee cups just happen to come with a personality. I'd consider it to be good luck if my ...

Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments, the famous 1960s studies where volunteers were told to deliver electric shocks to a stranger, have been taught in introductory psychology courses for decades as a demonstration of how readily people follow ...