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6 Practical Ways to Boost Your Mental Fitness | Lifehack

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Today we are bombarded with information from morning till night. There is so much noise from television, social media, radio and even the Internet that we often overlook quieter activities that have a tremendous impact on our mental fitness — our brain.

Fortunately, the human brain is one of the most adaptable and responsive organs in the body. It’ll soak up new challenges like a sponge and continue developing throughout your life. But in order to do that, it needs some special attention.

There are lots of things you can do to keep your brain active – everything from reading books to playing games will work wonders for your memory, problem-solving skills, concentration abilities and much more.

Read on to find out about some different ways you can exercise your brain.

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FDA approved a 1st-of-its-kind treatment made from human poop. What does it do? | Live Science

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For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a treatment that’s made using donated human poop, the agency announced(opens in new tab) Wednesday (Nov. 30). The treatment, called Rebyota, contains gut bacteria collected from the stool of healthy human donors and is approved for the prevention of a potentially life-threatening bacterial infection.

By administering the liquid treatment into a patient’s rectum through a tube, doctors can help restore balance to the patient’s gut microbiome, the community of microbes living in the lower digestive tract.

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Ethics in the Workplace: Is It Ever OK to Lie at the Office? | All Business

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If your boss came to work in new attire that you thought looked hideous, would you lie or tell the truth? If you’re like me, you’d lie.

Afterward, you and I wouldn’t experience much guilt. Almost everyone tells white lies to protect others as well as ourselves from truths that could cause them or us unnecessary pain. In fact, a national survey revealed that 40% of people lied at least once during a 24-hour period.

If you met someone for the first time and wanted to appear likable and competent, would you tell a lie to make yourself look better? Most of us would, according to a University of Massachusetts study, which found that students lie two to three times during a conversation when they want to impress someone else.

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Why Should Your Business Utilize the Cloud? | The Startup Magazine

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Many businesses have moved from using on-premise software to cloud computing. However, if you haven’t done it, it may be time to consider it so as not to be left out by the competition. Cloud computing allows access to data anywhere using any device connected to the internet. The continuously increasing internet speed makes it possible for users to use the service whether they are in the office, at home, in the field, or even while on the road. Here are the cloud computing benefits and why your business should utilize the cloud.

It allows remote work

As mentioned, users can access data in any location with a stable internet connection. It offers flexibility, as employees can work remotely. The pandemic increased the number of people working from home. Although many are back in the office setup, some companies still allow remote or hybrid work. Your staff will be happier with the flexibility of the work setup, making them more productive. It also improves employee retention.

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China Covid: Shocking protests are huge challenge for China’s leaders | BBC News

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Acts of dissent are not unusual in China.

Over the years, sudden, local explosions of defiance have been triggered by a range of issues – from toxic pollution to illegal land grabs, or the mistreatment of a community member at the hands of the police.

But this time it’s different.

There is one subject at the forefront of Chinese people’s minds, and many are increasingly fed up with it – prompting widespread pushback against the government’s zero-Covid restrictions.

This has come in the form of residents smashing down barriers designed to enforce social distancing, and now large street protests in cities and university campuses across the country

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Lawyers see crypto regulation coming in 2023 because industry needs to rebuild trust | TechCrunch

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Despite an uneven year in the crypto markets, many market participants are unperturbed about the long-term health of the sector and say that legal frameworks in 2023 could restore trust in the industry.

“Crypto will recover,” Katherine Dowling, general counsel member at Bitwise Asset Management, said to TechCrunch. “This is not the death of crypto.”

Given the belief by many that crypto remains here to stay, it’s worth looking ahead. Crypto denizens certainly are — after the FTX collapse, questions circulated concerning crypto’s future and what regulators would do next.

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Rise of Refillable Make-Up | Cool Business Ideas

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Refillable makeup products promise to reduce waste and help create a more sustainable beauty routine. If you’ve ever thrown out old makeup, you know how much waste plastic packaging creates. You can fill a wastebasket pretty quickly with old eye shadow and powder compacts, not to mention foundation bottles and so on. But which refillable makeup containers are the most sustainable? Are some better than others? We set out to figure out if refillable makeup products are as sustainable as they say, and which ones offer the best value.

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Amazon recruiters were laid off. AI tech might fill their roles. | Mashable

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The fear of every person who reads too much sci-fi labor dystopia might be coming true: Robots could be replacing workers.

Last week, Amazon extended hundreds of its recruiters’ buyout opportunities in just one part of a very long, very trying cycle of layoffs expected from the shopping giant. And some of those jobs might have been lost to some new artificial intelligence technology the company has been experimenting with for a year, according to a confidential internal document viewed by Recode.

Amazon’s AI technology — known internally as Automated Applicant Evaluation or AAE — works by predicting which job applicants have the highest potential of being successful in certain roles, and then fast-tracking them to an interview all without a human recruiter’s oversight. According to Recode, it works by finding the middle part of a venn diagram between current Amazon employees and job applicants applying for similar jobs. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Mashable.

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All the science that’s launching to the space station today | Digital Trends

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Today, Saturday November 26, an uncrewed SpaceX Dragon craft will be launching to the International Space Station. Packed inside the Dragon, which will be launched by a Falcon 9 rocket, will be a pair of new solar arrays for the space station, called International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays or iROSAs, as well as a wide range of science experiments and technology demonstrations.

Also included in the delivery will be an experiment to grow a crop of dwarf tomatoes. Growing food on the space station has been a topic of research because it will be necessary to grow food for longer crewed space missions, such as those planned to visit Mars, so that astronauts can eat something fresh. There is also a psychological component to growing and eating your own food that is beneficial for astronauts. Many of the foods grown on the ISS to date have been leafy greens (though there have also been experiments into growing chiles, radishes, and more), so the new experiment, called VEG-05, will test out growing tomatoes, including investigating how light and fertilizer affect their growth.

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