Stress is nothing to laugh about, except that you should. A new study by researchers at Loma Linda University in California shows that laughter can reduce stress by decreasing the hormone cortisol. Excessive cortisol levels can damage your ability to learn and memorize. The researcher

Richard Wiseman, writer and host of the In59Seconds series on YouTube, has a new project called Night School, which focuses on the science of sleep. As the website says, ” It’s time to reclaim the night, and to wake up to the power of sleep and dreaming.” With that in mind

Like Carla Rieger, I come from a family of worriers, and by seeing how it affected their lives I’ve worked hard on suspending worry from my own life. It’s hard, though, and Rieger offers a way to help you rid yourself of this wasted-energy activity. I think that’s a

Facebook continues to be the social channel of choice for most consumers and companies. In fact, according to a Gigya quarterly survey Facebook accounted for 51 percent of all North American social logins in the first quarter of 2014. Google Plus came in second with 31 percent of logi

Albert Einstein loved to play the violin when he wasn’t working on scientific equations. Even though it was a hobby, it fed his “day job.” “The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition,” Einste