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Dominant personalities Almost every team has that one dominant personality who is motivated by winning, competition, and reaching results. While dominant personalities are often seen as commanding and confident, their characteristics have a flip side. They can also become obstinate, aggressive, and overly direct. Take Gabe, a business development manager at a food and beverage company. Gabe was...

How to be a better listener Ever zone out while someone is talking? Of course. We all do. The average human has an eight-second attention span. With electronic distractions competing for your time and an abundance of responsibilities at work, it makes listening attentively to someone else speak pretty difficult. “We are living in a time when it’s...

Ukraine headache meme The popular headache meme on social media has moved to the international-diplomacy space. On Tuesday, Ukraine tweeted the graphic that delineates a trio of well-known headache types—migraine, hypertension, and stress, each highlighting the corresponding pain in a different area of the brain—and then punchlines with a picture of a head that’s completely red. Its fourth...

Gas prices around the world The average price for a gallon of gas in the United States is above $4.75 (and in some areas, like California, upwards of $6.18). While those prices are exhausting many drivers’ budgets, they are something of a relief from previous weeks—on average, prices were about 10 cents higher a week ago. Even as...

lactation porn Lactation rooms are no longer a nice-to-have perk for working mothers–for many companies, they’re required by law. But just because lactation rooms became an architectural requirement for companies with more than 50 employees with the passage of the Affordable Care Act doesn’t mean they’re well designed. Many working women are still forced to pump in closets,...

Fake photo One month before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, an Access Hollywood recording of Donald Trump was released in which he was heard lewdly talking about women. The then-candidate and his campaign apologized and dismissed the remarks as harmless. At the time, the authenticity of the recording was never questioned. Just two years later, the public finds...

Pressure cooker bombs and backpack A Long Island woman was visited by local police officers working on an anti-terrorism detail, allegedly as a result of her family’s Google searches. Michele Catalano, a writer for Death and Taxes magazine, was searching Google to compare pressure cookers to buy. Then, as she writes for Medium, six men in plainclothes came...

How long until 2020 is over If you’ve been browsing social media (and honestly, what else is there to do?) the last few hours, you might see people freaking out over an answer Siri has been giving to the question, “Hey Siri, how long until 2020 ends?” What really makes Gen Z different from older generations? We asked...

Younger millennials This is not your father’s middle age. And chances are, if you’re a millennial, you don’t even get the reference to the Oldsmobile advertising slogan from the late 1980s. (We know, we know: What’s an Oldsmobile?) But the period of time between youth and old age is in flux. A new Harris Poll conducted exclusively for...

left-handed personality characteristics It might be hard to believe, but left-handed people make up only an estimated 11% of the population. As child educational psychologist, author, and former UCLA associate professor Charlotte Reznick, PhD (who is left-handed herself) explains, this fragment of the population sees the world through a unique lens. “When we’re left-handed, our right brains are...