Australia asks tourists to "find yourself" in Oz (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Australia, losing its appeal to overseas visitors, is pitching itself as a place to "find yourself" in a massive global tourism campaign aligned with an outback movie starring Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman.
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Experts Find Loss Of Control Leads People To Seek Order, Answers (Medical News Today)
New research published in the journal Science explains why individuals seek to find and impose order on an unruly world through superstition, rituals and conspiratorial explanations by linking a loss of control to individual perceptions. The research finds that a quest for structure or understanding leads people to trick themselves into seeing and believing connections that simply don't exist.
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Study: Religious people more generous -- on 2 conditions (USA Today)
Religious people act more kindly than atheists on condition they believe their acts will enhance their reputations among their peers and they're freshly reminded, in a subconscious way, of the existence of a morally tinged God or supernatural being, according to a new study published in the journal Science.
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Institute to help more, once-homeless, folks find jobs (Miami Herald)
About 200 people have completed the program, which includes customer-service training, job interview tips and a $100 voucher to buy work-appropriate outfits at Chapter 2, an Overtown store that sells donated clothing.
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'People find the people that they want to see again and again' (New York Daily News)
Selflessness. Schadenfreude. Squirrels. The Bad Egg Collective discussed all three - emphasis on the squirrels - on a recent Tuesday evening at a bar in the Flatiron District.
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