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A Nearly Effortless Way to Improve Employee Motivation, Morale, and Performance: The Science of Proximity - Inc.com

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When I was a shop-floor employee (regardless of what I've done since, still the most formative period of my professional life), for a time I was part of the most productive crew in our 1,000-employee facility. While most crews were separated by fractions of a percent, we typically outran other crews by at least 10 percent.

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I Love Candy. But Does It Make Me Happy? - The Atlantic

The question of whether sugar is simply a treat or actually a nasty trick goes way beyond Halloween.

I love Halloween. It’s not the costumes and parties and pumpkins—they’re fun, but I don’t care so much about any of that. What I love is being able to snack openly on candy corn, Necco Wafers, and Squirrel Nut Zippers without judgy looks from others. I can eat that stuff well into November and people will assume it was left over from the trick-or-treaters. But it won’t be left over. It will be from treats I bought for myself and didn’t share with the little ingrates at the door.

Since childhood, I have had an insatiable sweet tooth. I blame my parents—specifically, my father. According to scientists writing in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2019, the perception of sweetness and intake of sugar are, in part, heritable traits. My dad used to keep candy stashed all over the house, all year round: Sugar Babies in the glove box; Milk Duds behind the cushions of the couch; Tootsie Rolls in the sock drawer. I am my father’s son, and eating confectionery makes me happy.

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‘How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?’ - The Atlantic

I saw the gun-violence epidemic—and my relationship to it as a gun owner—as an abstraction. Then a mass shooting happened in the little city where I work.

During my first semester of teaching while in grad school, I made a habit of showing up to my classroom half an hour early. I was green as a sapling and felt wholly unqualified for the task before me, and I had the vague sense that arriving before anyone else and looking prepared was one way to earn the respect of students who were barely younger than I was. The second week of classes, coffee in hand and the day’s reading tucked under my arm, I arrived to find an undergrad crouched in front of a half-open window. He was taking a photo with his phone, and when he saw me, he jumped. My presence was unexpected.

The student, whose name I was struggling to recall, screeched the window shut and turned to face me. His cheeks were flushed red. When I asked if everything was all right, he said he was making sure the windows opened. “My mom told me to always check to make sure they work, just in case, you know …” His voice trailed off and his face turned more crimson still. I must have looked confused because he continued: “In case some gun nut with an AR-15 tries to shoot up the place. When a new semester starts, my mother makes me send her a photo of the open windows in each of my classrooms.” I tried to come up with something to say and found I could not. “She’s a little paranoid, I guess,” he offered. Then another bleary-eyed student shuffled in and the conversation ended.

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Macron Travels to Central Asia Seeking Friendship and Uranium - TIME

After finding itself suddenly unwelcome in its traditional sphere of influence, France is casting further afield.

That’s why President Emmanuel Macron will travel to energy-rich Central Asia this week to visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, two suppliers of the uranium that powers the country’s nuclear reactors.

The trip aims to boost France’s energy security, according to two people familiar with the French President’s thinking, who declined to be named when discussing matters of diplomacy. These efforts are in keeping with a wider European effort to diversify away from the Russian fossil fuels on which the bloc was formerly so reliant.

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