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Soundtrack for Your Thumos

The ancient Greeks believed that a man’s soul or psyche was made up of three parts: Reason, Appetites, and Thumos. While an understanding of the first two parts of this tripartite model of the soul remains with us, the concept of thumos has been mostly lost in our modern day. We tellingly have no...

AoM Book Club September ’14: Jayber Crow

The story of Jayber Crow could very well be the story of each and every one of us. It’s a character-driven book that follows the life of once-seminarian and now small-town barber Jayber Crow. He sits behind his chair and delves into big questions about the meaning of life and community while...

Best Money Tips: The Best Sites for Renting and Buying Textbooks

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some stellar articles on the best sites for renting and buying textbooks, steps to financial prosperity, and things you should know about the U.S. economy.
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15 Ways to Get People to Respond to Your Email

The average person spends about 13 hours every week sorting through email.

With the number of worldwide email accounts expected to hit nearly 4.1 billion by 2015, it seems that those hours are likely to keep on growing and growing. (See also: This Thing You Use Every Day Is Ruining Your...

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Are You Eating the 10 Most Over-Priced Restaurant Menu Items?

Americans love to dine out. We spend an average of $1,000 annually just on going to lunch. In total, we each spend about $2700 annually in restaurants and on take-out.

And where I live (New York City), it's that much worse. So I decided to do a price comparison to discover the restaurant menu...

Five tips for storing your treasured books

Even with the popularity of e-books, many of us still have collections of treasured physical books. But do we treat those books like the valued possessions we say they are? The following five tips will help you preserve the books … Continued
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You May Be Putting Your Retirement Money in the Wrong Place

For many investors, their primary — if not only — retirement investment account is their workplace 401(k) plan. But if you also have an IRA, perhaps because you rolled over the balance of a workplace plan from a former employer, it's important to make sure your account is at the best...

7 Little Known Ways In Which Poor Sleep Is Killing You And Your Career

Tired huh? Or more like exhausted? Fact: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 30 percent, or 40.6 million, of American adults are sleeping six hours or less everyday. Chances are you’re in that statistic. In today’s information age sleep deprivation is an epidemic....

10 Quick Ways to Become More Hygienic

Right now, at this very moment, there are germs running literally all over you, all over your home, and all over absolutely everything you own.

Please remain calm.

It isn't your fault. In fact, it probably isn't a matter of poor hygiene at all. Although we often think of hygiene as a word having...

The 5 Best Hair Clippers

Investing in a solid set of hair clippers and cutting your own hair can save you a ton in the long-term on haircut costs. Higher-end hair clippers can be purchased that are practically identical to models that you'll find inside a barbershop or a salon. There are also myriad affordable hair...

How to Move Forward and Stop Repeating The Past

We move through our lives based on patterns of the past, replicating the systems and dynamics that we’ve become accustomed to. Our brains are…

Join Our Tweetchat on Thursday 8/28, 12pm Pacific for a Chance to Win Prizes

Join our Tweetchat this Thursday at 12:00 pm Pacific for lively conversation and a chance to win one of two $10 Amazon GCs! Use #WBChat to participate.

This week's topic: Frugal Fun With Friendsl! Learn about saving on a night out with friends, frugal activities you can do with friends, and...

Best Money Tips: Steps to Make Sure You Buy the Right House

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some amazing articles on making sure you are buying the right house, maximizing your dollar at Subway, and creating work/life balance when your kids return to school.
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Even When Not In Rome…You Should Know Your Roman Numerals

Despite the fall of the Roman Empire millennia ago and despite the ubiquitous, worldwide use of Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.), Roman numerals still pop up regularly in modern society. We see them in the names of popes and monarchs and august events like the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and...

8 Hours? 9 Hours? This Is How Much Sleep You REALLY Need

Ask anyone how much sleep they should be getting and most people will tell you 8 to 9 hours. But new research suggests that you might actually need less sleep than that — possibly as little as 7 hours for full rest and maximum health benefits.

A recent Wall Street Journal article examined...

5 Things to Say to Your Boss to Get a Promotion or Raise

The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and that goes double when it comes to asking for a promotion or a raise.

A 2014 study performed by management consulting firm Accenture found that nearly 80% of employees who ask for a raise, and 70% of employees who ask for a promotion, get one. (See also: 12...

5 Design Legends That Switched Gears in the Middle of Their Careers

Stefan Sagmeister, Muriel Cooper, and other graphic designers who decided on an abrupt change of direction.

Unitasker Wednesday: Snack Spout

The Snack Spout wants to make eating junk food even easier ... because apparently it was too hard to eat junk food before now!
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