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Watching when people blink can help you tell whether you have their attention. source https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/neuroscience-just-discovered-a-weird-way-to-tell-when-someone-is-really-listening-to-you/91279675

How to instantly win people over with some Italian influence. source https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/this-1-tweak-to-your-body-language-makes-you-much-more-persuasive-says-a-study-of-2000-ted-talks/91276871

Balancing on a railroad-tie-size beam of a platform floating in Spain’s Vigo Bay, Ricardo Tur crouches and points below. Dangling several feet underwater is a pen the size of a garden shed, home to 80 octopuses.  I squat too, hoping to glimpse even a single arm—there are 640 of them down there! In my excitement, I lean too far andContinueContinue reading “Octopus could be the next commercially farmed seafood. Should it be?”

The small American bookstore is back. Over the last five years, the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. jumped by 70%. In 2025 alone, 422 new bookstores opened, according to the American Booksellers Association. The industry’s success was far from inevitable. For a long time, indie bookstores were struggling. In 1995, when Amazon openedContinueContinue reading “Indie bookstores are making a shocking, triumphant comeback”

As readers look to curl up with a proverbial good book this winter—and put their holiday bookstore gift cards to work—they’ll be faced with an obvious question: What should they pick up next?  “People find it much harder than you think, because there’s so much choice out there,” says Rachel Van Riel, founder and owner of the bookContinueContinue reading “These sites and apps will help you assemble the perfect holiday reading list”