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#LGBTQ+  #queercafés #Cuties #VirginiaBauman  #IrisBainumHoule  Across the country, queer cafés, mixers, and stores are providing options that aren't gay bars — and that's revolutionary. On any given day in Los Angeles, LGBTQ+ locals and tourists have few choices when it comes to finding other queer and trans people — at least, in a space that’s not a bar. The go-tos , especially for cisgender gay men of legal drinking age, are gay bars, largely found in the tony city of West Hollywood. But for everyone else who identifies as LGBTQ+, such spaces are less than ideal, and for youth and those who are sober or in recovery, they aren’t an option at all. That's one reason Virginia Bauman and her business partner Iris Bainum-Houle opened  Cuties , a queer-owned, operated, and focused café in East Hollywood. Open daily from mornings into late afternoons, with events often hosted in the evenings, Cuties is an accessible, alcohol-free spot for LGBTQ+ people to just...

Dr. Corey Yeager explains how arguments aren't in and of themselves a bad thing. WCCO Mid-Morning - March 13, 2019

#Creativity #Insight #Problemsolving #Aha #Eureka  Carola Salvi  is a  neuroscience -based researcher at Northwestern University who focuses on deconstructing the specific neural mechanisms that drive  creativity  and “Insight” problem-solving. Insight is key to having so-called "'Aha!" or "Eureka!" moments. The million-dollar question for Salvi and her colleagues in the  Creative Brain Lab  is to figure out how ideas are born inside the brain, how these ideas develop in people's minds, and what causes a sudden flash of insight to spring into conscious awareness. Last month, Salvi and her colleague  Edward Bowden  published a paper on risk and creativity, “ The Relation Between State and Trait Risk Taking and Problem-Solving ,” in the journal  Psychological Research . This groundbreaking research unearths some fascinating new clues about the inner workings of “Aha!” moments. In an email, Carola Salvi told me, “Th...

#speedlimit #JohnMoorlach #Autobahn #Interstate5  #California #Route99 State Senator John Moorlach proposed a bill that would add four lanes to two highways, Interstate 5 and California State Route 99, with no speed limit. After years of seeing posted highway speeds creep up around the country, perhaps it's no surprise that a California legislator would propose the ultimate in motoring freedom: no limits at all. State Sen. John Moorlach's vision for a Golden State version of Germany's famed Autobahn — a stretch of pavement where you can drive as fast you want — is just the latest in a series of moves by states to put the pedal to the metal when it comes to speed limits. It's happening even as safety experts try to throw on the brakes on speeds that have now reached legal levels they view as somewhere between risky and downright dangerous. "We have routinely seen studies that show when states raise speed limits, they can expect higher deaths," s...

#Anxiety #DefenseMechanisms We all have thoughts, feelings, impulses and memories that can be difficult to deal with. In some cases, people deal with such feelings by utilizing what are known as defense mechanisms. These defense mechanisms are unconscious psychological responses that protect people from feelings of anxiety, threats to self esteem, and things that they don't want to think about or deal with.1 The term got its start in psychoanalytic therapy, but it has slowly worked its way into the parlance of everyday language. Think of the last time you referred to someone as being "in denial" or accused someone of "rationalizing." Both of these examples refer to a type of defense mechanism. So What Exactly Is a Defense Mechanism? Most notably used by  Sigmund Freud  in his psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism is a tactic developed by the ego to protect against anxiety. 2  Defense mechanisms are thought to safeguard the mind against...