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What It’s Like to Float in a Sensory-Deprivation Tank

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Floating gravity-free in complete darkness and silence provides a host of putative health benefits, including joint-pain relief and decreased blood pressure. That happened when I wasn’t distracted , when I left my smartphone at home, turned off the TV, stopped turning around to see who was walking through the door of the restaurant.

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‘Maybe the Only Way to Have an Answer to the Unknown Is to Face It Every So Often’

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The lodge has a restaurant with a nice outside patio overlooking a river. There’s a restaurant near my house in Charlotte, North Carolina, that scrolls trivia questions on a few television screens all day. Anyone in the restaurant can play, simply by downloading an app. He paused for a second when talking about the water.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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The captain didn’t hesitate, despite the small chance she could never fly again if having only one remaining kidney left her too weak to pass stringent pilot health standards. In September 2016, Hampton aimed to wipe out that painful experience by creating the Sit With Us app. There’s really no question.” But she was in luck.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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Bobby Berk’s mission to democratize design This innate sense of the correlation between mental health and design has shaped Berk’s life and career. At 17, he moved to Denver and worked odd jobs, including at restaurants, gas stations and retail stores. He was homeless for a while, living out of his car.

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