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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 23 views
Most people look for a coffee shop with free Wi-Fi and get annoyed if that service isn’t provided. A Canadian coffee shop tried the opposite approach. The Faraday Café was built to repel and jam cell phone signals and was the first such shop in the world to try and deliberately create a wireless “black…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
A new Gallup poll found that 17% of Americans named Ebola as America’s “most urgent health problem.” That is a much larger percentage than those naming our real heath problems, obesity, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, or substance abuse. Two people have died in the US from Ebola compared to the millions…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
From 2002 to 2005, before the days of reality TV, UCLA recruited 32 local families who agreed to let themselves be videotaped during every waking, at home moment during a week. It was a sociological study aimed at a new “species”: The dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. They…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 2 views
By the way, that destruction isn’t just theoretical either. It’s real! Fear will kill you! During the Gulf War of 1991, Iraq launched a series of Scud missile attacks against Israel. Many Israeli citizens died as a result of these attacks. After the war was over, Israeli scientists analyzed the official…
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A counseling center hotline used the following voicemail message: “Thank you for calling. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5 and 6. If you are paranoid-delusional,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
STRESS The poor economy is forcing many Americans to tighten their financial belts, and experts say for many people the hard times also mean tighter clothing as they turn to fatty and sugary comfort foods to ease daily stress. Clinical psychologist and emotional eating expert Denise Lamothe says research…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 15 views
STRESS Stress kills. It creates problems ranging from headaches to heart attacks. According to the World Health Organization, it is a “World Wide Epidemic,” and the United Nations named it “The 20th Century Disease” in 1992. --http://arfster.multiply.com/journal/item/466 . Illustration by Jim L. Wilson…
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 12 views
After spending three and a half hours enduring the long lines, surly clerks and insane regulations at the Department of Motor Vehicles, a man stopped at a toy store to pick up a gift for his son. He brought his selection — a baseball bat — to the cash register. "Cash or charge?" the clerk asked. "Cash,"…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 10 views
A little girl was pushing the limits of her mother’s very last nerve. Mom was nearing the end of a hectic season of cooking, cleaning, shopping, wrapping and church stuff. She was also nearing the breaking point with her little pre-schooler. Finally the little girl was bathed and ready for bed. As she…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 2 views
STRESS From 1992 – 2002 Swedish researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm tracked more than 3000 men, rating them and their perceptions about their bosses. By the end of the study, 74 of the men had suffered heart attacks or other serious cardiac events. The lower an employer’s leadership…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 3 views
A chiropractor was known for having a big sign on the wall in his waiting room that asked, "When you wear out this body, then where will you live?" On September 5, 2004, the New York Times reported that "workplace stress costs the nation more than $300 billion each year in health care, missed work, and…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 6 views
James Fixx is the author of popular books on running. His most widely circulated book is The Complete Book of Running, in which he has a section describing some of the mental quirks that happen in a race. He writes, "When we race, strange things happen to our minds. The stress of fatigue sometimes makes…
Jon Rohr • Illustration • • 4 views
Pastors have the second-highest divorce rate among professions. (Monday Morning Insight 11/27/06) *
Rich DeRuiter • Illustration • • 5 views
A man was pushing a shopping cart containing a screaming, thrashing, bouncing baby boy through a supermarket. The man kept repeating such admonitions as, “Don’t yell, Brian. Calm down, Brian. Don’t get excited, Brian.” A woman standing next to him said, “You certainly are to be commended, young man,…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 12 views
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phone? What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets? What if we flipped through it several time a day? What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it? What if we used it to receive messages from the text? What if…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 4 views
I hired a plumber to help me restore an old farmhouse, and after he had just finished a rough first day on the job: a flat tire made him lose an hour of work, his electric drill quit, and his ancient one ton truck refused to start. While I drove him home, he sat in stony silence. On arriving, he invited…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 1 view
I needed a few days off work, but I knew the Boss would not allow me to take a leave. I thought that maybe if I acted "CRAZY" then he would tell me to take a few days off. So I hung upside down on the ceiling and made funny noises. My co-worker (who's blonde) asked me what I was doing. I told her that…
John Leffler • Illustration • • 13 views
Rest and relaxation doesn't seem to come as easily or naturally to Americans as it does to those in other nations. According to the 2006 World Almanac and Book of Facts: • a worker in Italy averages 42 vacation days per year. • a worker in France: 37 days • a worker in Germany: 35 days • a worker in…
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Exam supervisors at a German university stuck to rules so rigidly that a man with a bladder dysfunction had to urinate in a bottle in front of 120 fellow students because they would not let him go to the toilet. Overseers at the University of Freiburg in southwestern Germany told the…