Monday, 16 March 2015

5 steps to give up junk food and get more sleep

Kick those health habits: How to give up junk food and get more sleep

Most of us have a habit we'd like to change, but there's no magic "one size fits all" solution. So how can you really change those behaviors?That's the focus of New York Times best-selling author Gretchen Rubin, who joined TODAY Monday to talk tips from her new book "Better Than Before.

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Note-writing robots pen letters in your handwriting

A New York City-based startup has created robots that can learn your handwriting -- and turn digital notes you write into letters penned on crisp stationery that look like you hand-wrote them yourself.The startup, called Bond, instructs customers to send in a writing sample. Calligraphers who work at the company help digitize the handwriting in part by hand-tracing the letters.

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Are smartphones making us lazy thinkers?

Phone numbers. Directions. That guy who plays the main character in "Gremlins." These are the kind of things people look up on their phones.But is that making us lazier? Are we mental couch potatoes outsourcing all our thinking to our devices?

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