Marissa Mayer, the Lady Behind Google Maps

In case you are wondering, Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more are all headed by Marissa Mayer, Google's first woman engineer and Vice-President. She was Google's 20th employee when she first joined it as a start-up company.

Click here to find out her thoughts on being a woman in Google.

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Rehydrate. The Secret to Surviving a Hangover.

Did you know that the reason for the terrible hangover headache is because your body lacks water? When people consume a huge amount of alcohol, the kidneys send the water directly to the body instead of distributing it all over the body. This is the reason why drunk people urinate more often than sober people. Because of the frequent urination, your body's water level begins to go low and your body's organs begin to steal water from the brain. When it does that, the brain's size shrinks. As it does that, the miscellaneous membranes that connect the brain to the skull gets pulled ---- resulting in what else, but that terrible headache. so to stop the pounding anvils, you need to soak you body again in water. You must rehydrate.

Here are more tips on surviving a hangover. 

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You Could Get Sick From Stress

Too much stress can slowly kill you. Here are some illnesses caused by stress: 

Tension Headache

Ulcer

Insomnia

High Blood Pressure and Heart Attack 

For a more detailed discussion on how stress can bring these illnesses about, click here. 

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Stress Related Headache is Different From Migraine

Not all headaches are the same. If your head is pounding in the office, it is best if you examine if the anvils pounding your head are because of stress or migraine. The causes and treatments are different.

Tension headache is caused by stress while a migraine is a neurological disorder. Tension headache can still allow you to work while a migraine is incapacitating.

For a more thorough discussion on tension headache caused by stress and migraine, click here.

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A Phobia List

Did you know that phobia is one of the most common mental disorder in the United States? 

Here are a few phobias:

Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.

Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.

Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.

Androphobia- Fear of men.

Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.

Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.

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What is Stress?

“Everyone knows what stress is, but nobody really knows.” --- take it from Hans Selye, the guy who coined the word stress. 


Stress is hard to define because what is stressful for one person may be relaxing to another. Ever wonder why you can't understand why your mom freaks out when you chill and play hard rock music? 


People (scientists, psychologists and the like) have tried to define stress and so far, this is what it is:  a reaction to objects or events that threaten or upset a person’s balance in some way.

Check out this article to know more about it. 

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4 Easy Steps to Reduce Stress

This article on Office Blabber writes about 4 Easy Steps to Reduce Stress.


In a nutshell, the steps are:

Halt. Take time off from the office and its usual stress.

Micro and Macro Examination. Take a look at the small and big picture of your life to see which causes you stress.

Bold, Underline and Italicize. Decide on what is important and what is not.

Game Plan. Taking all of the above in consideration, make an action plan on how you will be able to cope with the stress.

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