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☆ Playing with dogs may help you relax and focus, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Kristen Rogers | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —If you decompress by playing with dogs or checking their adorable videos on social media, you might be onto something. Playing with your dog may not just be good for your pet — it could also benefit your emotional health, according to a new study. The authors measured participants’ brain waves, using electroencephalogram tests, or EEGs, for three minutes during each activity. Different activities had varying effects on participants’ brain waves. Grooming, playing and gently massaging the dog was linked with strengthened beta-band oscillation, which is associated with heightened attention and concentration.

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☆ Tulsa offered remote workers $10,000 to move there. The results show how the program shook up the local economy — and what the future of smaller cities could look like.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

At the end of 2022, Tulsa Remote had brought in almost $307 million in direct labor income to the economy, according to Tulsa Remote. For every two Tulsa Remote members who move to the city, three more come with them. But what happens to the rest of the economy when remote workers come to town? Remote workers coming to town benefited high-skilled local service workers — workers who have at least some college education — more, per the research, since they had more variety in local goods to choose from and consume and are making more money. “There are people who definitely get more benefit out of it, like homeowners or the local service sector workers,” Yoo said.

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☆ South Koreans set to become younger as traditional way of counting age is scrapped
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea on Thursday passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard, a shift that will make its citizens either one or two years younger on official documents. Koreans are deemed to be a year old when born and a year is added every Jan. 1. A separate system also exists for conscription purposes or calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke, in which a person’s age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on Jan. 1. Since the early 1960s, however, South Korea has for medical and legal documents also used the international norm of calculating from zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday. “The revision is aimed at reducing unnecessary socioeconomic costs because legal and social disputes as well as confusion persist due to the different ways of calculating age,” Yoo Sang-bum of the governing People Power Party told Parliament.

Seoul, South Korea CNN —South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law passed on Thursday that aims to standardize how age is calculated in the country. In South Korea, a person’s “international age” refers to the number of years since they were born, and starts at zero – the same system used in most other countries. Born on December 31, 1977, he is considered 44 by international age; 45 by calendar year age; and 46 by Korean age. The law passed Thursday will standardize the use of international age across all “judicial and administrative areas,” according to the parliament website and documents related to the bill. “The state and local governments shall encourage citizens to use their ‘international age’ and conduct necessary promotion for that,” it says.

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