Follow the MythBusters in this 11-episode set as they debunk, decode and demystify some of the most popular urban myths and legends. Using modern-day science, they put each myth to the test, separating the real from the really out there.
Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist
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There are many words to describe Michael J. Fox: Actor. Husband. Father. Activist. But readers of Always Looking Up will soon add another to the list: Optimist. Michael writes about the hard-won perspective that helped him see challenges as opportunities. Instead of building walls around himself, he developed a personal policy of engagement and discovery: an emotional, psychological, intellectual, and spiritual outlook that has served him throughout his struggle with Parkinson's disease.
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In today’s modern world, most human societies are rapidly evolving. This evolution goes hand in hand with scientific discoveries being made in the areas of technology, sociology, human behavior, and...medicine. An unfortunate stress has almost become a dirty word nowadays! Hans Selye, who coined the term, used it to describe the psychological reactions of an organism when adapting to all forms of aggression. He hardly imagined the importance of his discovery. Present day societies are both the authors and hostages of their own evolution, which has become an inexhaustible source of mental destabilization.
In the April issue of Men’s Journal, on newsstands now, cover subject Bear Grylls dishes the secrets of survival, from how to handle fear of failure and high-cholesterol to how to turn a watch into a compass and build a log armchair raft. The Daredevil host of the Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild eats goat testicle, bushwhacks through jungles, falls from planes, and lives to tell us about it.
