Kelly McGonical: How to make stress your friend Stress make people sick, it increases the risk of everything from the common cold to cardiovascular disease. Stress can make us healthier, when we change our mind about stress we can change our body’s respond to stress. To know deeply about that, we need to talk about hormone, oxytocin. Oxytocin is a neuro hormone. It fine tunes our brain’s social instincts. Oxytocin make us crave physical contact with our friends and family. It enhances our empathy. When oxytocin released in the stress response it is motivating us to seek support. This stress hormone strengthens our heart and the cool thing is all of these physical benefits of oxytocin enhanced by social contact.
John McWhorter: texting is killing language Texting is miraculous thing, Seeing back what language is. Language has existed perhaps 150 thousand years ago. At the time people do speak instead of writing. texting is not writing at all. Writing is something that came along much later. First there’s speech then writing comes along. Base on history, there is natural relation between speech and writing such as when we listen a speech basically talk like writing. Texting is very low structure, no one think about punctuation capital letter. And other something wrong with texting such as using of LOL (laughing out lout), most of people use because it’s a new trend among people today.