This month, as we wrap up Dare to Improve and switch gears to Dare to Fuel, we finish strong with three books on how to improve, prioritize, and draw more satisfaction from life. Whether you’re looking to optimize your routine to fit more of what you enjoy into life or to enhance your everyday environment, [...]

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In the last 150 years the human experience has become faster-paced, more stimulated, and much more scheduled. If we zoom back and digest this in the context of how long human beings have been around (about 60,000 years), it is clear that our human instrument is grappling to adapt to a very different lifestyle. While [...]

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If Eric Chudler could design the perfect children’s television show, he would fuse three elements: dinosaurs, outer space, and the brain: “Those are three things almost every kid can get into.” But budgets being what they are—and technology to clone dinosaurs or launch rockets into deep space lagging behind recent advances in the field of [...]

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It happens to the best of us: one week we’re killing it in the gym and earning PRs left and right, the next we can’t get off the couch. Workout ruts are about as common in fitness routines as sore muscles and they’re certainly nothing to be ashamed of. But you don’t want to hang [...]

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As part of the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the federal government officially recognized February as Black History Month. President Gerald Ford urged Americans to use the time as an “opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.” Dr. Azita Emami, Dean of the School of Nursing, [...]

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Simplify. I don’t know how many times my husband has used this word over the years. Any time I complain or struggle with something, his answer is the same. There’s too much to do! Simplify. I’m running late! Simplify. I can’t find my keys! Simplify. How could simplify be the answer to so many of [...]

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Last October, a University of Washington research team presented a study at The Geological Society of America’s annual meeting in Seattle that simulated 50 different scenarios for a magnitude-9.0 earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone—a large rift in the Earth’s crust 50 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast. There, the Pacific sea floor of the Juan [...]

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Kartoffelpuffer (German potato pancakes) bring back fond memories of Germany for me. Throughout my childhood and young adulthood, my Oma (Grandmother) would regularly make these and this tradition is continued by my mother to this date.  I can see my mother now, standing over the stove with the crackling sounds and smells of frying Kartoffelpuffer [...]

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This February, take a step back to assess your overall wellbeing and then take strides forward to your wellness goals as we Dare to Improve. With tons of events focused on stress management, meditation, financial wellbeing, and overall organization, February is sure to help you build on progress you made in January to building a better, [...]

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We all have that song—the piece of music that gets us moving in the morning. The one that taps a hidden reserve of energy during a workout in pursuit of a personal best or which settles the nerves at the end of a stressful day. It’s the one that really takes you back, spurs you [...]

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