I'm a nerd.
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Like, a huge nerd. Like, it's difficult to explain just exactly how nerdy I am. Once you think you've discovered the extent of my nerdiness, I'll make an obscure Battlestar Galactica reference or a pun off the name of a famous classical composer or an analogy based on the molecular structure of an atom.
So it should come as a surprise to exactly no one that I'm obsessed with the magazine Wired. Some girls model their lives after Cosmo, some girls obsess over Vogue, but this girl religiously reads a magazine devoted to science and technology.
The most fascinating article (in my opinion) in the August issue was written by Jonah Lehrer and was entitled "Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine."
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Who among us doesn't get stressed at some point in their daily lives? Robert Sapolsky, a researcher at Stanford University, hopes to one day develop an injectable cure for chronic stress, and has already seen promising results in preliminary tests with laboratory rats. I urge everyone to follow the link and read Lehrer's entire article, but if you're short on time, I've added Wired's suggestions on how to proactively reduce stress in your own life (after the jump).
