What Science Says About Fat-Burning Foods, Do Great Things by Being a Part of Something Greater, and Telling Male and Female Dinosaurs Apart

Learn about whether “fat-burning foods” are a real thing; why we probably can’t tell male and female dinosaurs apart; and how you can do great things by seeing yourself as part of something greater.

Are "fat-burning foods" a real thing? Scientists performed a critical review to find out by Andrea Michelson

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We probably can't tell male and female dinos apart by Grant Currin

• Can we really tell male and female dinosaurs apart? (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/qmuo-cwr051120.php
• Hone D, Mallon JC, Hennessey P, Witmer LM. 2020. Ontogeny of a sexually selected structure in an extant archosaur Gavialis gangeticus (Pseudosuchia: Crocodylia) with implications for sexual dimorphism in dinosaurs. PeerJ 8:e9134 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9134
• Gharial. (2016, May 5). Nationalgeographic.com. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/g/gharial/
• National Geographic Society. (2011, April 29). Paleontology. National Geographic Society. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/paleontology/

To Do Great Things, See Yourself as Part of Something Greater by Reuben Westmaas

• Lamothe, C. (2017, July 12). Peak Performance: The cognitive trick that elite athletes use to achieve seemingly impossible goals. Quartz; Quartz. https://qz.com/1026992/the-cognitive-trick-that-elite-athletes-use-to-achieve-seemingly-impossible-goals/
• Fliegel, J. (2015, September 4). 6 Ways to Motivate Individuals to Become a Winning Team - Jordan Fliegel. Jordan Fliegel. https://jordanfliegel.com/blog/6-ways-to-motivate-individuals-to-become-a-winning-team/
• Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work | Academy of Management Review. (2019). Academy of Management Review. https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/amr.2001.4378011
• Pick up “Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success” on Amazon https://amazon.com

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