When Will Enough Be Enough?

Every year Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary is updated with new words

. These words are decided on by the dictionary's editors, who carefully monitor the words people use most often and how they use them by means of a long and complicated process. Fifteen words were added in 2012. They were aha moment, bucket list, cloud computing, copernicium, earworm, energy drink, game changer, gassed, gastropub, man cave, mash-up, sexting, systemic risk and underwater. That's 14 words. The 15th word was f-bomb - a word for which my grandmother would have used another four-letter word to wash out the mouths of Merriam-Webster's editors.

Vending machines are everywhere in the U.S. As of 2012, Sprinkles cupcakes are sold in vending machines. The $4 confections are supposedly never more than a few hours old. Twenty-nine airports have fresh flowers in refrigerated machines for $10; and for bigger spenders the Golden Nugget Hotels & Casinos vend gold in bars or coins, with prices updated every 60 seconds. At dozens of art galleries and museums $5 can buy original, pocketsize artwork created by 400 artists from around the world. Maybe the variety of items available in vending machines will inspire a new phrase - "inside the box".

Looking at cute pictures of animals can improve our performance on the job. According to a Japanese study, people performed a variety of tasks faster or more accurately after looking at pictures of kittens and puppies and performed better than those who looked at pictures of adult animals or gourmet meals. Specifically, viewing cute images improved performance using fine motor skills and on detail-oriented tasks. This is attributed to pictures of vulnerable, baby animals inspiring us to be more careful. So, hang up that picture of a puppy sleeping on a keyboard because the "cute factor" is supposedly a fact.

Nail biting isn't just a bad habit anymore. As of 2013 the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders will consider it "pathological grooming" - a normal grooming behavior, such as skin picking or hair pulling, that becomes uncontrollable. That puts nail biting in the same category as obsessive compulsive disorder, which includes people who compulsively wash their hands or check the stove. However, OCD compulsions are unwanted; pathological groomers find their behavior rewarding. In both conditions there are genetic mutations, but having the mutation doesn't mean you get the behavior. Unfortunately, these behaviors can't be that easily "nailed down".

by: Knight Pierce Hirst

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