Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

People search for all kinds of words on google. Here a list of the words that are searched for the most…… Internet users in Egypt, India and Turkey are the world’s most frequent searchers for websites using the keyword “sex” on Google search engines, according to statistics provided by Google Inc. Germany, Mexico and Austria were world’s top three searchers of the word “Hitler” while “Nazi” scored the most hits in Chile, Australia and the United Kingdom, data from 2004 to the present retrievable on the “Google Trends” Web site showed. Chile also came in first place searching for the word “gay,” followed by Mexico and Colombia. The top searchers for other keywords were as follows (in order from first to third place): “Jihad” — Morocco, Indonesia, Pakistan “Terrorism” — Pakistan, Philippines, Australia “Hangover” — Ireland, United Kingdom, United States “Burrito” — United States, Argentina, Canada “Iraq” — United States, Australia, Canada “Taliban” — Pakistan, Australia, Canada “Tom Crui...

Some doctors say that as many as nine of 10 visits to the doctor may be related to stress. But how can you actually reduce stress and avoid a burnout? Instead of staying stressed, a serious attempt must be made to tackle it, so that you can get back fresh and healthy to work even after a stressful event. To control stress, you have to first determine what is the cause. You need to list all the things in your life that you find especially stressful. After you have identified the things you can do something about, and those you cannot control and must learn to accept, you will be a lot more relieved and be able to consciously stop worrying about things you cannot do anything about. Usually, you can find something positive even in the thing that stresses you. You will discover that it is probably not as stressful as you’re making it out to be. Begin each sentence with “at least” whenever you’re stressed out. If you work for a bad boss, remind yourself, “At least I have a job.” At the same...