Using social media activates the brain’s reward center by releasing dopamine. Dopamine is a chemical linked to pleasurable activities, and too much or too little of it has been linked with mental health disorders and challenges.
If you’re looking for chills and thrills beyond Halloween, here are just a few of Iowa’s haunted sites you can visit year-round. Most are close to home, but the most notorious one is in the southwest corner of the state.
Available at Cedar Valley Humane Society
The old fire station at 1111 Third St. SE is starting a new chapter as an AirBNB rental after a storied history in the New Bohemia District.
Two Iowa State University crew club members were participating in their first practice on the water when they drowned in March after their boat capsized in strong winds, according to newly released investigative findings.
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You’d be hard pressed to listen to any political speech or debate and not hear the word family. Whether it’s “middle-class families,” or “immigrant families,” or “the break-down of families,” politicians frequently invoke the term.
With sister city Douglas, these towns harbor culture, cuisine and outdoor adventure near the shores of Lake Michigan.
Taken together, proportion and scale are one of seven design principles. Interior designers use these principles to develop a room.
Local churches’ blessing of the animals ceremonies, an annual tradition in honor of St. Francis, take on many different meanings for local pet owners and spiritual leaders.
Hannah Longmire, of Coralville, was born with a congenital limb difference, which caused her to have her legs amputated below the knee when she was two. Now, with running blades, she’s the fastest girl on her cross country team.
He’s played for four NFL teams, been a Hollywood stunt double for Will Smith, and bungee-jumped out of a helicopter over the Grand Canyon, but some of Quinn Early’s fondest memories involve Iowa City and playing for the Hawkeyes.
Whitson sold chickens for $2 each to get money for flying license, and other fun facts
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