Amit's friends have started complaining that he doesn't have much time to hang out because he spends too much time working, studying, and volunteering. he thinks that these things are important to put on his college applications, so he wants to continue these activities. what is the best step for amit to try next if he continues to feel pressured by his friends? cut back on the activities to keep his friends happy and hope it won't hurt his chances at getting into college. explain the importance of these activities for getting into college, and invite the friends to join him. find new friends who already like these activities, and never speak to these negative friends again. explain the value of these activities, and then change the topic each time his friends comment about his activities in the future.

to prevent people from getting the ebola virus, countries around the world paid to doctors develop a new vaccine. now that the vaccine has been made, doctors will need to experiment on a large number of people to find out if it works safely.

what is the greatest limitation that scientists are dealing with as they try to figure out how to experiment with the ebola vaccine?

meditation is a practice of sitting still and quiet for minutes or even hours. it has been practiced for thousands of years and is even a part of religious practices for some people. carefully controlled, repeated measurements of brain activity have shown that meditation does increase certain chemicals in the brain and even grows the part of the brain that people connect with their current surroundings and activities.

are claims about the effects of meditation most likely scientific or pseudoscientific?

not pseudoscientific, because people have made claims about it but scientific observations have not been made