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The Healing Power of Animals
Do you have any pets in your family? Excluding chewing of furniture…do you ever get a sense of the benefits a pet like a dog can bring to your family’s health and well being? Bonding with pets can promote emotional, physical and social benefits.
Forgiveness: Letting go of grudges and bitterness
The Mayo Clinic offers tips on forgiving those who hurt us and explains why it’s important to do so.
Health insurance can make a life or death difference, study says
The topic of health insurance may not seem very exciting, but it has a clear, documented impact on our lives.
Why You Should ‘Rewild’ Your Diet to Help Your Microbiome
“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard that, but researchers are digging in to how what we eat affects our internal ecosystems.
Innovative Audubon Program Connects Elders with Alzheimer’s to the Outdoors While Creating Healthy Bird Habitats
An Audubon Society program for nursing homes and assisted-living facilities, Bird Tales is intended to help people with dementia connect to the natural world. By encouraging elderly patients to create better habitats for native bird populations, both communities benefit.
Johns Hopkins researchers say they’ve unlocked key to cancer metastasis and how to slow it
Cancer cells are our own cells, changed to reproduce rapidly. A young medical researcher figured out what triggers the life-threatening change that spreads cancer cells throughout the body.
Invisibles at Work, Take a Bow!
Many talented people do their jobs so well that they are almost invisible. Find out who these workers are and why they derive more satisfaction from their work than from fame or money.
Fear prompts teens to act impulsively
People react to threats and fear in different ways. Self-control can help avoid a dangerous confrontation. However, a new study suggests that teens’ brains are not wired to back down in the face of a threat.
Optical Illusions: When Your Brain Can’t Believe Your Eyes
How do optical illusions fool us? In this article, Cari Nierenberg explores the root cause: a mismatch between what the eyes perceive and how the brain interprets the information.
Ebola vaccine gives 100% protection, study finds
Only a few short years ago, the ebola virus devastated areas of West Africa and terrified the world. Thanks to diligent research, though, it no longer threatens lives.
Breaking the Silence
A child with selective mutism may speak normally at home but feel unable to speak in other situations.
The Nature Cure
James Hamblin, a skeptical medical doctor, explores the benefits of ecotherapy.
Experiments show how quickly we adjust to seeing everything upside-down
Imagine spending every minute of every day seeing everything upside down. Simple tasks like pouring a glass of juice would be far from automatic, but only at first.
Motherboard Knows Best: Should a Computer Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
It turns out that a computer running a mathematical formula can more accurately predict patients’ wishes than family members can. But should a computer be allowed to override a human in a life-or-death situation?
The teenage brain on social media
A recent study digs into how susceptible teens are to peer pressure online.
Phobia Makes Spiders Appear Larger Than They Are
Believe it or not, fear actually alters the way we perceive things!
Teens, Your Brain Needs Real Food
We all know nutrition is important for our well-being, but this article explains why it’s especially important for teenagers to maintain a balanced, healthy diet.
Tasmanian devil milk fights superbugs
Marsupial babies develop in the not-terribly-sanitary environment of the mother’s pouch. To protect their young from infection, the milk of marsupials such as the Tasmanian devil has powerful antibiotic properties—properties that may help humans.
Are Kids Happier than Adults?
Do you think you will you be happier as an adult than you were as a child? This article provides some interesting food for thought.