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Connecting with Nature Boosts Creativity and Health
Children in the modern world suffer from what one author has called “nature deficit disorder,” a lack of opportunities to enjoy and explore the natural world. Learn about the benefits nature provides children’s developing minds.
Why Taking Breaks Will Help You Get More Work Done
Through this quick animation, discover why breaking up your work will make you more productive. Be sure to try out some of the tips for yourself!
Another Obama Decision Reversed? Now It’s About Food Safety.
This article documents the current disputes about the safety of workers in the meat processing and meat packing industry.
Art Therapy: Self-Expression Reduces Stress
Read about why expressing yourself shouldn’t be considered a luxury. Then find tips for ways to work self-expression into your daily life.
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.