7 Mindful Things You Should Insist on Doing for Yourself More Often
You can’t lift a thousand pounds all at once, yet you can easily lift one pound a thousand times. Tiny, repeated efforts will get you there. I have witnessed people …
Meaningful, Hilarious and Iconic Sayings
Senior year has begun. It’s a fun and exciting time. But also sometimes a bittersweet time in life. To help you make the most out of it and give you …
Remembering What Truly Matters in a World Chasing Success
“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” ~Albert Einstein, adapted I often feel like I was born into the wrong story. I grew up in …
Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims
New U.S.-Brazil study points to ways of countering election misinformation, political scientists say
Horses may have become rideable with the help of a genetic mutation
Two key gene variants may have made early domesticated horses more tame and more physically resilient to bearing a rider, researchers report August 28 in Science. The resulting horses were …
Warped planet nurseries rewrite the rules of how worlds are born
The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, …
Are farmed oysters, mussels and clams the ultimate green foods?
Tuck into a green dish of bivalves Shutterstock/Plateresca Picture an environmentally friendly food. Your mind might turn to the humble lentil, but is it possible to eat more luxuriously while …
Stalagmites reveal devastating droughts that helped spur Maya breakdown
Series of droughts chronicled in cave rocks likely pushed civilization to breaking point
River turbulence can push toxic pollutants into the air
Toxic pollutants from a Southern California river are infiltrating the air. Polluted water surging along a turbulent section of the Tijuana River in San Diego can release toxic gases, including …
Central Asia’s last stable glaciers just started to collapse
Too little snowfall is now also shaking the foundations of some of the world’s most resilient ‘water towers’, a new study led by the Pellicciotti group at the Institute of …