When you take the popular phrase “Follow your bliss” and trace it back to its source, something more powerful was intended. In a late interview the famous expert on mythology…

April hasn’t been kind to the South of Spain. It’s been battered by high winds and, in some areas, the biggest rainfall in 70 years, with 3-meter-high waves and flash…

Choosing courage over comfort is bravery. Choosing courage over fear of criticism will lead you to great experiences in this life, professionally, emotionally and physically. Choosing fear of criticism will…

Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries. The rest of the world is finally listening in. Harry Brower Sr. was lying in a hospital bed in Anchorage, Alaska,…

talian scientists have found evidence that a daily dose of cocoa acts as a dietary supplement to counteract different types of cognitive decline. Back in 2017, the team found that…

How Lakota Culture Is Helping Treat Child Trauma Greg Grey Cloud is combining traditional Lakota horse rituals with equine therapy to treat PTSD—and much more. Greg Grey Cloud stands in…

There was once a stone cutter who was dissatisfied with himself and with his position in life. One day he passed a wealthy merchant’s house. Through the open gateway, he…

Let’s get some things straight. Passover is a springtime Jewish festival celebrating the early Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and freedom from slavery. Jews observe it by hosting a ritual dinner,…

As an introverted child, I lived partly in a small suburb in Minnesota and partly in my imagination. I was content spending whole afternoons by myself, writing books on construction paper and…

Great areas of our rubbish are known to form in parts of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. But no such “garbage patch” has been found in the Southern Indian Ocean.…

Nothing spoils a nice drive like the creeping feeling of car sickness, but don’t get too mad – this queasiness could actually be an indication that your brain is working…

It’s been the summer of love for kakapo parrots in New Zealand. Some of the most endangered birds on the planet spent the summer down under getting busy, and conservation…

Just in time for 4/20, a CBS News poll shows that Americans increasingly support legalizing marijuana. The April 9-14 poll of 1,010 adults, 65 percent of whom said they support…

Packed alongside supplies and equipment bound for the International Space Station on an otherwise routine SpaceX resupply run, something rather special is headed to orbit next week: a refrigerator-sized instrument…

A new study suggests that doctors return to more natural and holistic roots by prescribing healthy foods and an improved diet for some Americans.  Long stuck in a culture where…

Facebook has admitted to harvesting 1.5 million users’ email contacts without their consent, but claims it did so “unintentionally”. The social network began collecting contact lists following a design change to…

“Beer before liquor, never been sicker”—by now (and probably from personal experience) we all know this rule to be true. But when it comes to alcohol and weed, where’s our…

As much as I loathe to admit it, I’m not a fan of meditation. It comes unnaturally to me, despite my 36 years of martial arts study and interest in…

Many years ago, I attended some meetings of a spiritual group whose ideas interested me. I liked the teacher and author who had started the group. I thought his theories…

The woman who blew open the Cambridge Analytica scandal says Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are ‘handmaidens to authoritarianism’ Journalist Carole Cadwalladr took the stage at TED 2019 on Monday,…

An Atheist Prayer. Stunningly beautiful. (Updated Country Coding)

Although we don’t often put it this way, the most important relationship in everyone’s life is with the mind. The late Stephen Hawking drew the world’s attention by leading a…

Being your authentic self can feel risky now in our screen-obsessed world. We’re just trying to fit in, be liked, and be accepted by other human beings. And as a result,…