LifeScript—Ellen Wlody reports: We talked to top experts and here are the 8 things you must confess at your next visit… 1. You’re taking vitamins, herbs or supplements. You pop […]
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Dear Body
Washington Post – Casey Seidenberg writes a letter for her body as a model for her children as they begin the new year. … Dear Body, Thank you for being […]
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The Populist Revolution: Bernie and Beyond
Wise woman Ellen Brown has been suggesting for many years that we need a political-economic system that serves each citizen and every citizen. This is her newest essay. Today’s article is reposted […]
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Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers
BBC Technology – Designs for passenger pods that could travel through airless tubes have been revealed by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Hyperloop is a conceptual […]
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Microcephaly: ‘It’s not the end of the world’
BBC Medical Science – Microcephaly has come to prominence since the news reports of the Zika virus being linked to birth defects. The condition causes the head to be small in […]
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Greatest Poems Ever Written
Epoch Times – Evan Mantyk reports: For your education, enjoyment, and (perhaps) excitement, this is a list of the greatest poems originally written in the English language. It is presented […]
Continue reading2015 was Hottest Year on Record
Bloomberg Business – To say that 2015 was hot is an understatement. The average recorded temperature across the surface of the planet was so far above normal that it set […]
Continue readingWealth of richest 1% ‘equal to other 99%’
BBC Business News – The richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. It uses data from Credit Suisse from October […]
Continue readingInequality and Modernization
Foreign Affairs – Ronald Inglehart writes: During the past century, economic inequality in the developed world has traced a massive U-shaped curve—starting high, curving downward, then curving sharply back up […]
Continue readingKenny’s Window: A Book Review
brainpickings – Maria Popova writes: “I don’t write for children,” Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928–May 8, 2012) told Stephen Colbert in his last on-camera appearance. “I write—and somebody says, ‘That’s […]
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