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2022-08-24 For a More Sustainable Afterlife, Try Human Composting by T.J. Ford As many of us are trying to reduce our impact on the planet while we’re alive — we recycle, we bike, we drive electric cars — it makes sense to think about how to reduce that impact when we die. Unfortunately, the most […]
2022-08-24 Yoga versus democracy? What survey data says about spiritual Americans’ political behavior Evan Stewart, UMass Boston and Jaime Kucinskas, Hamilton College As the United States gets less religious, is it also getting more selfish? Historically, religious Americans have been civically engaged. Through churches and other faith-based organizations, congregants volunteer, engage in local and national civic […]
Cat Wednesday 2022-08-24 Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may have as […]
2022-08-23 Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead As the country grapples with states’ newfound power to regulate abortion in the aftermath of this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, state attorney general candidates are staking claims on what they’ll do to fight […]
2022-08-23 Two surprising reasons behind the obesity epidemic: Too much salt, not enough water Salty french fries may taste good, but they just contribute to dehydration and obesity. William Voon/EyeEm via Getty Images Richard Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Scientific studies and media coverage are rife with warnings on how sugar, carbohydrates, saturated fat […]
2022-08-23 In Tennessee, an Experiment to Manage Behavior with an App by Katherine Lewis On a chilly morning in January 2020, Principal Stephen Byrd leaned towards the 9th grader sitting across the table in his office. Byrd asked the student, an African American teenager with a sparkly stud in one ear, what had happened. He’d […]
2022-08-22 Some Rural Hospitals Are in Such Bad Shape, Local Governments Are Practically Giving Them Away Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio ERIN, Tenn. — Kyle Kopec gets a kick out of leading tours through the run-down hospitals his boss is snapping up, pointing out what he calls relics of poor management left by […]
Self Improvement Made Easy We hear a lot about transforming ourselves – improving ourselves. This is especially true, as we get older, when you’ve already faced many of life’s battles and you aren’t as full of energy to face challenges as you once were. Don’t worry; we’re going to make self improvement easy, […]
The Mystery of Intelligence: Organic and Inorganic Foundations By Robert Depaolo This article discusses a possible aspect of the natural world that transcends the functions of brain and mind, facilitates decision making and intelligent behavior and operates according to electro-information principles. At the root of what could be referred to as […]
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