By Heather Callaghan, Editor Researchers have found two simple ways to stave off an early death – and one of them is surprising! Indeed, the daily accomplishment of basic house cleaning (or gardening) can do far more for you than you ever imagined. It can do more for you than just provide […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor This is your best bet of getting the pesticides off your fruit…(Hint: it’s not tap water). Recently, we published a shocking report that many items in the produce section carry residues of one or more pesticides. This means that consumers are literally consuming pesticides on their food, despite […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A Scottish sculptor has harnessed both nature and art in a majestic and bittersweet collision. Andy Goldsworthy creates transitory works of “land art” by carefully arranging leaves, sticks, stones and other offerings from nature. It’s not often that you see someone willing to create art that can be […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Some of us face depression like it’s a daily fact of life. For some it’s a vague, but undiscriminating heaviness that comes and goes like a dark cloud. Some use metaphors to describe their feelings like a black hole – for others it’s a “pit of despair” and […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A class of new, transparent tech can allow us to harvest massive amounts of energy from glass surfaces like building and car windows, cell phones and other translucent surfaces. GNN reports: Scientists at Michigan State University detailed in a paper in the journal Nature Energy how highly transparent solar applications could […]
By Natural Blaze Daydreaming is good. It means you’re smart Brain study suggests mind wandering at work and home may not be as bad as you might think Daydreamers are made to feel their behavior is “deficient” and a sign of “laziness or craziness” but a new study from the […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor No matter what happens in life, we are guaranteed some consistent beauty in this world. A blue sky unless it’s cloudy or artificially shrouded. And lush greenery, for the most part. The world is bursting with vibrant color and the greens in particular can whisk us into tranquility […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor When you think of Einstein you automatically know that E=MC2. But what was his equation for happiness? Back in 1922, the German-born physicist was touring in Tokyo during the time he had just been informed that he won the Nobel Prize for Physics. He was staying at Imperial […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Try an experiment – eat your typical breakfast one day. Whether it has meat or is plant-based doesn’t matter. Note how you feel. On the next day, displace some of your regular ingredients with mushrooms. Now see if you feel fuller for longer. I did the experiment and […]
By Heather Callaghan, Editor America has been relentlessly barraged with tragic stories of Puerto Rico’s devastation following recent hurricanes. The situation has left the world in a precarious situation where we look on helplessly wondering what we can do. Enter: Pure Foundation. We don’t know much about this foundation but it is […]