Why Do Small Choices Feel Stressful?
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Why everyday decisions feel so stressful – and what to do about it
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'Tis the Season for Allergies: Managing Christmas Tree Syndrome
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Christmas tree syndrome: why the festive evergreen can make your nose run – and what you can do about it
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American Democracy: An Ongoing Experiment in Freedom
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Why Franklin, Washington and Lincoln considered American democracy an ‘experiment’ – and were unsure if it would survive
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The Significance of AI in Mathematics: OpenAI's New Breakthrough
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Why OpenAI developing an artificial intelligence that’s good at maths is such a big deal
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InnerSelf Magazine: December 4, 2023
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Our articles this week take a look at various paths of connection, and also at some of the consequences of disconnection.
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Current Week Astrological Overview and Horoscope: December 4-10, 2023
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This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your…
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Astrological Overview and Horoscope: December 4-10, 2023
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This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your…
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Stop Monkey Mind: Practice Awareness of No-Thought
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“No-thought” comes from a Zen expression that literally means “the mind without the mind.” This refers to a mind that is calm, balanced, and unoccupied by self-centered thoughts or emotion...
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Facing Our Shortcomings from a Place of Love
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I’ve made mistakes. Many. I’ve done things I am not proud of. Repeatedly. We can’t correct the wrongs we’ve committed in our lives, but we can try not to repeat them.
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Paths of Connection and the End of Suffering
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Perhaps the most important thing that spirituality can teach us is that it is possible for us to cultivate connection. We don’t have to live in a state of disconnection.
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Anthropocene Awakening: Earth's Environmental Crossroads
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In 2000, Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul J. Crutzen proposed that the epoch known as the Holocene, which started some 11,700 years ago, had reached its end.
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Rethinking Immune Health: Balance Over Boost
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Immune health is all about balance – an immunologist explains why both too strong and too weak an immune response can lead to illness
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The Hidden Harmful Health Effects of Vinegar
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In 1998, a group of researchers at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical University of Innsbruck (Austria) observed that high vinegar consumption can have three main harmful effects:
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Which Blood Sugar Monitor Is Best?
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Monitoring the level of glucose (sugar) in your blood is vital if you have diabetes. You get results in real time, which allows you to adjust your medications, exercise and food accordingly.
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Don't Let Burnout Ruin Your Holidays
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It’s beginning to look a lot like burnout. How to take care of yourself before the holidays start
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When Antibiotics Are Not the Answer: Making Informed Choices
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Do you really need antibiotics? Curbing our use helps fight drug-resistant bacteria
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Unveiling the Impact of Nanoplastics on Brain Health
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Since it was first produced at the start of the 20th century, synthetic plastic – and especially plastic packaging – has been an ever-present fixture in everyday life. Yet all the convenience plastic has given us comes at a price.
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The UN Emissions Gap Report: Are We on Track to Curb Climate Change?
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As the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations around limiting global warming to 1.5°C will confront a harsh reality.
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US-China Pledge to Tackle Climate Crisis
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The relationship between the US and China is the most important in the world, and it has been unstable and sometimes under extreme stress in recent years.
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Sugar—Not So Sweet?
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Most of us have been raised on a carbohydrate-based diet, which means we’re slaves to glucose. As your body digests starches, glucose is the result.
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Modern Stoicism: Navigating Life's Challenges with Ancient Wisdom
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Stoicism and spirituality: A philosopher explains how more Americans’ search for meaning is turning them toward the classics
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All the Good Happening in the World
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I write this as one who, many years ago, practiced journalism and created in French-speaking Africa a quarterly magazine that was lauded for its fundamentally positive approach to all issues, while at the same time remaining sharply realistic.
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Dementia Prevention: The Power of Lifestyle Choices
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Lifestyle changes can reduce dementia risk by maintaining brain plasticity — but the time to act is now
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Encouraging Kids to Give Back: Proven Strategies for Parents
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3 ways to encourage kids to be more charitable and kind this holiday season
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Horoscope Previous Week: November 27-December 3, 2023
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This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your…
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Weighing Parenthood in the Shadow of Global Warming
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Climate crisis: what to consider if you’re questioning whether to have children
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Why Bullies Act Out: Exploring the Causes of Mean Behavior
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Why are bullies so mean? A youth psychology expert explains what’s behind their harmful behavior
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Rise of Far-Right Politics: Understanding the Mainstream Influence
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Look to the mainstream to explain the rise of the far right Javier Milei in Argentina. Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
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InnerSelf Magazine: November 27, 2023
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The expression about finding oneself between "a rock and a hard place" is one we've probably all identified with at some time in our life, and probably more so in the past few years.
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Astrological Overview and Horoscope: November 27-December 3, 2023
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This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your…
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Committing to the Journey: Your Business, Your Heart, and the World
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The journey you’re on with your business is a relationship: a relationship with your own heart, with your business, with the world.
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The Law of Similars: Homeopathy and Nano-Medicine
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Homeopathy’s central dictum, the law of similars (use like to cure like), may be restated: In the appropriate situation, illness or disease symptoms are effectively addressed by a substance whose otherwise toxic effect is to produce equivalent or similar symptoms.
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Eight Points of Pain that Adoptees Need to Heal
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We’re not here, as adoptees, to live someone else’s life. My desire to get to the truth of me and to reignite the light within me has taken me on a transformational journey...
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Understanding the Impact of Co-Sleeping on Babies and Parents
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Is sleeping with your baby a good idea? Here’s what the science says
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Why Washing Chicken is a Bad Idea
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Chicken doesn’t need to be washed before cooking – here’s why
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Mobile Phones for Kids: Finding the Right Age and Safety Balance
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When to give your child their first mobile phone – and how to keep them safe
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Shocking Findings: Coal Pollution's Impact on Mortality Rates
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Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths than scientists realized, study shows
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Ensuring a Healthy Holiday: Thanksgiving Food Safety Essentials
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This Thanksgiving − and on any holiday − these steps will help prevent foodborne illness
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Understanding America's Diminishing Faith in Vaccination
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Americans have less confidence in vaccines to address a variety of illnesses than they did just a year or two ago, and more people accept misinformation about vaccines and COVID-19, according to a recent health survey.
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The Overlooked US Crisis: Economic Struggles in the Rural Southern States
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For a brief moment in the summer of 2023, the surprise No. 1 song “Rich Men North of Richmond” focused the country’s attention on a region that often gets overlooked in discussions of the U.S. economy.
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Navigating the Effects of Compassion Fatigue in a Troubled World
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Compassion fatigue can happen to anyone — here’s how you can overcome it
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InnerSelf Magazine: November 20, 2023
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The Universe has a way of bringing to our attention exactly what we need at that moment...
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Wetiko: A Counterfeit Version of Who We Really Are
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I’d like to introduce the term nightmare mind-virus as a synonym for wetiko. This coinage captures an aspect of this virus of the mind that adds to and complements the name wetiko.
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Powers of the Dash Diet: A Game-Changer for Women’s Memory
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With more than 30 years follow-up, we found that the stronger the adherence to a DASH diet in midlife, the less likely women are to report cognitive issues much later in life,
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The Magic of Cranberries: They Bounce, Float and Self-Pollinate
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Cranberries are a staple in U.S. households at Thanksgiving – but how did this bog dweller end up on holiday tables?
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Can We Break Free from the Grip of Harmful Forever Chemicals (PFAS)?
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PFAS: how research is uncovering damaging effects of ‘forever chemicals’
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Astrological Overview and Horoscope: November 20-26, 2023
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This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your…
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Can Some Foods Protect You Against Heart Disease and Alzheimer’s?
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A century of research shows eating these compounds can help protect against heart disease and Alzheimer’s.
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Abandoned Oil Rigs and Their Hidden Potential
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Abandoned oil rigs could scrape carbon from the sky and store it in empty undersea reservoirs
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Smart Things and the Internet: Do We Have Any Rights, Privacy, and Regulations?
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Internet of Things: tech firms have become our digital landlords – but people are starting to fight back.
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The What, When, and the Why Not of Antibiotic Use
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The rise and fall of antibiotics. What would a post-antibiotic world look like?
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Perspectives on the Future: A Unique Vision in a World of Conformity
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Why the future might not be where you think it is
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What Leads Us to Panic Buy during Crisis?
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What drives people to panic buy during times of crisis: A new study sheds light on the psychology of consumers.
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How Music Heals Us
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How music heals us, even when it’s sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy
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How Our Brains Process Risk
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Our minds handle risk strangely – and that’s partly why we delayed climate action so long
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The expression about finding oneself between "a rock and a hard place" is one we've probably all identified with at some time in our life, and probably more so in the past few years.