They weren't nuns. They weren't wives. They built their own communities where women could own property, earn money, and leave whenever they wanted —in medieval Europe, when women had almost no rights at all.
In some studies, half of patients stopped taking GLP-1s within a year despite the benefits, citing the expense and side effects.
Record numbers of sightings of one of the world’s most intelligent invertebrates over the summer have led the Wildlife Trusts to declare 2025 “the year of the octopus” in its annual review of Britain’s seas.
Suction is the heart of cupping therapy, and is what promotes healing. Published research suggests cupping therapy can be used to treat conditions such as muscle pain, knee osteoarthritis, lower back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome.
Cold weather makes joint pain feel sharper and stiffness last longer, but that doesn't mean you're powerless against it. Self-care and proactive management can reduce arthritis flare-ups year-round.
How can you increase your willpower and fulfill your New Year’s promise to yourself? These seven strategies are based on behavioral science with hundreds of people trying to achieve their long-term goals.
If you’re someone who wakes in the night and worries that something is wrong, consider the possibility that nothing is wrong at all. It may be that your body remembers something ancient.
After a 137-year struggle, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has finally received full federal recognition from the U.S. government. Members of the Native American tribe shed tears as it reached the historic milestone.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
January 1: Happy New Year!!! We begin 2026 under a waxing, talkative and effervescent Gemini Moon. Mercury’s early morning square to Neptune is the first aspect of this new year. Partygoers may find it hard to shake off last night’s…
Proton pump inhibitors, or PPIs, are marketed as safe, convenient fixes for reflux and indigestion. But these drugs were designed for short-term use, not as daily maintenance.
For years, I believed tarot was about prediction — glimpses into what might happen next. Over time, I realized the cards were doing something far more powerful: reflecting the conversation already happening beneath the surface.
Christmas is supposed to be restful, yet somehow it ends up being one of the worst times of year for sleep. Here are a dozen sneaky ways Christmas sabotages your sleep and what you can do about it.
North America's 'largest wildlife overpass' is finally complete, thanks to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The six-lane highway is a crucial crossing point for countless elk, pronghorn, mule deer, mountain lions, and black bears, and is expected to reduce wildlife-vehicle crashes by 90%.
When we’re stuck, the instinct is often to push harder or search for what’s wrong with us. But what if stuck-ness isn’t a personal failure or something to be fixed? Explore the five elements as a compassionate pathway to release stuck-ness and reconnect with natural awareness.
While you enjoy this winter's cache of fresh snowfall, try this non-toxic de-icer for your steps and porch you can make yourself. It works within minutes, and only needs 3 ingredients you probably already have at home.
As winter begins, the stars hint at the dawn of a new era for humankind. We are privileged to witness rare and previously unknown astrological events.
One of the most powerful interventions in psychology takes only a few minutes. It requires no special training. And it sounds, frankly, almost embarrassingly simple.
The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation's top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis.
Your body is not your enemy in midlife or older age. It’s trying to tell you something. It wants longer evenings without food. It wants a break from constant digestion. It wants the chance to clean up yesterday’s cellular mess before today’s begins. When you give it that space, everything becomes easier.
When I am at peace, I usually feel patient; when I am both peaceful and patient, I am more inclined to be kind. We sometimes forget that these qualities are within us all.
The new standard goes beyond body mass index (BMI) to include waist and hip measurements that reveal hidden fat conventional BMI misses. By doing so, it captures millions of Americans whose weight appears “normal” but whose fat distribution signals a higher risk for metabolic disease.
Between Halloween candy, Thanksgiving pies and holiday cookies, the end of the year is often packed with opportunities to consume sugar. What happens in your mouth during those first minutes and hours after eating those sweets?
Fed up of waiting for the city to tackle traffic fatalities, Angelenos are taking street safety into their own hands — one bucket of paint at a time — as people are painting crosswalks across L.A. to protect pedestrians.
Like intuition and connections to other states and levels of consciousness, connection with your dreaming life is not a unique power or ability that one simply has or does not have; rather it is a relationship that can be cultivated.
Make concerted efforts to identify seniors who live alone and are seriously ill early and provide them with expanded support. Stay in touch with them regularly through calls, video, or text messages.
It’s 42% of Colombia’s territory. It’s 7% of the total Amazon rainforest. And it’s now free from future oil and mineral extraction as Colombia bans all new oil and mining projects in its Amazon — an area the size of Sweden.
Rogan recently cited data from a 2024 study that shows Earth’s temperature over the last 485 million years. Temperatures have varied, and yes, our current time period is the coolest it's been in a long time.
It is only after scientists made key advances in imaging technology and acoustic physics in recent years that the promise of ultrasound is being realized in the clinic. Hundreds of clinical trials aimed at treating dozens of conditions have been completed or are ongoing.
According to researchers, even a few minutes of chewing gum exposes you to hundreds — sometimes thousands — of microplastics. These particles include the same plastics used to make grocery bags, plastic bottles and even car tires.
December 1: Thanks to the waxing Aries Moon’s trine with Mars the day and month set off at blazing speeds. The Sun and Venus join Mars in cheerful Sagittarius. With a strong planetary emphasis in fire signs there is plenty…
Every relationship is different, but the invitation is the same. Let intimacy be a place where both people can be fully human, tender, uncertain, playful and honest, and where slow and kind attention matters more than any idea of perfection.
What confuses doctors is Candida is considered a normal part of our flora. It is a commensal, meaning that it lives within our bodies without causing harm. But Candida can become our enemy if the micro-biome’s diversity is harmed or disrupted.
We can consciously create a new vibrational frequency for the body to resonate with, rather than defaulting to old patterns. By emotionally feeling into a new, positive future for oneself, we can teach the body to align with the mind’s eye to feel the energy of the new emotion.
These rare whales had never been seen alive. Then a team in Mexico sighted two, proving to the scientists onboard that they were seeing a species that had never before been seen in the wild: a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.
Here’s three super simple ideas to have fun and save a little money while giving thoughtful, useful herbal gifts this season.
Imagine this: you’ve woken up one morning, years into recovery, and realized your inner critic has gone quiet. Not vanished; it’s just quieter. It’s still there, but softer, its voice less convincing. In its place, a calmer tone — patient, maybe even playful.
In our everyday lives we are all assessors. We assess everything that happens to us and assign some sort of meaning to it. This meaning, however, cannot be not derived from the circumstance or event itself, but rather from our unconscious, personal and subjective assessment of it.
For a company that makes half the world’s zippers, new ideas have big impacts. YKK's innovative new tapeless zipper saves tons of fabric scraps while creating a better fit on your clothes.
The ease at which we avoid hard emotions is not solely a factor of our dependence on rapid-fire digital stimulation. There’s more to it, and it speaks to all the messages that have made their way into our collective consciousness about feeling, or rather not feeling.
For decades, the standard approach to treating constipation involved high-fiber diets or over-the-counter laxatives. Yet, one recent study found that eating a small, nutrient-dense fruit — kiwifruit — offers surprising benefits in easing this common bowel issue.
Affirm the visions and values you want for your future, and understand you have the power to project thought, and reality responds with manifestation. Make all of your positive feelings as big as you can, then share them with like-minded others in person to amplify those feelings within yourself and the world around you.
By simply noticing and speaking up about unwanted and unacceptable workplace behaviour, even if it’s happening to someone else, you can help to change it. By having a zero tolerance attitude to bullying, you can help shatter the destructive silence that often grows in toxic workplaces.
Rather than simply surviving winter, we can approach it as a season to learn, adapt and deepen resilience. Making time your ally, seeking wonder outdoors, cultivating joy and practicing meditation and mindfulness are all ways to engage meaningfully with the season.
At the WSJ Innovator Awards where Billie Eilish was honored with the Music Innovator Award, during her acceptance speech she called on the world's wealthiest people in attendance to donate part of their fortune to those in need, like her recent $11.5 million donation towards climate justice and environmental work.
Deep in your history, your ancestors — your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, as far back as you can imagine and then some — had a dream, an image, a vision of what they hoped for the lives of their descendants. You are that dream.
Plant the seeds for your 2026 transformational getaway with this guide to 29 healing retreats from near and far.
Perfectionism tells us that we are worthy only when everything is in order. It creates constant pressure to prove and perform. And when we inevitably fall short because we’re human, it triggers shame, guilt, or self-criticism.
If you're trying to use hot baths as a natural therapy to boost your circulation, lower inflammation, or support immune function, you're on the right track — but only if you're smart about how you do it.
When students are taught about shame, the goal is to help future physicians recognize the emotion in themselves and others, so they don’t perpetuate the cycle. Shame remains “a crack in your armor you don’t want to show. Heaven forbid you act like you’re not capable or show fear.
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