Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, bringing the ancient disease closer than ever to eradication. Guinea worm is slated to be the first parasitic disease eradicated in history, and the first without a medicine or vaccine, strictly through behavior change and health education.
By creating spaces designed to meet your needs, you'll be much more likely to enjoy your time outside. Let your imagination be your guide, and get ready to enjoy your backyard paradise!
A community healthcare worker, the American Public Health Association says, is a “trusted member” of a local community or someone who has “an unusually close understanding” of it, enabling the worker to serve as intermediary between patients and the healthcare system.
June 1: Mental Mercury enters Cancer the first thing this morning. Minds take on an intuitive, emotionally sensitive outlook. Empathy is encouraged by Mercury’s pending square to Neptune. Some folks are teary, others protective. Raw feelings and instincts provide guidance,…
By embracing the possibility of the library angel, we open ourselves to a world of serendipity and inspiration, where the answers we seek may already be waiting for us to discover them.
The Sun Salutation consists of 12 postures moving in and out of each other with synchronized breath, flowing together as one movement, much like a dance or a meditation in motion.
The great paradox of the AI age may be this: capitalism, by pushing automation as far as possible, could end up creating the need for the very forms of socialism and collective support it spent generations fighting against.
Marine scientists have discovered a record number of new species living in the depths of the world's oceans over the past year. A total of 1,121 new marine species were discovered in a single year.
Motion sickness is typically triggered by slow, up-and-down and left-to-right movements. The more pronounced the motion, the more likely we are to get sick. But why doesn’t it affect everyone?
In this 6 part series, you will enter a space where you can be honest about your thoughts, vulnerable about your fears, and express what your Inner Divine has to say.
The rise of solar power may result in short-term increases in electricity prices due to grid upgrades and energy storage costs. But in the long run, solar offers significant savings by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and lowering carbon emissions.
Hantaviruses do not begin in hospitals or airports. They circulate in animal reservoirs whose ranges are shaped by climate, land use and human encroachment.
Crystal healing is not a passive practice. It does not ask you simply to own stones and hope their qualities seep into your life by proximity. Crystal healing is a spiritual and contemplative practice that asks you to bring intention, consistency, and honesty to the relationship.
In announcing New York City’s executive budget for the 2027 fiscal year on Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was applauded for closing a $12 billion budget deficit without austerity measures, proving that when city governments “stand with working families, not billionaires, there is nothing they cannot accomplish."
A twelve-year-old today has a different life. The library card has been replaced by a piece of glass that knows them better than their grandmother does, that follows them to bed and wakes up before they do, and that has been engineered, with the same techniques I learned decades ago in advertising and broadcasting, to keep their eyes on it for as many hours as possible.
Your gut microbiome, the trillions of bacteria lining your digestive tract, doesn't just help you digest food. It plays a role in metabolic regulation, immune development, and processes ranging from inflammation to blood sugar control.
Nothing external had necessarily changed immediately. Yet internally, everything had changed, because the individual had stopped collapsing inward energetically. They had begun reclaiming spaciousness — and spaciousness changes everything.
While we celebrate the modern version of Mother’s Day on May 10, in this momentous year of 2026, it’s worth remembering Mother's Day was not designed to encourage people to be nice to their mothers; it was part of women’s effort to gain power to change society.
A small Wisconsin city has just notched a big win in its fight against a proposed data center, thanks to grassroots community organizing and support from a growing statewide coalition.
In these remote Indigenous communities, non-interference wasn’t a passive thing, a reluctance to get involved, the way we sometimes use the word. It was a deeply held, actively practiced value grounded in a fundamental respect for every person’s right to walk their own path and make their own choices.
New study finds switching from conventional personal care products to nontoxic alternatives can rapidly reduce exposure to harmful chemicals. Even only a few days can lower body levels of substances linked to hormone disruption, cancer, developmental problems, and reproductive toxicity.
People are walking around with one of the most powerful healing systems ever documented locked inside them, yet they can most readily access it only when someone in a position of authority gives them permission.
Most conversations about processed food focus on what's been added. And those are legitimate concerns. But my chip experiment reveals something more fundamental: the physical transformation of whole food into a processed format is itself sufficient to create compulsive overconsumption.
I have used Reiki techniques extensively on the crops, both while they are in the fields and on seedlings in the greenhouse. While not a controlled experiment, I noticed increased yields, even during drought conditions.
For those who want to help our pollinators but don’t have room for a garden, this plant would be beneficial to plant where a wetlands area needs restoring or along the banks of ponds, streams or rivers in a park.
In the world of shadow work, “peace” often comes at a steep internal cost. When we habitually avoid disagreement to stay safe, we aren't just avoiding an argument; we are often suppressing a vital part of our own identity.
A chance discovery at a cemetery in Ithaca, New York has led scientists to uncover one of the largest known aggregations of ground-nesting bees ever recorded, with an estimated 5.5 million individuals of the species Andrena regularis living beneath the soil.
When you bow to another, are you really bowing to them with all your being, or are you just going through the motions? If you are committed to living the word, then it’s okay to say it. In fact, if you understand and really mean it, then it’s good to say namaste.
May 1: Questions about money, power, caring and sharing resonate deeply under this afternoon’s commanding full Moon in Scorpio. Overstepping leaders and bosses as well as demanding partners could be on the defensive while Pluto tests the opposing Sun and…
Many consumers who reverted to plastic bags during Covid have been slow to switch back to alternatives. Individuals can play an important role. We can promote the use of reusable bags and encourage friends and family to make the switch.
As I sit on the cusp of letting go of old patterns (and fading hair color), what emerges is a confidence and knowing that my decision is truly mine. No outside influence, no second guessing myself and no longer afraid to shine.
We often misunderstand or are confused by the tragedies of life because they make no sense to us. If we understand that we are unconditional love, we will look at situations differently, and accept that the only person we can control is ourselves.
How many deaths could be prevented if people moved just five to 10 more minutes per day or sat 30 to 60 minutes less? This isn't about marathon training. It's about realistic, bite-sized changes that fit into your current routine.
Mexico’s 120 million citizens will begin to enjoy free, universal access to healthcare from next year, following a decree by socialist president Claudia Sheinbaum. The landmark policy will unify a fragmented and unequal system that has left many unable to receive care.
Women working in same-gender groups face a “collaboration penalty” that solo women escape. Research finds that this pattern holds across venture capital, professional sports, health care and entertainment.
When we stop moving, bones interpret it as a signal that they’re no longer needed and begin to fade away. When we challenge them, they thicken, harden, and renew themselves. Even in old age, this feedback loop can be reawakened.
When you take the spirits into account, things just start to go better — crops are healthier, animals thrive, you have fewer problems with pests, weather may be more favorable, and you may even suffer fewer accidents and breakdowns.
Exposure to plants improves mood, reduces stress perception and increases the sense of comfort in indoor environments. In other words, the presence of greenery makes spaces feel more alive and less artificial, which influences how people think and feel.
Chemicals may get into tampons and other menstrual products in a number of ways; we found lead present in all 30 tampons we tested.
Over Easter weekend, a vast livestream audience tuned in to celebrate something spectacular unfolding 145 feet up a pine tree in southern California’s San Bernardino national forest – the hatchings of two bald eagle chicks.
In the 21st century, I imagine angels will by and large be what they have always been, but it is we who will be different. To see ourselves as angels see us, as fellow creative beings and potential partners, is a liberating gift and a challenge to our own self-images.
The research consistently points toward exactly what every tribal culture already knew: that meaning and belonging are not separate things, that you can’t have one without the other, and that neither of them can be delivered through a screen or legislated into existence.
Spiritual practices don’t automatically generate a sense of wonder and harmony every time you use them. However, from what I’ve seen, even a short time spent in a state of awe and awareness using a spiritual practice can change your life in ways you might not have considered.
Only two states require climate education in science curriculums, so, your child is no slacker if the education being taught is "slacking"!
For most kids, you can’t beat a trip to the zoo. Now animals are streaming into 400 children’s hospitals from San Diego Zoo’s dedicated 24-hour channel for those unfortunate kids whose immune systems are too weak to endure such an excursion; instead, they have the chance to experience it from their hospital beds.
He very much surprised me by saying, yes, there was one best piece of advice, one most important thing across all the varieties of human pathology and suffering and achievement and relationship. So naturally, I asked what it was.
Seemingly harmless habits can have unintended consequences. When something as simple as a pillow starts affecting the body in ways most people never consider, it’s worth paying attention — especially for older adults who are keeping an “eye” on their health.
There are many ways to help migrating birds, or any bird, stay safe while in flight. The following are things for both residential and commercial buildings. Some are very easy and inexpensive, but the lives saved are priceless.
An ‘extraordinary event’ for mountain gorillas has been reported as conservationists celebrate a second twin birth just two months after another set was discovered in Virunga National Park. Barely 250 mountain gorillas were left in the 1970s, and many thought the animals faced extinction.
Breath is simply waiting for you to be aware of it, to use it and harness its powers to shift your reactions, your thoughts, your emotional charges, and your trauma. Breath can be used to regulate hormones, shift nervous system responses, clear trauma, and stop repetitive, totally unhelpful thought cycles.
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