An adoption has been approved for Larry and Kelly Peterson, a couple with spina bifida, who have lovingly adopted daughter, Hadley, with the same condition, so they could offer her the love, support, and understanding she needed.
Drawing from over 15 years of research, advocacy, and practical application, these five proven strategies can transform your children’s long-term physical and mental well-being. Making the added effort while they are still living in your house will pay untold dividends in their future lives.
Christmas itself is hard if not possible to escape from entirely. But there are things you can do to manage your experience if you plan to spend time by yourself over advent. You can decide what Christmas means to you, and how you want to spend it, and that is a gift.
In a world flush with hazardous air pollutants, there is one so widespread that nobody in the United States is safe from it. And perhaps most worrisome, it often poses the greatest risk in the one place people feel safest: inside their homes.
One last message from the Grandmothers comes as questions for you. What is your relationship to Mother Earth? She is speaking to us through melting polar ice caps, rising sea levels, stronger storms, wildfires, floods. When will we listen to her?
Since the brain and mental health are priorities in caring for ourselves and our loved ones, here are two of my favorite recipes for supporting brain health. They also happen to be delicious and worthy of making on the chilliest winter days.
The vast majority of people in the U.S. are concerned about the current state of polarization in the nation. These bridging groups show a way forward and offer strategies to help Americans build bridges across the country’s deepening political divide.
Starting in the fall of 2025, MIT students from families with incomes under $200,000 a year will not be charged tuition. Families making under $100,000 will not have to pay housing, dining or other fees, and they'll have an allowance for books and other personal expenses.
Cost and quality issues have long plagued the U.S. health care system. As research demonstrates, we have these problems because insurance companies are at the center of the system. If this system is so flawed, how did we get stuck with it in the first place?
Deep down, we all want to be of service, to see that smile on a loved one’s face, or to know we’ve gone out of our way for someone else. Yet, it can be easy to forget to pause, receive, and savor things for ourselves.
But while bidets are a mainstay in many European countries, most Americans are yet to catch up to this trend; still, there's progress on this, with many U.S. adults, particularly younger generations, showing a growing interest in this cleaning device.
After a year-long decoding effort with these white dots arranged in five clusters against a black background, a father-daughter duo won the race to decode an extraterrestrial message sent from Mars to test humanity.
Within each of our Earthly experiences, there are important lessons we’ve chosen to learn. Recognize the people, places and things you have attracted into your life all represent opportunities to learn the lessons that are most conducive to your evolutionary path.
“A huge thank you to board member Carol Bedrosian, whose daughter, Michella, has donated to and provided MMI with exhibit space at the Natural Living Expo free of charge for the past 17 years. This has contributed to our ability to fundraise annually, bringing in an additional $1,600 this year.
Reducing emissions is in our best interest, but despite widespread popular support for government action, implementing policies and programs continues to be difficult. Social science research shows that the more we hear about climate change, the less inclined we are to take action.
Scientists announced their discovery of the largest coral ever documented off the coast of the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Ocean and celebrated the fact that the massive underwater ecosystem appears to be unharmed by planetary heating—but said the discovery underscores the need to urgently protect marine environments.
Those who have the power to let things go are not at the mercy of their personal relationships. Those who have the power to let things go are able to eliminate distractions at work. Those who have the power to let things go are able to spend their days in relative ease.
As we enter into this holiday, let’s acknowledge the movement of decolonization and re-education happening in our country. We can observe and celebrate with our families in ways that honor those who the day originally dishonored, and those who continue to struggle under oppression.
Yoga may have originated in ancient India, but today is practiced all over the world. In the United States, it was philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau who first engaged with the philosophy of yoga in the 1830s. Yoga gained a wider American audience only in the late 1800s.
When I woke up Wednesday morning, I felt a strength emerging from within me. I felt an inner nod, a rolling up of my sleeves. “Yep, here we are. Now let’s get to work.” America is one body. There is no point in the liver fighting the spleen. It’s “go” time.
Your showerhead and toothbrush are teeming with viruses! But don’t panic – these tiny microbes are the natural enemies of dangerous pathogens and bacteria, and have enormous potential for the development of personalized antibiotics.
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