The simple act of hugging may not only increase your bond with others but may also boost your physical and emotional health. The late Virginia Satir stated, "We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."
Despite the company’s public downplaying of the success and popularity of reusable glass bottles, Coca-Cola operates a thriving refillable glass bottle program in just this one US city, according to The Story of Stuff Project, which could be a key to tackling plastic pollution globally.
For more than a decade, About Fresh, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing access to fresh foods in underserved communities, has been working with All In, a mobile food truck that is now bringing affordable, fresh produce to families all over Boston. Wicked smart.
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.
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?
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?
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
Technology expert Dino Ambrosi has made a startling revelation that perfectly underlines the big question of the smartphone era, and shares this one message that can get teens to rethink their screentime.
During his first diplomatic visit to a tribal nation as president on Friday, Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize for the country’s role in the Indian boarding school system, which devastated the lives of generations of Indigenous children and their ancestors.
More than 4,500 square miles of ocean will soon be protected by the federal government off the Central California coast. The Biden administration is creating a new national marine sanctuary, which will be the third largest in the U.S. The sanctuary is also the first to be led by Indigenous people.
After the Lakeside Center at McCormick Place, the largest convention center in North America, caused 1,000 bird deaths in a single night, a Chicago real estate company shelled out $1.2 million for sophisticated decals that will deter birds from crashing into its glass windows.
I am grateful that the ancestors have shown me the unpopular truth: Unleashing their tears and reviving their memory might just be the messy, raw, healing balm for the wounds our people sustained and perpetrated so long ago. If we muster the courage to traverse these shadows, who might we become on the other side of all that pain?
A 3-day strike by tens of thousands of dockworkers on the East and Gulf coasts, that could have seriously hurt the U.S. economy had it continued, has been called off following a tentative agreement on wages between the International Longshoremen's Association and the United States Maritime Alliance.
After 7 years of the Fluoride Action Network pursuing legal action against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the United States District Court of the Northern District of California has now deemed fluoridation an “unreasonable risk” to the health of children, and the EPA will be forced to regulate it as such.
For the first time in decades, national surveys compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show an unprecedented and unexplained decline of as many as 20,000 drug deaths per year nationwide, a huge reversal from recent years when fatal overdoses regularly increased by double-digit percentages.
A young woman’s attempted suicide on a bridge in Nashville was interrupted at the last minute by an unlikely hero. She was halfway there, then “Livin’ on a Prayer” singer Jon Bon Jovi appeared at her side and managed to talk her out of the life-ending decision.
Nearly 5,500 Oregonians have been moved out of homelessness and into housing thanks to persistence from a recently-appointed task force. This amounts to a 28% increase from the previous year, and the number of housing placements is the most seen in a fiscal year since the task force’s inception.
Anytime we communicate, we are never going to be successful at giving people a pure experience of objective reality — the territory. No matter how well I describe my river to you, my map of the territory will never match your map of the territory.
Buddhist nation Nepal and a drone manufacturer in majority Buddhist China, have signed an agreement to supply Mount Everest’s Buddhist authorities with heavy lift drones that will help clear trash off Everest’s holy slopes.
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