By the time you finish reading this short article, I hope you agree with me so much that you'll join me on my mission against "dieting" -- at least the way the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry has been pushing it on everyone for years.
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Tony Robbins says, "most people over-estimate what they can do in a year and under-estimate what they can do in a lifetime."
The only thing we can do in our lifetime—those of us who do want change—is to keep pushing for it.
If we scaled the entire Universe’s history from the Big Bang until now to be “one Universe year,” what would our future look like? “The way to love anything is to […]
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters found that air pollution, caused by fine particles capable of penetrating deep into the lungs, is responsible for 2.1 million deaths annually.
You need to take the skills you have retired and become extremely good at them.
Why are prisoners so religious?
It’s been a bad few weeks for RadioPhobia, the powerful fear of radiation that far exceeds the actual risk. From three different places come new examples of this version […]
Many Americans seem to hold on to a romanticized portrait of Columbus even when they are exposed to his dark side.
The link between periodontal disease and heart disease is so well documented at this point as to not need further discussion, but evidence is also accumulating, and has been for […]
Listening to enjoyable music activates reward centers deep inside the brain, specifically the subcortical nuclei which is known to be important in reward, motivation and emotion.
Even as the U.S. government continues to spend huge sums of money underwriting cancer research, public health agencies are failing to make people aware of a proven, well-tolerated, low-cost anti-cancer drug: aspirin.
The end of the world has been coming for quite some time. As Reza Aslan points out in Zealot, Jesus Christ was not the only End Times preacher with stock […]
Consider the story of the wealthy New York banker and the Greek fisherman. While vacationing in Greece, the banker meets a Greek fisherman and asks him how long it takes […]
As we take seats at that table we have different perspectives.
New data on age and well-being suggests, despite conflicting conclusions reached by past studies, that happiness does generally increase as we get older.
Over the past sixty years, the global birth rate has steadily declined with clockwork consistency.
Twice as many people means twice as much consumption. But it might mean three times as much innovation and we can see that throughout history.
While in Joshua Tree this weekend for another event, my friend and I swung by Shaktifest, the sister festival of the more popular Bhaktifest, which takes place every September. Both […]
In 2013, an American prisoner fought for an execution: “for” not “against”. The question is whether we should have allowed him to commit suicide and/or receive help in doing so. In […]
While there is a chance that many of the scientific innovations that have been forecast will come true, even within our lifetime, we still can’t count on them. We have […]
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Scientists have identified a set of stem cells capable of generating new neurons in the brain which regulate appetite, overturning the idea that one's desire for food was fixed by genetics for a lifetime.
After almost a century, cancer is still the No. 2 cause of death in the U.S. Why?
"We should consider ourselves fortunate if we find our work so satisfying and meaningful, and if we can make a contribution until the end," said Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan.
Many of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings seem almost eerily silent: The Milkmaid pouring cool milk into a jar, The Lacemaker deep in concentration, the Girl with a Pearl Earring […]
Technological innovations can further disrupt retailing by taking aim at the product itself, rather than the point of sale.
Modern cosmology, the understanding of our origin and evolution, can give us the understanding that we’re all in this together.
To wit, it is time to abolish the IRS.
Some of his biographers have claimed that Michael Faraday died of a broken heart because his idea of an invisible field of influence was rejected as idiocy by his scientific peers.
The world just lost a brilliant and fearless journalist. Michael Hastings did more in his short life than most people do in an entire lifetime. As information continues to come […]