The brains of bullies—kids who start fights, tell lies, and break stuff with glee—may be wired to feel pleasure when watching others suffer pain, according to a new brain scanning study.
Interview by Carly Milne
Light Miller is a one-woman healing crew. Traveling extensively to teach people about the benefits of aromatherapy, Ayurveda, natural menopause, herbology, and tantra, Miller began in the natural medicine field as a naturopathic doctor until she embraced her Indian roots and followed her mother’s advice to go to school in India. It was there that she got her master’s and fell in love with medicine. Twenty-five years later she works with her husband and... Read more...
By Summer Bowen
Don’t have two dimes to rub together during this brutal economy?
Recessions certainly suck, but they can bring out the dark green in
Americans. Not the electric-sports-car-buying,
bamboo-flooring-throughout-the-solar-powered-McMansion type of green,
but the old school environmentalist: the resourceful conservationist. Here are four frugal ways to turn economic blues into some green.
High cost of food gnawing on your wallet? Try eating closer to home, lower on the... Read more...
Why make I.O.U.S.A.? You don’t make a movie about finance to pick up chicks.
We made the movie because we had read a book, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, by William Bonner and Addison Wiggin, [and] we really liked it. The same friend [who] told us we were crazy to make Wordplay, a documentary about crossword puzzles, thought we were even crazier when we told him about I.O.U.S.A.
In your film, George W. Bush confesses he got a “B” in Economics. What did... Read more...
It's ironic that our forefathers wrote separation of church and state into our Constitution, because the Mayflower Compact, the very first agreement among settlers arriving in 1620, mentioned religion once and God three times in a document shorter than this blog. Their quest, they wrote, was for "the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and the honour of our king and country." Their intention was that the covenants they signed regarding tolerance and liberty would... Read more...
In a puzzling twist, women who have a history of migraine headaches are far less likely to develop breast cancer than other women, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
After reading an op-ed piece by Canadian author Margaret Atwood in the NY Times two weeks ago, in which she excerpted her latest book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, I soon received a copy as a present. While there is so much amazing content inside to be discussed — her ability to gaze back at the world’s history and literature and find connections regarding the philosophical and moral implications of debt is startling — one idea in particular resonated deeply:
The... Read more...