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What You Don’t Know About People
You’ve been lied to. Or, at the very least, misled. It’s simply not true that everything you need to know about life you learned in Kindergarten. Because I remember Kindergarten. And as much as I loved Mrs. Peerless’s class, even after completing her rigorous academic curriculum, the 5-year-old me still thought of the other [...]
Unraveling malaria’s genetic mysteries
Simon Fraser University researchers in biology and computing sciences are starting to piece together a picture that may help scientists and doctors save more than a million lives annually. These lives — mostly children in developing countries like Africa — are claimed by two of 200 known species of malaria parasites carried by [...]
A Letter to the Lonely
Loneliness has been a constant companion in my life. I laugh when I read the news articles which try to say that people with Asperger’s “have no desire for human companionship.” I can’t speak for all — it may be true of some, but it has certainly not been true for me. It can feel [...]
Smart grocery store swaps – 11 Ways to Save Money on Healthy Food
You’ve heard the old excuse before: Healthy eating is expensive. I can confidently call my food choices healthy—at least most of the time—but I’m also a cheapskate at heart. Luckily, I manage to eat healthy on a budget, thanks to a few simple swaps—some of which save calories, too! Smart swap: Frozen berries Fresh [...]
Meditation Helps with wandering mind
We spend a lot of time thinking about what is NOT happening, contemplating events that occurred in the past or that might happen in the future. Indeed, this sort of “mind-wandering” is thought to be the default operating mode of our brains. Although being able to think about what isn’t going on around us [...]
Where is the Universe? The Answer Could Change Your Life
Few of us ever stop to ask one of the most basic questions about the Universe: Where is it? The answer can help us understand the structure of nature and rid the mind of useless things.To do so requires us to deviate from conventional thinking. Were taught since childhood that the universe can be [...]
Japan’s energy crisis: Nuclear winter
KYUSHU and Kansai, Japan’s two most nuclear-dependent regions, are bracing for a bitter winter. Citizens of both areas, many of them elderly, have been advised that they may have to turn down the heating because of shortages of nuclear power. It will be another hardship in an already trying year; after the March 11th [...]
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