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“Don’t gobblefunk around with words.”
― Roald Dahl, The BFG
Triple Ginger Cookies With Oatmeal and Chocolate Chips
When I was a child, I didn't even know what ginger was. Sure, I ate ginger snaps, but they were the tasteless, cardboard-like ginger cookies that could break your teeth unless you soaked them in your milk (I didn't know what soy milk was back then, either). But now,...
Yoga Teachers: Shut Up and Let Yoga Happen
I’m always amazed by how much yoga teachers talk during their yoga classes. Sometimes it feels like I’m attending a lecture on life, the universe, and everything. Not a class where the goal is to quiet down the mind (or the “mind-stuff” as it’s called in the Yoga...
Water, Water Every Where: The Fight for Free and Clean Water
Just as the spring rains have finally started to fall, the struggle for clean water is everywhere in the news. But unless we change our ways soon, there may not be a drop to drink ... at least one that's clean or free. Nestlé Seeks to Profit From Oregon Spring Water...
The Karma of Our Brains
Buddhism has embraced the concept of karma for thousands of years, but neuroscience is quickly catching up as it unravels the mechanisms that determine how our brains are shaped by our thoughts and actions. Central to the Buddhist form of karma is the understanding...
Pigeonhole Paradox Shows How the Future Can Affect the Present
As if entangled quantum particles — what Einstein called “spooky particles at a distance” — weren’t strange enough, researchers from Chapman University in Orange, California, have shown mathematically that any two particles in the universe could be linked together,...
High Cost of Hepatitis Drug May Delay End of Epidemic
A new medication for hepatitis C offers a simpler and more effective treatment, but the cost of the daily pill could put added strain on healthcare programs.