Impact of Lifestyle on Health
By Dariush D FARHUD: Lifestyle is a way used by people, groups and nations and is formed in specific geographical, economic, political, cultural and religious text. Lifestyle is referred to
Ignorance and Blame During the Recent Alien Invasion
by Tim Sommers: Does ignorance always excuse someone’s actions no matter how much harm they cause? If so, doesn’t that imply that the less I know about the problems of
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The Climate Crisis is a Cancer Crisis
You Can’t Have Healthy People On a Sick Planet Jane Fonda in Time Magazine: About a year ago, I was declared cancer-free after four months of chemotherapy at Providence St. John’s
Gen Z is Bringing Back the Part-time Job
Teen employment reached a 14-year high last year, as new opportunities and higher wages draw high schoolers to the workforce By Abha Bhattarai and Lauren Kaori Gurley: More of today’s Gen Z high-schoolers
Texting do’s and don’t’s for 2024
As old texting rules fall away, new ones bubble up to replace them… By Tatum Hunter: Lizzie Post once sent a text message checking in on a friend with a
Feeding the World in 21st Century: ‘Cities Like Forests’
A leading proponent of vertical farming discusses how urban areas (DesPardes Editor’s note: like Karachi, Lahore, Dhaka, Mumbai, etc.) should adapt to a perilous environmental future. Jon Michaud at The
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13 Ways To Start Training Your Subconscious Mind To Get What You Want
By Brianna Wiest: Your brain is built to reinforce and regulate your life. Your subconscious mind has something called a homeostatic impulse, which regulates functions like body temperature, heartbeat and breathing.
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Isn’t There More Than Enough Wealth to Go Around?
by Oliver Waters: In last month’s column I criticized the ‘degrowth’ movement, which essentially proposes that we should produce and consume less stuff. This notion has some merit of course
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The Invisible Personality Disorder
by Mike Bendzela: Given that it affects about 2.4% of the population, most of you probably know someone with this disorder. Some of you may even have it yourselves. Continually
Social Costs of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Healthcare Industry are Astounding
…and we’ve been ignoring them completely David Introcaso writes in The Hill: The social cost of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, considered the single most important measure in addressing the climate
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‘Clash of Empires’, ‘Clash of Civilizations’…and a Comment on ‘History’ Video
For Álvaro Enrigue, a novelist fascinated with historical detail, the first meeting of the Aztecs and Spanish conquistadors is the obsession of a lifetime. He brings it to life in
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Why Incentives to Attract Doctors to Rural Areas Haven’t Worked
Arjun Sharma in Undark: IN THE 1960s and 1970s, researchers offered financial incentives to patients to get them to lose weight, quit smoking, and abstain from alcohol. To some degree, it worked. But
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