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Buckminster Fuller’s Brilliant Metaphor for the Greatest Key to Transformation and Growth
“What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.”
“The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation—however minute,” Susan Sontag wrote in her diary. It’s a sentiment both paradoxical …
Read MoreScientists Find A Way To Combat Racial Bias Among Little Kids
First, they found that infants as young as 3 months old show racial bias. Now they’ve found a way to shake up those early preferences — and perhaps undermine more pernicious racial stereotypes as we grow up.
Research from the …
Read MoreHere’s Just How Bad Sitting Around Is For You
We all know that sitting is the new smoking — it raises the risk of disability, diabetes, heart disease and cancer, not to mention obesity. And research also shows that even if you hit the gym or the jogging path …
Read MoreThe Benefits Of Positive News Ripple Far Beyond The First Smile
For years, Michelle Gielan was a journalist at CBS News, dutifully telling the public about everything from natural disasters and the financial recession to shootings and soldiers’ funerals. But over time, the drumbeat of negative news got to her.
“I …
Read MoreCompliments That Aren’t About Physical Appearance
From Lori White
“Artist Caroline Caldwell is my new favorite human being.
She decided that people needed some ideas for how to compliment each other on things besides looks and physical appearance.
Why? Well … the whole looks-complimenting thing is …
Read MoreThese 2 cognitive biases may explain why girls fall behind in tech, engineering, and math
While women are well-represented in the science world, men still prevail in jobs related to technology, engineering, and math — at a ratio of roughly four to one.
This may be a matter of aptitude at the professional level, but …
Read More10 Awesome Things At 60 I Never Had At 30
A week ago I turned 60. And while the number sounds much older than I feel, I am also extremely aware of how great my life is at the same time. In fact, thinking back I am hyper-aware of how …
Read MoreThe Lifestyle Choices That Helped Me Learn To Accept Myself
I was raised in Baltimore, an only child in a single parent household. My father struggled with drug addiction and an ever-evolving arrest record, and was absent most of my youth.
My mother worked tirelessly to protect me from my …
Read More51-Year-Old Carried Her Daughter’s Baby – And It Helped Put Her MS In Remission
After struggling with fertility issues and losing a baby at 24 weeks, Mandy Stephens became a parent this summer with the help of a very special surrogate — her own mother.
Fifty-one-year-old Sherri Dickson volunteered to be her 32-year-old daughter’s …
Read MoreStudents Improving Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in the Developing World
With 750 million people lacking access to clean water and 2.5 billion without improved sanitation facilities, the global community must prioritize water, sanitation, and hygiene. Lee Blaney believes that students can play a fundamental role in these efforts and improve …
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