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Forget about resolutions. Instead: Envision! Intend! Act!

Thumbnail image for Forget about resolutions. Instead: Envision! Intend! Act! by Lauren Rosenfeld January 18, 2012

I’m not a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. It seems to me that besides being notoriously hard to keep — there’s a lot of negative judgment hidden within them. And I honestly don’t think you have to dig too deep to find the judgment. Usually that judgment is right there, just below the surface, [...]

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Most Vertebrates — Including Humans — Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense

Thumbnail image for Most Vertebrates — Including Humans — Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense by Moments Count December 4, 2011

From ScienceDaily People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to detect prey, communicate and orient themselves. A study in the Oct. 11 issue of Nature Communications that caps more than [...]

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Got the Rainy Day Blues?

Thumbnail image for Got the Rainy Day Blues? by Paula O Sullivan November 28, 2011

I was standing in a shop looking out the window at the rain, the other day, when a man commented that it was awful when it was raining, as you couldn’t go out anywhere. I was going to ask him if that was so, then how the heck did he get here, like was he [...]

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The Brain Collector

Thumbnail image for The Brain Collector by National Geographic November 3, 2011

Why do we forget so much of what happens to us every day? One neuroscientist at UC San Diego’s Brain Observatory is studying exactly how the mechanisms of the brain process memory. Please share this story!

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Pike’s Peak: Promises, Promises

Thumbnail image for Pike’s Peak: Promises, Promises by Catherine Ryan Hyde October 15, 2011

Here are a few photos from my hike up the Barr Trail to Barr Camp, which is 6.5 miles and 3,800 vertical feet, or a little better than half the way to Pike’s Peak summit. I just got back to the motor home about an hour ago. I’d had the night’s reservation for Barr Camp [...]

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Cynicism is a cinch

Thumbnail image for Cynicism is a cinch by Brooke Leigh Sheldon June 29, 2011

I have come to a realization. Cynicism is a cinch! Perhaps you know some people who are true masters of cynicism. Let me help you identify them. They are pretty easy to recognize. They may say things like: “It won’t work!” “You can’t do it.” “No. It’s impossible.” “You’ll never do be able to.” “We [...]

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The Shortcut

Thumbnail image for The Shortcut by Brooke Leigh Sheldon May 18, 2011

We all have to pull our thoughts together sometimes. We have to wander in our heads to find the correct road to the destination within us where our answers are awaiting. I have discovered a short cut. I can’t say my short cut will work for you. I don’t know the inner journeys you take [...]

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Messages From Beyond? 9/11 Families Say They’re Touched by Loved Ones Lost

Thumbnail image for Messages From Beyond? 9/11 Families Say They’re Touched by Loved Ones Lost by Moments Count April 20, 2011

by GEOFF MARTZ and LAUREN PUTRINO The first time Lisa O’Brien knew something bizarre was happening was when she found her 4-year-old daughter Jacie having a conversation in an empty room. “I’d say, ‘Jacie, who are you talking to?’ ‘My dad! Talking to daddy,’” O’Brien recalled. “She would tell me she could see him.” Jacie’s father [...]

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The science of empathy

Thumbnail image for The science of empathy by Moments Count March 30, 2011

By Professor Simon Baron-Cohen for The Guardian When I was seven years old, my father told me the Nazis had turned Jews into lampshades. Just one of those comments you hear once and the thought never goes away. To a child’s mind – even to an adult’s – these two types of thing just don’t [...]

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Quantum Pigeon: There’s No Place Like Home

Thumbnail image for Quantum Pigeon: There’s No Place Like Home by Christine Ranck March 30, 2011

In New York City, we tend to think (affectionately) of pigeons as kind of dirty, irritating birds—-but no one can deny that they can fly like the wind. Pigeons are sort of like NYC itself—stinky, infuriating, but still soaring. Mike Tyson has been in the news lately because he has raised hundreds of homing pigeons [...]

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