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Riding with Arjuna: 5 lessons in self-confidence from India’s most revered text
Hindus in India have been inspired for ages by the story of the warrior Arjuna and his divine charioteer, Krishna. It’s an epic story about overcoming life’s challenges. The dialogue between Krishna and Arjuna points the way to liberation from suffering. Here are 5 lessons in self-confidence Read More...
Harvard just launched a center for happiness
As two enormous, golden doors part, sunlight pours into an atrium filled with babies and puppies. Everyone is smiling. The air smells of freshly mown mint. Ripe avocados rain from the sky. (Somehow, they always miss the babies.) This is Harvard University’s new Center for Health and Happiness. At Read More...
Reinventing capitalism with this new book on a clean money revolution
These times call for courageous new thinking. Money is perhaps our biggest blind spot. We look at it very myopically. We ignore noticing what it is doing on behalf of us. We let it do things we would never see ourselves doing. We must find new eyes to examine our personal connections to atrocity, Read More...
Engaging in these 8 mindfulness practices decreased HIV patients’ viral loads
Mindfulness meditation has been practiced in East Asia for thousands of years. In the 1960s and 70s, interest in it brought this Zen staple to the US and Europe. It was common within the counterculture movement and continued over the decades among “crunchy granola” and “New Read More...
This advance brings us a lot closer to a "hydrogen economy"
Hydrogen is currently used to upgrade crude oil and synthesize ammonia, a critical building block of the fertilizers applied in modern agriculture. It also could be valuable as a feedstock for generating green electricity and as an ingredient in environmentally friendly fuel cells to power cars and Read More...
London to spend £18m on preparing the city for new electric black cabs
Transport for London is spending £18m on upgrading the capital’s power grids to charge the first generation of battery-powered black cabs. From 1 January 2018, all new black cabs will have to be battery-powered electric models by law as part of TfL’s effort to reduce toxic Read More...
Bitcoin spikes to an all-time high
Bitcoin is trading at a record high. The cryptocurrency is up 2.9% at $1,330 a coin as of 10:17 a.m. ET. 2017 has been a volatile year for bitcoin. It rallied more than 20% in the opening week before crashing 35% on word that China was going to begin to crack down on trading. The Read More...
New cycling system helps Dutch riders beat red lights
The Dutch love their biking culture so much that they’re pioneering a new system that will help riders beat red lights. The system, called Flo, uses speed cameras placed 100 meters before each set of traffic lights to calculate whether or not the cyclist should change speed to hit the green Read More...
Plastic-eating worms could be the solution to pollution
A type of caterpillar that can munch up plastic bags has just been identified, fuelling excited speculation that this could one day help to eliminate global pollution from plastic waste. After a Spanish researcher had mistakenly left wax worms in a plastic bag one day, she found that the critters Read More...
Study: Orange essential oil may reduce symptoms of PTSD
Those who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have limited options when it comes to treatment. A new study suggests that orange essential oil may offer a non-pharmaceutical option to help reduce the stress and fear associated with the disorder. Previous studies have shown that orange Read More...