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Yes, you can create your own reality
Research shows that our thoughts are packets of energy. Einstein calculated that all energy can be transformed in mass, in matter. So our thoughts can become matter. And thus we can create our own reality. Despite the scientific logic, the concept may be hard to accept or even to test. But here’s Read More...
How do you learn to visualize?
Think of something you would like. For this exercise choose something simple, something you can easily imagine receiving. It can be something you want to have, an experience you would like, a situation you’d like to find yourself in, or a circumstance in your life you’d like to improve. Get Read More...
The power of positive thinking
The power of positive thinking is a ubiquitous notion in the American mind, but that was not always so. While its antecedents date back to Hermeticism, an ancient Greco-Egyptian philosophy for achieving esoteric powers, in today’s parlance “The Secret” had to be rediscovered after centuries Read More...
Rainforests are best protected by local communities
All the bad things that have ever happened to a forest—wildfires, slashing and burning, deforestation, etc. have come from humans. Yet a new study—Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change—from the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the Resources and Rights Initiative (RRI) learned that the Read More...
Cable-less fiber optic design creates connections out of thin air
Radio waves work without cables. So do cell phones and wifi. However we still need wires to transmit light or electricity. That may change. The first experiments with wireless power transmission are being done and now researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a fiber optic laser that Read More...
Protecting your eyes from the negative effects of staring at your screen
Most of us spend a lot of time every day in front of one screen or another. But the blue light emitted by your device’s screen can actually do damage to your eyes. Thankfully there are precautionary measures you can take to limit, if not prevent, any lasting damage to your sight caused by device Read More...
Monks start brewing beer to support aging elders
Monks have been brewing beer for centuries, and a monastery in central Massachusetts is the not just the newest to take on this centuries old practice, but the only monastery outside of Europe that brews certified Trappist Ale. The clergy at St. Joseph's Abbey is growing old, the average age is 70, Read More...
In Paris you can order a romantic picnic anywhere anytime
The weather is nice outside and at the last minute you decide you want to have a picnic after work. This would usually mean a race to the store for snacks and drinks, costing valuable minutes of sunlight, or going hungry and thirsty and enjoying the time you have outside. Paris Picnic is a service Read More...
It’s never too late: lessons from heart disease 20 years on
Most clinical trials follow their patients for a matter of months, usually at best a few years. But what happens when we revisit these patients decades later? How do we adapt to our illnesses, and how much control do we really have over them? A new study by researchers at Northwestern Medical Read More...
Tech entrepreneurs pioneer urban farming
Farming is not exactly seen as a frontier of innovation. As more and more people around the world move away from the rural areas to live in cities, it’s mainly older people who stay behind at the farms. That’s a worrisome development as a growing world population needs more food every day. But Read More...