Negative news is bad news for mental health.

Positive news is good for your health. It’s undeniable: “Studies have linked the consumption of bad news to increased distress, anxiety and depression, even when the news in question is relatively mundane. According to Graham Davey, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Sussex, exposure to bad news can make personal worries seem worse […]

Life After Hate Frank Meeink

This is a story about Life After Hate and people who help others stop hateful conduct. The non-profit organization rehabilitates violent right-wing extremists, providing support to individuals with very high-risk behaviors. Life After Hate’s founders overcame abuse, abandoned crime, survived incarceration, and stopped hating. Then they started helping others, becoming activists for peace and justice. […]

Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin’s credentials paint the picture of an amazing individual, first misunderstood before her profound insights were fully appreciated. How has society benefited from this woman’s unique perspectives and impact? Through her innovative designs for humane livestock handling equipment combined with her substantial work as an autism advocate.  Born in 1947 in Boston, Massachusetts, Grandin […]

Meditation and well-being

Mental and physical benefits On the whole, “meditation” is nothing more than an overall expression for various methods of reaching a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. Technically, though, “meditation is a practice that involves focusing or clearing your mind using a combination of mental and physical techniques,” according to one definition among […]

ATS Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems Earthshot Prize

No less than a “revolutionary solution to capture and convert industrial waste heat into sustainable electricity”: that’s what Advanced Thermovoltaic Systems (ATS) has developed. For its efforts, the company has received the prestigious Earthshot Prize 2024, which recognizes innovators addressing the world’s most pressing challenges in five areas: protecting and restoring nature; cleaning our air; […]

Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy

Many people’s accomplishments have been overlooked in history, but none more than the achievements of women. Here are a few examples of female pioneers who beat the odds, succeeding in their fields against all expectations despite the gender bias they suffered in their day.  Alessandra Giliani (1307-1326) Alessandra Giliani was an Italian anatomist in the […]

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

Steve Jobs

connections

This enterprise provides solutions to refugees and individuals forced to leave their homes due to conflict, violence, or other crises. Through language, NaTakallam is breaking barriers, building connections, and creating lasting change. Here’s how.   © The Good Times

Clove natural antibiotic

Antibiotics can be lifesaving. One of the most significant discoveries in the history of medicine, they successfully fought waves of cholera, smallpox, plague, typhoid fever, malaria, leprosy, and syphilis. They are medications that act against bacterial infections, like Legionnaires’ disease (a type of lung infection), Lyme disease, meningitis, strep throat, tuberculosis, whooping cough, bloodstream infections, […]

optimist optimism

Be An Optimist by Wayne Visser Be an optimist Not because the future is bright But because bright people are working To make the future better Be an optimist Not because the news is good But because good people are showing That change is always possible Be an optimist Not because the world is fair […]