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The Origins of Mother’s Day

Have you heard the story of the woman who inspired the creation of the celebration we now know as “Mother’s Day”? Ann Jarvis was...
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Los Desaparecidos: Mothers of the Disappeared

Argentina’s “Dirty War”, a campaign between the late 1970s and early ’80s, lasted eight years. The perpetrators’ goal was to rid the country of...
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The Surprising Power of Sabbath

Has your week been a stinker? Maybe your work has been filled with relentless deadlines or perhaps your education has been overfilling your brain...
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Welcome to the Sex Recession

Less sex? What? Surely not. Like many others I shared this news with, you might be surprised and slightly sceptical to hear this. How...
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HOW TO DEVELOP YOUR CREATIVITY EVERY DAY

To survive in a fast-changing world you need to be creative,” says Gerard J Puccio, chairman of the International Center for Studies in Creativity...
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should we leave marriage in the past?

It’s a moment I will never forget—the first time I was asked to perform a wedding ceremony for a couple deeply in love. I...
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Wake Up and Get Some Sleep

Why do we sleep? Truthfully, we do not know. From a survival perspective, sleep is largely counterproductive. It places us in a state that...
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CAN SCIENCE SAVE YOU FROM THE GRAVE?

Imagine a world where technology has advanced to the point that it can reverse or “cure” ageing, a world in which people have merged...
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EASTER: ALL THINGS NEW

Spring is a time of renewal and new beginnings and for many cultures around the world, it’s a time to celebrate. From the Christian...
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THE LORD’S SUPPER: REMEMBERING CHRIST’S DEATH

Humans have practised rituals for millennia. Ancient cultures on almost every continent performed various rain-making rituals, calling upon the gods to water their crops....
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Passive vaping—time we see it like secondhand smoke and stand up...

A medical student of mine recently said he loved the smell of vanilla in the house he shared with friends who vaped. “That’s OK,...
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Get Your Brain In Shape

Ever since I can remember, people have been motivated to exercise out of a desire to look good. We know being fit is associated...