Funerals Why Are Millennials and Gen Z So Obsessed With Death?VICEThe suit I’d be wearing, the deep red roses that will be decorating the church walls and pews. Songs throughout the service will include a mixture of classic choir-led hymns with a few of my favourite
Ancient History Feudalism in Medieval Japanancient.eu - Mark Cartwright Feudalism in medieval Japan (1185-1603 CE) describes the relationship between lords and vassals where land ownership and its use was exchanged for …
Amazon G-7 Leaders Near Deal To Help Amazon Nations Fight Rainforest Blazes, Macron SaysNPR - Scott NeumanLeaders who attended the G-7 summit are close to an agreement to provide technical and financial help to combat massive fires that have swept through the Amazon rainforest, according to French President
Cognitive Impairment Mild cognitive impairment: Meditation can boost brain healthMedical News Today - By Monica Beyer Research shows that adults with mild cognitive impairment who practice mindfulness meditation could experience a boost in cognitive …
Management Hate Networking Groups? Here Are 5 Ways to Make Them Work for YouInc Magazine - Amy GeorgeAs we bid good-bye to summer, it's time to go from kicking back a bit to kicking into higher gear again. I don't know about you, but I'm ready. And one thing I'm looking forward to is reconnecting with
Amazon Just How Bad Are the Amazon Fires?VICEThe fires in the Amazon raged on Friday, continuing the most destructive year for the rainforest in recent memory. The Amazon catches fire every year, but this year the blazes are as bad as they’ve been
Funerals How to Talk to a Grieving Person, According to a Funeral DirectorInverse - By Sarah Sloat "We need a new generation of funeral professionals." This week, we’re talking with Louise Winter, the funeral director and founder of Poetic Endings, …
Play buttonThe Chronicles of Narnia Hiking in the Fairy-Tale 'Narnia' Hills of the Czech RepublicOZY - Fiona Gaze Stepping out above the treeline to the eagle’s nest lookout behind Pravčická brána, the sweeping, 360-degree views include the soaring Elbe Sandstone …
First Native American Novelist Was a Killer Newspaper EditorOZY - Carly Stern Darkness had fallen, but the Ridge family wouldn’t find peace in slumber. John Rollin Ridge, then 12 years old, watched as his father was hauled out …
Play buttonCulture This American Maverick Ruled the Lesbian Literary Scene of ParisOZY - Molly Fosco The lush, green garden bustles with people on a warm Parisian evening. Guests drink champagne and snack on hors d’oeuvres, the hum of their chatter …
Hammocks Respect the Hammock, One of Humanity’s Greatest CreationsAtlas Obscura - Dan Nosowitz The hammock has become an intrinsic part of vacation iconography, a shorthand for the act of relaxation. It is a symbol, often a performative one, of …
UK News Prehistoric plants reproduce in UK for first time in 60m years becau…independent.co.uk - Phoebe Weston A prehistoric palm living on the Isle of Wight has produced male and female cones for the first time in 60 million years, botanists say. The exotic …
Indigenous Peoples 440 Years Old And Filled With Footprints, These Aren't Your Everyday MapsNPR - Wade GoodwynAt the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, 19 maps, nearly 440 years old, are on display — and they look spectacular. "Works on paper are delicate so we're only allowed to put them on display for months
Management Want to Feel Calm Fast? Do This for 6 Minutes a Day -- It Lowers Stress by 68 Percent, According to New ResearchInc Magazine - Melanie CurtinOver the past year or two, I've noticed something about my mood and ability to focus: when I scroll through social media, like Instagram, I find things that catch my interest. Some are funny, some are
Amazon Where is the Amazon rainforest, how long has it been around and what exotic animals call it home?thesun.co.uk - Samantha Lock THE Amazon rainforest, known as the "lungs of the planet", is the world’s largest tropical rainforest and is famed for its biodiversity and animal …
Forestry We will never save the rainforest until a living tree is worth more to Brazil than an incinerated oneThe Telegraph - By Johan EliaschThe G7 should not make room for the crisis in the Amazon, it should be clearing the agenda for nothing else. Without rainforest we wouldn’t even have economies to launch trade wars. The attention that
Portugal Hiking In Portugal: Portugal Hiking & Trekking Tours | National Geographic ExpeditionsNational Geographic• Explore the Douro wine region and the royal resort town of Sintra—both UNESCO World Heritage sites—and experience a performance of fado, part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. • along
Science Fractal Patterns Offer Clues to the Universe's OriginWIRED - Natalie Wolchover Pour milk in coffee, and the eddies and tendrils of white soon fade to brown. In half an hour, the drink cools to room temperature. Left for days, …
Telomere Study provides evidence that loving-kindness meditation slows cellular agingpsypost.org - Eric W. Dolan In new research published in Psychoneuroendocrinology, scientists have shown that loving-kindness meditation has a positive impact at the cellular …
Biological Species Physicists Finally Narrowed Down the Mass of the Tiniest 'Ghost Particle' in the Universespace.com - Rafi Letzter We're full of neutrinos all the time. They're everywhere, nearly undetectable, flitting through normal matter. We barely know anything about them — …
Mobile Technology Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text featureThe Verge - Nick StattSome of the world’s largest book publishers have jointly filed a lawsuit against Amazon-owned audiobook company Audible today over a new, controversial speech-to-text feature the literary industry claims
Emmanuel Macron Disruption takes over the G7Axios - Dave Lawler President Trump has generally been outnumbered at summits like the G7 — the disrupter-in-chief in a room of more sober-minded leaders. This time …
Leadership These are the negative effects of praise (that you’ve probably never thought about)Fast Company - Anisa Purbasari HortonThere are many problematic incentives that come with receiving (and giving) praise. After the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris nearly burned down in April, the French luxury-goods magnate François-Henri was
Magic Mushrooms Is Canada constitutionally required to legalize magic mushrooms?Quartz - Olivia GoldhillWhere cannabis first trod, magic mushrooms are sure to follow. A Canadian therapist has asked Health Canada to permit the use of psilocybin, the psychedelic ingredient in magic mushrooms, for medical If
Research Alcohol really is no excuse for bad behaviour – research reveals you're still the same person after a drinkThe Conversation UK - Kathryn Francis Many of us know that feeling of waking up, headache in tow, struggling to remember what we said and did after that extra drink the night before. And …
Books Address Unknown: the great, forgotten anti-Nazi book everyone must readThe Guardian - Jonathan FreedlandThe story traces the contours of fascism – the leader-worship, the surveillance, the summons to men to act as men Some of the largest themes have been addressed in the shortest books. That is especially
Quantum Mechanics The strange link between the human mind and quantum physicsBBC News - By Philip Ball"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles paradoxes
Innovation Water cremation and human composting: the new, eco-friendly frontier of dyingFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiWe are running out of space to bury people, and cremation has an enormous carbon footprint. So people are finding new ways to dispose of the bodies of their loved ones. Matt Baskerville has served as licensed
Noam Chomsky A new book spells out the magic of languageThe Economist IN “AVENGERS: ENDGAME”, a superhero blockbuster, the baddy’s Infinity Gauntlet gives him the power to snuff out the universe with the snap of a …
