Faster! Faster! In a world that seems to be at our backs, lashing us forward at an ever-faster pace, don’t you sometimes just want to say STOP!
In previous generations, people went to church to keep in touch with their friends, socialize, and yes, practice their faith. Now? For millenials, the generation between 18 and 30, many are now going to the Internet to find God, get religious, or move past religion to something more meaningful.
The smooth clean-cut look at the University of Maine is abandoned for a month every year when it observes “No Shave November”—and it’s not only for men sporting beards.
In third-world countries, keeping your money safe and using it to make more money has never been easy, especially when the vast distance between banks, bad roads, and slow postal service stand in the way of individuals starting their own businesses.
Whether you act like a girl or play like a boy may not correspond to the sex you happen to be. In a recent study, researchers disguised the gender of the babies in the test and allowed adults to observe them.
Older people love to reminisce and share old stories. That’s not news, but what is news is how telling old stories in a consistent setting can help people improve their memory and their health.
Daniel Suelo lives in a cave near Moab, Utah, in contented fashion without using money in any way, shape, or form. He’s existed without using money for almost 10 years and loves it.
Not everyone who is out of work is sweating it. Some are looking at those 50 weeks of unemployment checks they’ll be cashing and deciding to have as much fun as they can-for as long as they can. It’s called funemployment, and that’s exactly what it is.
In our tightwire world of trying to get on top of things and often just hoping to get by, it’s no wonder people are searching more franticly than ever for meaning in their lives. One example in the Inner Balance Wave points way back to Egyptology for a remedy.
Darfur is one of the most dangerous places on earth. It is so treacherous that women risk their lives simply by going out to look for firewood. Many are killed, abused or even raped as they search for scraps of wood to burn in their stoves. One teenager, thousands of miles away in Maryland, figured our a way to make them safer.