Studies show that exposure to pesticides — specifically those containing chlorpyrifos, which attack an insect’s nervous system — can harm a child’s physical and mental development. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey detected chlorpyrifos in 96 percent of the children sampled nationwide, with those aged 6 to 11 ...
Tibetan singing bowls have been an important tool used by Buddhists of Tibet in their meditative practices for centuries. These are musical instruments that produce sound through vibration when struck, scraped, or shaken. Tibetan singing bowls Oral traditions state that the singing bowls were brought to Tibet from India around the 8th century A.D. by a ...
Ever wanted to watch a long, relaxing nature video and forget about the worries of everyday life? Well, the BBC seems to have gotten the message and has recently uploaded a few 10-hour nature videos for the sake of your weary soul. Nature videos marathon The videos, seven in total, are listed on the BBC ...
In 2019, Jewish communities across the world will be celebrating the festival of Hanukkah between December 22 and 30. The festival commemorates an important event in Jewish history that occurred in 165 B.C. when the community took back their destroyed temple from the Seleucid Empire and rebuilt what is today known as the Second Temple. “During ...
Peter Tabichi is a teacher from Kenya who recently won a US$1 million Global Teacher Prize given by the Varkey Foundation. What makes him special is that Tabichi gives away almost 80 percent of his monthly salary to help poor kids. He was selected from almost 10,000 nominations and received the prize for being the ...
To many traditional Chinese families, having a son is critically important in order to carry on the family name, especially when there is a single son in the family. During the Qing Dynasty in Wuxi in Jiangxi Province, a family of farmers with the last name Chen had an only child named Ajian. To the ...
People define financial freedom as the state in which you are able to live the life you want without having to worry about money. This is basically the dream of every human being. Anyone with a good enough income can set their sights on this lifestyle and, with proper planning, expect to reach it. Here ...
Roxana Quispe Collantes, a student from Peru, has become the first person in the world to write a thesis in Quechua, the Incan language that is still spoken by several tribes in the Andes. She successfully defended her thesis in Quechua and received top marks from San Marcos University in Lima. The thesis Collantes’ study ...
The Breaking Bad movie El Camino‘s storyline focusing on drug production is more relevant than ever — with a new study revealing methamphetamine contamination in houses is a public health problem around the world. Dr. Jackie Wright, Associate Professor Stewart Walker, and Dr. Kirstin Ross analyzed the contamination levels in everyday household items from a ...
Ni Kuang’s science-fiction prophecy Chasing the Dragon, which was published in 1983, contains the following passage: “A big city, even the one that has an important position in the world economy, can suffer the same fate. You don’t need to destroy the buildings of this big city. You don’t need to kill any resident and even ...
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