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Hearing about anyone’s suicide is always incredibly disturbing and sad. And usually the first place we go is: Why? And when it’s someone in the public eye, like the acting chief financial officer of Freddie Mac who was found dead this morning, apparently of suicide, we start constructing a story. Like, “Well, he was made…

Last night on “The Biggest Loser,” the phrase “Are you kidding me?!” was uttered no fewer than 5 times–3 of those by Kristin, who after breaking the record for most weight lost by a woman on campus, was ultimately voted off. I like Kristin very much, but I would like to take this opportunity to…

I just came across a lovely book called “Silver Linings: Meditations on Finding Joy and Beauty in Unexpected Places,” in which author Mina Parker shares a lovely way to bring mindfulness back into your day.  She writes: “I was at a kid’s soccer game a while ago, and when the team started to make a…

Anyone who has a best friend knows that we just feel better, in ways both tangible and intangible, when we’re around people who we love and who love us.  Well, it turns out that  researchers are starting to think that the “feel better” that we experience when we’re hanging with friends is a genuine health…

A friend sent me these adorable images from zoos around the world from Boston.com. A couple of them are sad–not all zoos are happy zoos–but mostly this is a bath of brain-boosting cuteness. My fave is at left. Can I be a baby gorilla napping on its mom’s back in the sun? And who knew?…

I really got some Earth Day inspiration from this video on “eco-equity,” a call to transform the “pollution-based economy” of the last century into a “sustainable, green, and clean” economy that creates jobs–particularly in urban areas where low-income people want to work, they want to breathe, and they don’t want to have to trade in…

As a meditation, when the Dalai Lama first meets someone, he thinks this: “This person like me, wants to be free of suffering; this person like me, wants to be happy.”

In honor of the “high holiday” of April 20th–National Pot Smoking Day–here’s a clip from Saturday Night Live a few months ago when Michael Phelps was snapped with a bong. Regardless of your stance on the issue, Seth Myers is just damn funny. And so are the Keebler elves. Watch:

Today is 4/20, a.k.a. National Pot Smoking Day. Its exact origins aren’t known–some say it’s the time (4:20pm) that a group of California teens in 1971 met to toke up. Here are some fun 420 facts and myths from Snopes.com. And Huffington Post has done an in-depth look at the origins of 420. And High…

Stephen Hawking, the mathematician and physicist famous for his work on black holes, is reportedly hospitalized with a chest infection and is very seriously ill, according to the Associated Press.  Though I admit to understanding very little of his work, I admire Hawking very much.  He has devoted his life to finding a “unified theory,”…
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