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A Visit to a Park Can Dramatically Improve Your Mood in Just 20 Minutes
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
If you need a pick me up, head to the nearest park. Researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham found that spending 20 minutes in a park or similar green space is enough to significantly boost a person’s mood. To test how important parks were when it came to improving people’s moods, the researchers recruited local…
What Makes a Perfect Day? Research Shows It’s the Little Things
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Stephanie Hertzenberg
What makes for a perfect day? The U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council wanted to find out what most people picture as an ideal day. The answers, of course, varied wildly, but the USHBC did find a number of commonalities in participants’ responses. For most people, it was the little things in life that made for the…
The Flying Seagull Project Brings Laughter to Refugee Children
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Wesley Baines
In 2014, the number of forcibly displaced people in the world numbered almost 60 million—that’s a 40 percent increase since 2011. The largest groups come from Syria, where civil war rages and explosions rip through the concrete walls of homes on a regular basis. Other refugees from all across the Middle East and Africa flee…
Looking for Life Beyond Your Comfort Zone
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Jennifer E. Jones
There’s a good chance you were meant for more than what you’re doing right now. Think about it. What did you want to be when you were a child? Before anyone told you it wasn’t possible? Before you convinced yourself you wouldn’t be any good at it? Now think about where you are now. See…
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