Whilst researching my latest book, Food for Life, I learnt that we’re very short of practical advice on food choices which are the most important things we can do for our health (humans and our gut microbes) and also...

In modern times, clocks underpin everything people do, from work to school to sleep. Timekeeping is also the invisible structure that makes modern infrastructure work. It forms the foundation of the high-speed computers that conduct financial trading and even the...

Not getting enough sleep is detrimental to both your health and productivity. Yawn. We’ve heard it all before. But results from one study impress just how bad a cumulative lack of sleep can be on performance. Subjects in a lab-based...

  I’ve been watching for how greatness shows up lately. For example, how Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney sourced Wrexham AFC into super winners with such grace, generousity and community spirit, and how Iam Tongi is winning the hearts of...

  The human brain is often described in the language of tipping points: It toes a careful line between high and low activity, between dense and sparse networks, between order and disorder. Now, by analyzing firing patterns from a record...

In the summer of 2021, I experienced a cluster of coincidences, some of which had a distinctly supernatural feel. Here’s how it started. I keep a journal and record dreams if they are especially vivid or strange. It doesn’t happen...

I have come far in my life, farther than I ever dreamed was even possible. And yet my dreaming continues, urging me ever onward. I understand consciousness and how to innovate within it. I thrill to making up new future...

If you’ve ever tried to meditate and found yourself growing restless or struggling to clear your mind, you’re not alone. “It’s the nature of the mind to have this ongoing conversation in the background,” says mindfulness practitioner and author, Joy Rains. “I call...

Consciousness permeates reality. Rather than being just a unique feature of human subjective experience, it’s the foundation of the universe, present in every particle and all physical matter. This sounds like easily-dismissible bunkum, but as traditional attempts to explain consciousness...

  About the Artist: I’ve been artistic all my life, but I don’t think of myself as an artist. I mainly write spiritual poetry; exploring our shared human condition. I paint small watercolour and ink paintings to accompany them on...

    What are the main threats to the continued survival of humanity? What catastrophes lie ahead? These may seem like uniquely modern questions posed by contemporary thinkers in the growing field of existential risk. Yet, millennia ago, ancient Greek and...

  Trauma!!! When you read this word, what do you feel viscerally in your body and emotionally? Does it bring up anxiety, sadness, feelings of not being good enough or other similar negative emotions or thoughts? Check inside yourself for...

Walking does great things for your mental health and cardiovascular fitness, but did you know that a good walk can also help you build the muscles in your legs and abs? When you want to give your muscles a good...

The sky was a classic California cloudless blue. The light, February soft. The sea breeze, easy, fragrant, and chilly. The waves, mellow laps against the rocky arch at the Natural Bridges State Marine Reserve, about 75 miles south of San...

    A Mayan Report for the year beginning on 2 IK and 8 MANIK. Equinox cycle from 3-21-2023 to 3-20-2024 A forecast blending the energies of two sacred Mayan Calendars.   Flowing in the Power Of Pure Spirit Mayan...

  The Neumayer III polar station sits near the edge of Antarctica’s unforgiving Ekström Ice Shelf. During the winter, when temperatures can plunge below minus 50 degrees Celsius and the winds can climb to more than 100 kilometers per hour...

  About the Artist: My name is Jessica Jacobsen. I grew up in the projects in New York City. Since I was a little girl, I’ve been drawn to the arts, which served as a distraction from my life circumstance...

The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from Socrates to Thoreau, from the Buddha to Wendell Berry, thinkers have been peddling it for more than two...