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In These Cities, Car-Free Streets Are Here To Stay
What happens when you close down a city street to cars? More people do non-driving things, like walking, biking, strolling, skating and frolicking in the space normally reserved for motor vehicles. Car-free advocates would say that as greenhouse gas emissions...
The U.S. diet is deadly. Here are 7 ideas to get Americans eating healthier
The data are stark: the typical American diet is shortening the lives of many Americans. Diet-related deaths outrank deaths from smoking, and about half of U.S. deaths from heart disease – nearly 900 deaths a day – are linked to...
A Nobel Prize-Winning Psychologist Says Most People Don’t Really Want to Be Happy
We think we want to be happy. Yet many of us are actually working toward some other end, according to cognitive psychologist Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics. Kahneman contends that happiness and satisfaction are distinct. Happiness...
December Artist of the Month: Roland Nissan
Artist Statement: Roland Nissan I’m an urban sketcher and painter working primarily around London and the Southeast of England. I concentrate on buildings and street scenes. Since I use my sketchbooks as a...
This is what’s happening to your brain in the middle of a conflict
A few months ago, I was introduced over email to a consultant, who I’ll call Brad. The person who made the introduction thought Brad would make a good contributor to Harvard Business Review, where I work as an editor. I receive...
The Power of “Thanks”
In Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the Plan, Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, explores a range of fascinating subjects, including how emotions influence decisions and the often-thorny matter of understanding the perspectives...
Our Buildings Are Making Us Sick
For years, Alan, a designer in Vermont, had a persistent, hacking cough that kept him up at night, and every winter, a near-constant series of sore throats and colds. He visited his doctor’s office, got diagnosed with reflux...
A Journey Into the Animal Mind
Amid the human crush of Old Delhi, on the edge of a medieval bazaar, a red structure with cages on its roof rises three stories above the labyrinth of neon-lit stalls and narrow alleyways, its top floor emblazoned with two...
4 Laws of Muscle
At a conference in 2012, Luc van Loon was presenting some exciting data from a newly published study. After a heroic research effort that took 2.5 years and 500,000 euros, he and his colleagues had managed to shepherd a large...
November Artist of the Month: Mikko Tyllinen
Artist Statement: I’m a self-taught artist from Finland, working in many different traditional mediums and digital art. I especially like to create digital art that feels as if it’s made in a traditional medium. It feels that...
8 Tips For Living In The New Reality
I believe that the new reality is here now … that it’s liveable in wonderful ways, all while the old reality is seemingly crumbling around us. Here are some tips for brilliant living in the new …. Seek breathtaking...
Using The Four Agreements in Daily Life
Spiritual teacher Don Miguel Ruiz brought The Four Agreements into Western awareness. A new thought author versed in ancestral knowledge, Ruiz says the agreements come from Toltec wisdom. The Toltecs were a pre-Hispanic culture living in central Mexico, talented artists...
Give Your Yard Back to Nature
Most American yards don’t reflect their ecological condition. The plants need to be treated with fertilizer because the soil’s not right. They want water the weather doesn’t provide. Wildlife disappears because they no longer have food to eat. All...
Longevity Linked to Proteins That Calm Overexcited Neurons
A thousand seemingly insignificant things change as an organism ages. Beyond the obvious signs like graying hair and memory problems are myriad shifts both subtler and more consequential: Metabolic processes run less smoothly; neurons respond less swiftly; the replication of...
How to Recover from a Happy Childhood
Recovering from a happy childhood can take a long time. It’s not often that I’m suspected of having had one. I grew up in Norman, Oklahoma, a daughter of immigrants. When I showed up at college and caught sight of...
Why Don’t More Men Take Their Wives’ Last Names?
In the run-up to marriage, many couples, particularly those of a more progressive bent, will encounter a problem: What is to be done about the last name? Some have attempted work-arounds: the Smiths and Taylors who have become Smith-Taylors, Taylor-Smiths...
Remaking the World
I love consciousness. I love Life. I love the universe. And I love this planet. Putting all that together over the last 25 years has resulted in me (along with many of my maestro buddies) becoming consciousness innovators, sources...
How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”
What does love mean, exactly? We have applied to it our finest definitions; we have examined its psychology and outlined it in philosophical frameworks; we have even devised a mathematical formula for attaining it. And yet anyone who has ever taken this wholehearted leap of faith...
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