Science

Part of growing up, we’ve come to learn that patience is a virtue. Whether it’s a matter of being caught on the highway on the way home after finishing a long work day — or eagerly counting down the days until an exciting new movie, book, or film finally releases, patience is something we all have to embrace at some time or other.

For centuries, shamanic rituals have been practiced in numerous cultures across the globe in order to perceive and interact with the spirit world, heal the sick, communicate with the spirits, and escort souls of the dead to the afterlife. These collective ceremonies traditionally involve the participation of the

Over the course of the pandemic, we’ve seen eruptions of protests in a few pockets of the United States, as people demanded their country be “re-opened” — letting people go back to their daily routines — for things that we didn’t miss much before — but now seem like distant memories after several months of