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Splash! A Swimming Pool for Peace

Water is the source of life. It is a versatile solvent, conducts electricity, can be a solid, a liquid, or a gas. If water did not evaporate, we would not have clouds, rain, plants or, for that matter, any living thing. Covering more than 70 percent of the earth, this magnificent element is the most abundant substance on the surface of the planet.

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Human Consciousness and the Global Brain

Do you ever get the feeling that life is moving a little faster with each passing day? That there’s more going on and less time to catch up with it all? You’re probably not alone. The pace of communication, transportation, and even the changes to our physical environment seems to be accelerating

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Making A Yoga Business Financially Healthy

For many Americans, yoga is no longer just an escape from the material world. In fact, the opposite seems to be true. Yoga has become a powerful part of fitness, social, and spiritual culture. And perhaps more tellingly, it is now one of the fastest growing industries in American business. As the yoga industry continues to thrive, it faces a new dilemma

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Economic Versus Mental Health: A Perspective from South Korea

South Korea is a high-tech industrialized nation. Joining the “trillion-dollar club” of world economies in 2004, a far cry from a war-torn country dependent on foreign aid as it was when the Korean War ended in 1953. Currently, it boasts the 12th largest economy in the world and its influence is spreading.

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Leather, Whips, Kink, Relationships (and the Brain): A Look Into the BDSM Lifestyle

Mea Jenkins, a public relations professional based in Los Angeles, was first introduced to BDSM by a man she found through an online dating service. Jenkins, a divorced mother of two, was extremely skeptical of this strange new culture at first, but as he and his friends welcomed her in, she eventually decided to give kink a try.

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How a Bang to the Head Can Affect a Child for Life

Head injury was a fact of life for Malek since elementary school, when he slammed his head into a brick wall while roller-skating. Not long after, he noticed his behavior beginning to change. “I was a well-adjusted kid with good parents, a good family, good home, and within a few weeks I developed a terrible temper,” he recalls.

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Bringing Neuroscience to the Community

It has been a long journey, a journey driven by my heart and maneuvering my way from the science lab to the community. After receiving my Ph.D. and postdoctoral training in neuroscience from Yale University, I taught and trained students and psychiatric residents at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

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Crystal Clear: An Interview with Comedy Legend Billy Crystal

Few comedians are more beloved than Tony- and Emmy Award-winning actor, producer, writer, and director Billy Crystal. Who can forget memorable films like “When Harry Met Sally,” “City Slickers,” “Throw Momma from the Train,” and “Analyze This”? As cast member of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,”

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An Explorer’s Guide to Epigenetics

You just might be stuck with that crooked nose or receding hairline, but no longer are you sentenced to cancer, diabetes, depression, and other unwelcome inheritances from your forebears. The science of epigenetics is teaching us how we can better understand and perhaps override specific genetic tendencies.

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Israel: From “Startup” Nation to “Brain” Nation

At Israel Brain Technologies, a nonprofit organization dedicated to turning Israel into an international hub of brain technology and related research, this is a riddle we have dedicated ourselves to solving. So, how does a country establish itself as a leading brain-technology cluster?

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The Brains Behind The Orgasm

Science is now taking a closer look at our most intimate experience to discover the inner workings of the human orgasm. Armed with fMRIs and PET scanners, neuroscientists are now able to see what the brain looks like during the peak of sexual fulfillment.

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The Happy School Campaign in South Korea

South Korea’s academic environment is extremely competitive, and many Korean people regard getting into a prestigious university as a prerequisite to success. This kind of atmosphere in society puts great pressure on young people, often resulting in extreme social problems like youth suicide.

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Can Addiction Be Positive?

Is there such a thing as “positive” addiction? It sounds contradictory. But what exactly is addiction? An issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter advises us that uncontrollable craving and prolonged use of a substance are involved. The idea of craving was highlighted by research in the 1990s

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Walt Disney’s Visual-Spacial Giftedness

Fantasyland, cleverly hidden behind Sleeping Beauty Castle, was, out of the five Disneyland lands, the one most important to Walt Disney himself. Disney’s flare for visual-spatial wonderment was played out here at what was once the core of the Magic Kingdom experience

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Syncing To The Rhythms Of Vibrant Health

Such a response is not unusual. After all, what kind of results can you get just by rocking your head back and forth or shaking your body? Conventional wisdom suggests real results only come through a lot of sweat and sore muscles. Could it really be that such a simple exercise can result in remarkable improvements in health?

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