Your All-Day Guide to Better Sleep
Source: Time By Abigail Abrams When people say they want to get healthier, they often focus on just two things: eating better and exercising more. But sleeping well is also a […]
How can I cope better with stress?
theguardian: by Luisa Dillner — Some people can bounce back from life’s pressures, but others do not seem to have the capacity. Can anything help them to strengthen their emotional armour? How people cope with disappointment used to be considered a genetic trait, but techniques can be learned. Photograph: […]
The true meaning of life
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 2 January 2017 Most of us probably do not need to think too hard to distinguish living things from the “non-living”. A human is alive; […]
The secret of how life began
Source: BBC By Michael Marshall How did life begin? There can hardly be a bigger question. For much of human history, almost everyone believed some version of “the gods did […]
A Stressful Job Could Be Good for Your Health
Source: Money By Kerry Close But you need flexibility and autonomy. Good news: Your high-pressure job may actually be improving your health. A new study from Indiana University has found that […]
What Being My Sister’s Bone Marrow Donor Taught Me About Love
Source: Motto By Elizabeth Lesser My younger sister Maggie was a renaissance woman—a no-nonsense nurse practitioner in a rural Vermont community, an accomplished artist, a mother and farmer and beekeeper […]
5 Ways to Set Achievable Goals
Source: Motto By Lindsey Caldwell Feeling overwhelmed or confused on your current path or in your current career? You’re not alone. But we have the choice to live our lives […]
USA: Ahmadiyya’s “Muslims for Life” program conducts Blood donation Drive in Dayton
BY SIDNEY DAILY NEWS Christians, Muslims and Jews join for community’ 9/11 event RELIGION | Staff report DAYTON — The public is invited to participate in program which remembers sacrifices, seeks peace and supports unity on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 11. The event will be held at the Dayton PeaceHeroes Walk Around the […]
Find out what really killed the Neanderthals
Source: BBC By Pierangelo Pirak 14 July 2016 In a special series, BBC Earth has recreated the last days of the last Neanderthal on Earth. It is a story based […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Muhammad Ali Became a Big Brother to Me—and to All African-Americans
Source: Time By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. Abdul-Jabbar is a six-time NBA champion and league Most Valuable Player. He is the author of the […]
Video: Muhammad Ali on Purpose of Life
He is suggesting what other’s have called: Pascal’s Wager, which is an argument in apologetic philosophy devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–62).[1] It posits […]
How To Create A Sacred Space In Your Home
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — Make room for wonder, no matter what your beliefs are. Even if you can only stop by it for 10 seconds every day, having a space for quiet reflection in your home is a reminder to check in with yourself. Whether you’re religious, non-religious, or […]
4 Surprising Ways Science is Battling Aging
Source: Time New strategies could mean big advances in staying young For humans, death in old age has always been life’s great punchline. It takes 70 or 80 years to […]
One amazing substance allowed life to thrive on land
Source: BBC Mud. Muck. Dirt. Although we have plenty of words for it, we rarely give soil a second thought. But without soil, we would certainly be dead. Soil is […]
How Coffee Can Help You Live Longer
Source: Time There’s great news for coffee lovers this week. A new study published in the journal Circulation found that regular coffee drinkers—people who drank less than five cups of […]
The Disease of Being Busy
O Being: by Omid Safi — I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.” Almost […]
Foetal damage caused by alcohol ‘equivalent to attempted manslaughter’
theguardian: by Owen Bowcott — Lawyers pursuing compensation claim on behalf of child, say mother’s heavy drinking constitutes crime of poisoning The case has triggered a debate about the rights of the foetus and calls for women who drink excessively during pregnancy to be prosecuted. Pevere damage inflicted on an […]
Barbara Brown Taylor On The Hardest Thing To Accept In Life — And How To Come Around
Huff Post — For the past 16 years, Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor has been a professor of religion at Piedmont College in north Georgia. There, she is surrounded by young adults just beginning their lives, eager to find their own paths. To do that, they ask questions, explore new ideas and […]
Ten easy steps to happier living
theguardian: by Mark Williamson — Caring for someone else can boost your happiness. We’re constantly bombarded with messages about what makes for a good life. Advertisers tell us it comes from owning and consuming their products. The media associate it with wealth, beauty or fame. And politicians claim that […]
Nominating Karen Armstrong for Literature Nobel Prize
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A […]