‘Long life is something some people are blessed with. But these people also do a few things differently to those who don’t live as long. Today we try and unlock four of those habits that we can all implement in our lives.’ We all want to live long lives. Generally speaking, with a few exceptions,...Read More
‘In the age of ‘me-me-me’ Facebook narcissism, we give you a three-step blueprint to break out of the vicious cycle and practice love, empathy and tenderness.’ Our minds are always telling us that we’re the most important thing in the world. Though we know from an intellectual standpoint that we’re but one face in the...Read More
Travelling across the world in a matter of 4 hours seems like a job for superman, right? But if Reaction Engines ltd. succeeds in its plans, it will be ‘normal’ passengers and not super humans who will be travelling halfway across the globe in a few hours. The British aerospace firm has been working on...Read More
‘Everyone loves a sneaky conspiracy theory. Today we bring you seven conspiracies from the world of high tech.’ We all love a good conspiracy theory. Roswell is one. The assassination of JFK is another. Some people say the moon landings never happened, that it was one elaborate ruse and a high budget Hollywood flick. Others...Read More
‘Geologists are excited to find a piece of Australia beneath Vanuatu. This could lead to a new understanding of tectonics and geology if investigated further.’ Whenever geologists find rocks that ‘shouldn’t be there’, it gets them all excited. With good reason, of course. So when a team of scientists from James Cook University in Australia...Read More
This is probably going to be radical for many of you, but do you know that sitting for long periods of time continuously causes irreversible health problems? It is only in this generation that the vast majority of people across the world have ‘sitting jobs’. Even previously ‘active’ jobs such as that of an architect...Read More
‘If writing novels is like planting a forest,’ says the celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami in an introduction to his book of short stories, ‘then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure.’ Gulzar, the famous Hindi poet best known for...Read More
India celebrated its sixty-fifth Independence Day on August 15, 2014. The world’s most unique country, its largest functioning democracy, a country which has been given no hope of surviving into its second decade after it wrested freedom from colonial rule in 1947, a country which is home to at least twenty different languages and cultures,...Read More
Once again the weight police are out on patrol, and now they’re selling a new kind of food that you could eat and lose weight. This time it’s not a miracle food, though. It’s just plain old berries. To be more specific, cranberries. A world specialist in the health effects of berry fruits, Professor Yves...Read More
This is probably the most bizarre carcinogen we’d ever heard of. Move over, cigarettes and tar and asbestos; if a recent study can be believed, it appears that sitting too much can cause cancer. Not all kinds of cancer, mind you (thank God for small mercies), but definitely for endometrial and colon cancer.Read More