How to Find Peace of Mind in the Modern World In my opinion this is the biggest problem we face as modern people. We might have flashy gadgets and shiny cool things, but in the end when it comes down to peace of mind we have nothing. I know for me at...
Manhattan memory project: How 9/11 changed our brains You'll probably remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you first learned that passenger jets had crashed into the World Trade Center. People tend to form exceptionally vivid...
Girl From Slumdog Millionaire Still Lives In Slums You cant save everyone. Sometimes because they dont wanna be saved. Mostly because they are too much of a pain in the ass to bother. Kids are different. Each kid deserves a shot at being better than...
Indonesia's smoking babies 'epidemic' What if the chain-smoking toddler in a 2010 viral video was just the tip of the country's tobacco problem? After a video of a chain-smoking 2-year-old Indonesian boy, Aldi, went viral last year, piling up 13 mill...
Top 10 Best Places to Retire in 2012 Better weather, affordable housing, and plenty of interesting things to do are just a few reasons people move to a new place when they retire. Whether you want to spend your golden years watching the sun set over...
How You Can Broaden Your Horizons with Travel Instead of just sitting on some tropical beach and sipping pina coladas during your vacations, it is very possible to get a ton of personal growth from your travels. But in order to do this, you will have...
Enrich Your Life By Making it a Story to Tell We have all heard the old adage, Life is short, go live it. The problem is that it takes so many people an entire life before they start living it or not living it. Its so easy to get stuck living the eve...
10 Tips from Grandma on Being a Woman My 68-year-old, small town Texas grandmother is the most quoted authority figure in my weekly Sex by Numbers column this fact says a good deal about how much I take to heart her advice. My grandmother never steer...
10 Great Places to Experience the Simple Life If you need to get away from it all this holiday season, take your stressed-out self to a place where life is a bit less complicated. Real Simple Magazine's managing editor, Kristin van Ogtrop, discusses...
Adapting To Change Should Be Natural I noticed that the leaves on most of the trees in the woods where I often take my dogs have started to change color. Normally, they are green but during the autumn season here in eastern Canada, they start to turn...
10 Great Places to Experience the Simple Life If you need to get away from it all this holiday season, take your stressed-out self to a place where life is a bit less complicated. Real Simple Magazine's managing editor, Kristin van Ogtrop, discusses...
Lack of soap means illness, death for millions of children STORY HIGHLIGHTS Millions of people in developing countries don't have access to soap or clean water Many young children die because their immune systems can't fight diarrheal diseases Often,...
The Richest, Fattest Nation on Earth (It's Not the United States) With maids, nannies, and cooks, many Qataris sit in their air-conditioned villas all day getting fatter and ignoring serious health problems Qatar is a tiny country with a big problem....
10 Ways for Workaholics To Slow down and Enjoy life With our hectic lives and severely over-packed schedules, we often find ourselves lost somewhere along the way. We work so hard to live passionately and abundantly, yet that same work so often becom...
7 Morning Hacks to Jumpstart Your Day Ill be the first to admit that Im really not a morning person. Ive tried to get myself going in the early hours of the morning, but Ive always been more of a night owl my creative juices seem to flow better in th...
