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Is it possible to receive the physiological benefits of meditating without having to formally sit and meditate? In 1975, Dr. Herbert Benson, a pioneer in mind-body medicine, coined the term “The Relaxation Response” to describe a beneficial physiological response in...

Jet lag refers to the group of symptoms that we experience after rapid travel across time zones. Jet lag occurs because the body clock, driving our daily rhythms in our physiology and behaviour, can't instantaneously shift to the new destination...

By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory, animal studies suggest. Experiments showed that a traumatic event could affect...

Among the many replies we received on this blog, one came from Story of Stuff’s Annie Leonard. She felt it was important that the other side of waste incineration be told, and guided The Pachamama Alliance to an organization –...

Tom Standage argues that writing, which allows ideas to travel across space and time, has done the most for human progress ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, January/February 2012 The greatest invention of all must surely be writing. It is not...