The Healing Power Behind Gratitude And A Handwritten Thank You Note
Interest in gratefulness practices exploded during the pandemic. Gina Hamadey explores the latest research into how and why being thankful can help during dark times. By Gina Hamadey Fine Art Photographic
“Will the pool make us cleaner or dirtier?” I asked my husband, lying in the shade and clocking how grimy he and the kids and I all were after two days of no power or running water. It was the summer of 2020, and after being cooped up in the city for the first few months of COVID we were living with his parents in the rural Berkshires.
Published May 3, 2021 at 10:30 AM PDT
What we now call barbecue had a part in how we developed as a species.
It s true, cooking our food over fires made it possible for us to take in nutrition more easily. It probably helped our brains grow.
It turns out a lot of things made our brains grow into the organ now capable of great feats of thinking. Bret Stetka, non-practicing physician and science journalist, gives us the long view, in
The Best Of Our Knowledge #1593
There’s a whole lot going on inside our head that we don’t understand. Don’t feel bad, there are a lot of world class experts that are just as puzzled about what makes the human brain tick. Bret Stetka tries to unravel what we actually do know in his new book called “
A History of the Human Brain – From the Sea Sponge to CRISPR, How Our Brain Evolved”. Bret Stetka is editorial director at Medscape, the professional division of Web MD. He is also a contributor to NPR and Scientific American.
Also a report on a second chance for some West Point cheaters, and we’ll spend an Academic Minute explaining science.