Top tropical ecologists have spent two decades studying the impact of climate change on a single transect in the Peruvian Andes, an area unparalleled in its biodiversity. They find that every species studied there is struggling against warming temperatures.
Arkansans old enough to remember when Life was a popular weekly magazine also may recognize the carefully coiffed woman pictured on one of its covers a half-century ago. The weathered issue is displayed on the dining room table of Ferguson House, the first Pine Bluff residence placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Arkansans old enough to remember when Life was a popular weekly magazine also may recognize the carefully coiffed woman pictured on one of its covers a half-century ago. The weathered issue is displayed on the dining-room table of Ferguson House, the first Pine Bluff residence placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
As children, many of us were taught to be mindful of our elders. Perhaps we also should have been instructed to be more mindful of ourselves.
A new âfirst-of-a-kind studyâ done in conjunction with local nonprofit Becoming Jackson Whole is demonstrating that youngsters and elders â and all ages in between â could realize significant benefits from mindfulness and by training themselves to be more attentive.
The study was conducted by Becoming Jackson Wholeâs chief science advisor Dr. Amishi Jha, a cognitive neuroscientist at Floridaâs University of Miami. She reported âsignificant benefits in the areas of cognitive, emotional and social functioningâ as the result of an eight-hour course called âMindfulness-Based Attention Trainingâ followed by four weeks of mindfulness practice, according to Becoming Jackson Whole.