What do Mother Theresa, Nelson Mandela, Morgan Freeman, Martin Luther King, and Nicole Kidman have in common? They’re all INFJ’s! The string of letters, INFJ, might not mean much to you, but together, they represent an unusual combination of personality traits. So unusual, in fact, that only about 1 or 2% of the world’s population is...

Building habits is like lifting weights at the gym. At first, it’s extremely difficult. The muscles break down after you workout, and you never want to pick up another dumbbell again. But when you do, it gets easier until you can lift that heavyweight without any strain. Your muscles have recovered and grown stronger. Mental...

Science shows that you can meditate yourself into a near-death experience. These meditation-induced near-death experiences (MI-NDE) can help us better understand what the body goes through in the moments just before we die. (1) Meditation-Induced Near-Death Experiences There are several Buddhist texts written by those who achieved MI-NDE and who became masters of it in...

The Ancient Greeks were known for their understanding of many principles of science. Two that are particularly notable are in the fields of astronomy and mechanical know-how. After finally deciphering the inner workings of an Ancient Greek device, however, researchers have determined that the Greeks’ understanding of these concepts was far greater than what we...

Humans have been eating oysters for thousands and thousands of years. For many, a warm summer evening wouldn’t be complete without a plate of oysters and a glass of champagne, and due to their reported aphrodisiac qualities, they are a first-date choice of many.  Maybe oysters are one of your favorite foods, but did you...

Alaina Gassler is a freshman student at Avon Grove Charter School in Pennsylvania was recently announced as the winner of the 9th annual Broadcom MASTERS®, the nation’s premier Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) middle school competition.  Placing first of thirty competing middle-school students, across 13 states, and representing a total of 28 schools, this...

Back in those days during basic practical physics, we established that magnetism is NOT a static force. IF you were never bothered by the inconsistencies in your readings in the physics laboratory, our planet has a whole new package of concerns for you to think about. Geomagnetic jerks are sudden and rapid time-derived changes in...

The average life expectancy in the United States is currently just over 78 years old [1]. Thanks to many modern inventions, humans today are living much longer than they did one and two hundred years ago. Some experts believe, however, that in the future some people could live to be 1000 years old. Sound crazy?...

As of 2018, twenty-six percent of the world’s energy came from renewable sources, and that number is expected to rise to forty-five percent by the year 2040 [1]. Currently, over sixty percent of renewable energy production comes from “traditional biomass”, which refers to the burning of wood, forest materials, and agricultural waste. The remaining thirty-five...

23-year-old Chastity Patterson from Arkansas was heartbroken when she lost her father in 2015 [1]. She missed him so terribly that she continued updating him about her life, sending text messages to his phone number and pouring out her heart whenever she needed someone to talk to.  This went on for four years and Chastity...

Turn on your radio, television, computer – anything – and you will probably hear something about women’s rights or harassment. Just over a year ago in October of 2017, the #MeToo campaign spread across the internet like wildfire. Since then, the awareness of the reality of sexual harassment that women face every single day has...

It’s one of our biggest questions: what exactly happens when we die? Death is but a mystery of life. Some call it our ‘next big adventure’. Patients at a Hospice in New York are revealing some incredibly insightful knowledge, about their slow process of dying. Dr. Christopher Kerr and his Hospice team have been observing...