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IQ scores have been steadily declining for decades, and it’s not caused by genetics, according to a new study. The study was published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America by researchers from the University of Michigan. They used administrative register data with information on family relationships and […]
The wellbeing of Indigenous people is based around having the freedom and resources to practise cultural ways of being. While some of these can seem removed from those in the West – such as the lack of materialism, primacy of kin and a close relationship to the natural world – including them in mainstream culture […]
The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter of the Nobel Prizes in physics of the last century are direct inputs to or direct results of the Standard Model. Yet its name suggests that if you can afford a few extra dollars a […]
I have three questions for you… Q1: Do you find yourself spending more time on your smartphone than you realize? Q2: Do you wish you could do something to reduce the hold your phone has over you? Q3: Are you to blame? *** We seem to live in a world these days reminiscent of one […]
Just last week I was offered a job. A bread-and-butter-type job that a 23-year-old university student with barely any cents to his name couldn’t pass up. The only catch was that it kinda went against every single thing I believe in…. That is, since I recently read a book by Franklin Foer called World Without […]
Do you sometimes feel like you’re sabotaging yourself? That you have all these ambitious goals — eating healthy, working out, being successful — but at one point or the other you screw up? You’re not alone — it’s like self-sabotage is part of human nature. The good news is that we’re not powerless against it. […]
A lack of essential nutrients is known to contribute to the onset of poor mental health in people suffering from anxiety and depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and ADHD. Nutritional psychiatry is a growing discipline that focuses on the use of food and supplements to provide these essential nutrients as part of an integrated or alternative […]
Do you ever wake up in the middle of the night? Or even at odd times, like at 4 am when you really want to wake up at 7 am? It’s been happening to me a lot lately. The worst is the latter, when I wake up at 4 or 5 am and then find […]
