Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
Pets awaken our hearts in a way that nothing else can. Yes, human relationships are very important, but our pets can open our hearts in a quiet very sweet way that nothing else can.
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- Written by: Richard Webster
You can communicate with your pet verbally or by thinking about what you want. Your pet can read your thoughts whenever he or she wants to, but most of your thoughts are of no interest to anyone else, pets included.
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- Written by: Manal Mohammed, Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
There’s nothing quite like crawling into bed, wrapping up in your blankets, and nestling your head into your pillow.
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- Written by: Duke University
Millions of people returning to the workplace means millions of dogs left home alone, some of them never having experienced their people being gone all day.
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- Written by: Laura Oleniacz, NC State
New insecticide-free, mosquito-resistant clothing is made from materials researchers have confirmed to be bite-proof in experiments with live mosquitoes.
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- Written by: Fay Johnstone
As an herbalist I have a very different view of weeds than the average gardener who can’t abide common garden weeds such as nettle, dandelion and plantain. These plants and many more of our garden weeds are nutritious and full of minerals and beneficial medicinal properties.
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- Written by: Fay Johnstone
As an herbalist I have a very different view of weeds than the average gardener who can’t abide common garden weeds such as nettle, dandelion and plantain. These plants and many more of our garden weeds are nutritious and full of minerals and beneficial medicinal properties.
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- Written by: Robin Smith, Duke University
New research comparing dog puppies to human-reared wolf pups offers some clues to how dogs got so good at reading people.
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- Written by: Matt Shipman, NC State
Researchers have developed a new patch that plants can “wear” to continuously monitors for diseases or other stresses, such as crop damage or extreme heat.
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- Written by: Amy Quinton-UC Davis
A cat’s DNA alters how it responds to a life-saving medication used to treat hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, researchers report.
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- Written by: Miriam Rotkin-Ellman and Tom Hucker
All of us want to keep our children and pets safe. So, what do we do when EPA allows the sale of products that jeopardize the health of our kids and pets across the country?
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- Written by: Karen Kirstine Christensen-Dalsgaard, Assistant Professor in Plant Biology and Urban Ecology
In building cities, we have created some of the harshest habitats on Earth — and then chosen to live in them.
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- Written by: Fay Johnstone
Since we are part of nature, like the plants and the animal kingdom, we have the capacity for learning the subtle whispers of nature and communicating with the natural world that surrounds us. We each have the innate ability to perceive the language of nature...
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- Written by: Jaigris Hodson, Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
Now that over 61 per cent of Canadians have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, we’re on our way to herd immunity. Unfortunately however, this trend could be at risk as a result of vaccine misinformation, which has made some people hesitant to get a vaccine.
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- Written by: Sage Holloway
In treating stress-related disorders in animals that we share our lives with, we must first look honestly at ourselves. How is the stress that we are carrying affecting them? Animals who are closely knit with their human families experience extreme stress when their humans do.
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- Written by: Andrew Parnell, Research Fellow in Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield
From icy tundras to billowing clouds, the colour white crops up repeatedly in our planet’s palette. This colour provides a natural way for light from the sun to reflect back from the Earth’s surface and into space. This effect – known as the planet’s albedo – has a huge impact on average global temperature.
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- Written by: Avalon C.S. Owens and Sara Lewis, Tufts University
Before humans invented fire, the only things that lit up the night were the moon, the stars and bioluminescent creatures – including fireflies.
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- Written by: Lauren Finka, Nottingham Trent University
There are many valid theories to explain the global appeal of cats, including our obsession with watching videos of them online. In terms of cats’ pure entertainment value, however, our fascinations are probably attributable to their seemingly endless repertoire of bizarre behaviours.
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- Written by: Nancy Windheart
In my blog posts, free resources, and courses, I talk a lot about the things that we can do to support and develop our inborn, natural interspecies communication abilities. In this post, I want to talk about some things that can interfere with our ability to hear and understand our other-than-human companions clearly.
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- Written by: Nancy Windheart
In my blog posts, free resources, and courses, I talk a lot about the things that we can do to support and develop our inborn, natural interspecies communication abilities. In this post, I want to talk about some things that can interfere with our ability to hear and understand our other-than-human companions clearly.
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- Written by: Seirian Sumner, UCL
Humanity has always had a rocky relationship with wasps. They are one of those insects that we love to hate. We value bees (which also sting) because they pollinate our crops and make honey
