OVERCOMING WRITER’S BLOCK: STRATEGIES FOR UNLEASHING CREATIVITY
Writer’s block is a common challenge faced by writers, whether they are professionals, students, or hobbyists. This frustrating condition, where ideas seem to dry up and words refuse to flow,…
THE ANTI-AGING POWERS OF ANTIOXIDANTS
Inside your body, an army of antioxidants is protecting you from the forces of aging and disease. Here’s why we’re huge fans of these stellar nutrients and how you can…
INSECTS AS FEED FOR LIVESTOCK MAY BE GAME CHANGER
In South America, rain forests continue to be cleared to grow soya to feed European animals but could the farming of insects provide the solution? One potential solution to the…
BAN ON BEE-HARMING INSECTICIDES MAY SAVE EU BEES
Countries across the European Union — including the UK — vote to ban the outdoor use of three bee-harming pesticides The EU has agreed to ban a group of insecticides…
YALE UNIVERSITY ‘HAPPINESS IS’ MOST POPULAR CLASS
A class titled Psychology and the Good Life at Yale University in the US is so popular that one in four undergraduate students have enrolled. Laurie Santos, the psychology professor…
THE NEUROBIOLOGY BASIS OF INTEGRITY
Let your better self rest assured: Dearly held values truly are sacred, and not merely cost-benefit analyses masquerading as nobel intent, concludes a new study on the neurobiology of moral…
PLANT-BASED BOTTLES THAT DEGRADE IN 1 YEAR MIGHT END PLASTIC PROBLEMS
A biochemicals company in the Netherlands hopes to kickstart investment in a pioneering project that plans to develop plastics made 100% from plant-based materials. The initiative, devised by renewable chemicals…