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Reflect

Heart Rate Variability Science Meets Mindfulness

The research, tools, and practices that increase well-being, mental clarity, performance and emotional stability.

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Reflect

A Tale of Two Zip Codes

What determines how long we live? Inequality—it even reduces the lifespan of our society’s “winners.”

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Eat & Drink

Dr. Brant Cortright: The Neurogenesis Diet

How to enhance cognitive function by increasing neurogenesis—the process of making new brain cells.

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Eat & Drink

Terroir of Honey: Meet Bee Local’s Damian Marista

Meet Damian Marista of Bee Local in Portland and learn about the terroir of honey.

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Change

Portland Joins Seattle, Berkeley, Oakland, San Diego and San Jose in Filing Suit Against Monsanto

Portland city council passes resolution allowing city attorney to take legal action.

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Reflect

Is Water a (Positive) Human Right?

I went on a search to find our right to clean drinking water in U.S. and international law.

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Eat & Drink

Dr. Michael Greger: How Not To Die

Dr. Greger visits Google to discuss his new book How Not to Die.

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Reflect

About Time! FDA Will Begin Testing Foods for Toxic Weedkiller Residue

The agency has never tested for glyphosate, despite its status as the most heavily used herbicide ever and a ‘probable carcinogen.’

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Change

Compassion: Being Kind Is Our Default Response

To describe humans as innately selfish is empirically false.

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Reflect

What Our Breasts Are Telling Us

Author Florence Williams and her daughter discovered they had high levels of toxins—like flame retardants—in their bodies. Getting rid of the chemicals was harder than they expected.