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“Stink!” Follows a Dad on a Quest to Uncover the Toxins His Kids Encounter in Their Home

A new film follows a father on his quest to uncover the industrial chemicals his daughters encounter via everyday products.

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Mindfulness: How to Feel Comfortable in Your Own Skin, with Jon Kabat-Zinn

Your brain is regularly inhibited by aversion, apprehension, greed, and fear. Mindfulness exercises can help change that.

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Want to Do Something Good for Your Health? Try Being Generous

Our initial findings provide some of the strongest evidence to date that daily decisions related to engaging in financial generosity can have causal benefits for physical health.

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How to Build a Culture of Good Health

Physical well-being depends on more than keeping our bodies fit. Emotions and the people who come into our lives matter just as much.

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Eat & Drink

Bee-Free Diet: Would You Die Without Bees to Pollinate Your Food?

One in three bites of your food includes a bee-pollinated item.

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Eat & Drink

Want to Waste Less Food at Home? There’s a Handbook for That

A scientist offers practical tips for reducing food waste at home.

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The Psychological Origins of Procrastination: How to Stop Putting Things Off

Why do we procrastinate? Are we built to operate this way at some times? Or is there something wrong with the way we’re approaching work?

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Demanding Medicare-for-All, Medical Students Rise Up Nationwide

“Very early in our medical careers… we learn that inequality, preventable illness, and death are an inherent part of our current private, for-profit-oriented health insurance system.”

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Who Cares for the Caregivers?

Caregifted grants respite to long-term family caregivers and works to increase public recognition of their gifts to society.

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Eat & Drink

Prophetic Author of Diet for a Small Planet on State of Food, Democracy

An interview with Frances Moore Lappè, author who helped awaken millions of people to the connections between our diets, our bodies, and the fate of the planet.