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Miserable & Magical: A Graduation Speech for Paradoxical Times0
- Making a Positive Difference
- June 5, 2013
Chosen by the student body of an elite private school in Silicon Valley to give the graduation address this year, Nipun Mehta discusses the sense of disconnect and isolation that has come from our hyper-connected world. Over a decade ago, Mehta walked away from a lucrative, high-tech career to form a nonprofit organization called ServiceSpace that built
READ MOREMeet Patrick Martins, Saving Endangered Livestock One Burger at a Time0
- Environmental Well-Being
- June 5, 2013
As the food industry continues to trend towards crossbreeding and hybridization (pushing many breeds of livestock towards endangerment), Patrick Martins' Heritage Foods USA encourages producers to raise disappearing breeds. GOOD, 5/29/2013
READ MOREThe New Rules for Sunscreen0
- Green Products
- June 4, 2013
As skin cancer rates continue to rise, here is some helpful advice on what to look for when selecting sunscreen. The New York Times, 5/28/2013
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‘Workplace Wellness’ fails bottom line, waistlines0
- Financial & Workplace Well-Being
- June 4, 2013
Rand Corp's report on workplace well-being– a 6 billion dollar industry– casts a doubt on the effectiveness of employee wellness programs. Keith Lemer, president of Wellnet, says it takes "senior level support and a high degree of employee engagement in healthy behaviors" for wellness programs to truly work. Although the report found that
READ MOREViolinist’s after-school program brings hope to kids, community0
- Making a Positive Difference
- May 31, 2013
In Venezuela, David France studied El Sistema, a community music education program that brings instruments and instruction to underprivileged kids. Now, David uses the money he makes playing the violin to fund Revolution of Hope, an after-school orchestra he started in the disenfranchised inner-city community of Roxbury, MA. Jose Duarte, principal of Dearborn Middle School,
READ MOREA Better Way to Treat Anxiety: For Teens, Therapy Turns Parents Into ‘Exposure Coaches,’ Not Protectors0
- Home & Family
- May 31, 2013
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and other institutions are finding that exposure therapy (which slowly exposes patients to the things they are anxious about) can be highly effective in helping children overcome anxiety. Teenager Georgiann Steely overcame her anxiety this way by taking part in a Mayo Clinic exposure therapy program where her parents acted
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