Embrace your inner Winter Olympian: The art and science of enjoying exercise in the cold

Let’s face it: When most of us see the temperature outside fall to minus double digits, our first instinct isn’t to gleefully run outside. I was...

‘Hangxiety’: why some people experience anxiety during a hangover

The morning after a night of drinking is never fun if you’ve got a hangover. For most people, hangovers involve a headache, fatigue, thirst or nausea....

Why are we seeing more northern lights this year?

Solar cycle 25 is kicking off in style. Our sun has a cycle of activity and as it becomes more active, there will be more sightings...

What is walking meditation?

For Thich Nhat Hanh, the late Vietnamese monk who popularized mindfulness in the West, walking was not simply a way to get from one place to...

Not everyone is male or female – the growing controversy over sex designation

Check out your birth certificate and surely you’ll see a designation for sex. When you were born, a doctor or clinician assigned you the “male” or...

Three tips to help you stay motivated to keep exercising all year long

February. The month of shattered dreams and ambitions. The trainers are gathering dust and chocolate bars have replaced protein bars. The gusto with which we attacked...

Wishes of good luck are pouring this Chinese New Year, but how do we invite it into our lives?

A new year has come and so is a new chapter of everybody’s lives. With everything you went through these past months, you just want to...

How to Regulate Pandemic Anxiety? Trust Your Body

Being receptive to opposing views — why it matters (plus 3 tips to help journalists build rapport with distrustful sources)

A new paper examines decades of research on receptiveness to opposing views, offering insights into how to evaluate other people’s opinions and why some discussions —...

‘Memory, justice’: Israel, PH remember victims of Holocaust

MANILA — The Philippines and Israel on Thursday honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the darkest point in history that saw the mass murder...