To the surprise of doctors, new research on acupuncture has found that the ancient Chinese healing technique provides real pain relief. Acupuncture involves sticking needles into specific points in the body that Chinese healers believe contain unseen energy pathways; the needles supposedly stimulate the flow of “qi,” or energy. Western medicine has viewed these claims with deep skepticism, contending that […]
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“If you worship money, you will always feel poor.” – Tom Sachs
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“As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent…. This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.” – Soren Kierkegaard
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Neanderthals, a sturdy hominid species closely related to Homo sapiens, lived in Europe for about 270,000 years until humans arrived on the continent, about 30,000 years ago, at which point they quickly disappeared. The latest theory for their puzzling extinction is that humans exterminated, and maybe even ate, their Neanderthal cousins. French anthropologist Fernando that the bacterial disease was present […]
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“Lives change like the weather, I hope you remember, Today is never too late to be brand new.” – “Innocent”, by Taylor Swift
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Paint My Heart Red by, Melissa R. Mendelson Say those three words, and paint my heart red. See the passion light inside, and keep me warm forever in your arms. And the movie ends. My heart is crystal, and all those lines are the scars from those that have come to break what I keep inside. Now, my […]
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