There’s something more frightening than the kid-sized vampires, witches, and skeletons who will prowl the streets this Halloween: the paint on their faces.Gov’t officials called out the FDA for its lax regulations regarding face paints, which have been found to contain traces of spooky chemicals. “When it comes to the kind of makeup our kids slather on at Halloween, lead, nickel, and cobalt do […]
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The less sleep you get, the more likely you are to be overweight. Now, The New York Times reports, scientists have discovered one reason why: Sleep loss causes changes in the brain that make you crave high-calorie foods and weakens your willpower to resist them. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, scanned the brains of volunteers while they looked […]
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ADHD (Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder) is known to affect the child’s ability to pay attention. A study found that 1/3 of the children in the study did have ADHD when they became adults. It also may find that when they are adults, they may also have other psychic problems, more likely to get arrested, or likely to commit suicide. The children […]
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
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“To be truly free does not at all mean doing everything that pleases me, or doing what I want to do. . . . To be truly free means to use one’s own freedom for what is a true good.” – Pope Francis
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Before the Flood, directed by Fisher Stevens, is a documentary that captures a three year personal journey of the Academy Award-winning actor and U.N. Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio. What was Leonardo Dicaprio’s Mission in Before the Flood? His mission was to explore the level of destruction climate change has caused around the world, and to sensitise the world’s nations […]
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“Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures” – Thornton Wilder
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Percentage of the world’s population that could fit in Texas by living with the population density of New York City: 100
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“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.” ― Meister Eckhart
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