Tag: Break

“I don’t believe that language learning is about talent. It’s about consistently building a habit over time, being clear about what your goals are, and perseverance.” — Olly Richards interviewing Lingoda’s Mike Shangguan on the StoryLearning podcast Have you e...

Nowhere else can the importance of proper shoes be seen than when running. Running and jogging are two of the most common types of exercise, which is why nearly every gym around the world has at least a handful of treadmills. Runners don’t need too much stability when doing a low-intensity wo...

Addictions have always been associated with the drug or behavior itself, however, rats may have just shown us that this isn’t true. In traditional studies on addiction, rats were placed in isolated cages with two water bottles- one containing plain water and the other laced with a drug like...

In the age of mental health awareness, it has become ever more important to know how to rest, relax, recover, and rejuvenate. Some of the latest statistics about our lives well-being are quite staggering. Photo by Mor Shani on Unsplash Workplace stress costs the US economy a...

Thankfully, our friends and community around here had no issues. We live in a liberal blue bubble, and some days, it seems more tweens than not are playing with gender norms by selecting new names and pronouns. So Nico was no outlier. My family was also accepting — perhaps questioning (to m...

Clearly there is no sense in pursuing a life that takes for one to grow up and learn some essentials for the first 25 years, only to be toiling and moiling for the next 45, and finally be submitted to gradual deterioration, if not decomposition, of the body-mind, for the final part of it (if one is ...

Back in the early 1970’s a group of wealthy home owners from Augusta, Georgia lobbied Congress to exempt from federal taxes the income they received from renting their mansions to the players and fans during the famed golf tournament held once annually in that beautiful southern city. Some of ...