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A 'Welcome' Change 

A 'Welcome' Change 
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A “crash” course on prevention

13.02.2025 10

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Dogged determination defeats death

Despite some tough sledding for the truth, the inspirational story of the Great Alaskan Serum Race holds powerful lessons for our times.

06.02.2025 9

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... And Ever

In all my years of preaching, I’ve only fallen apart in the pulpit once.

30.01.2025 7

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A pattern of concealment

The attraction of camouflage is, ironically, easy to spot.

23.01.2025 10

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Lemon aid

Now that everything’s in place, the elephants never forget.

16.01.2025 10

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2025: It's about time 

It’s one of life’s truisms that, if you don’t manage your time, it will manage you. Like money, time is a wonderful servant, but a terrible...

09.01.2025 10

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A resolution to resolutions

For most of us, New Year’s resolutions aren’t a make-or-break proposition. They’re a make-and-break one. Still, they have both psychological and...

02.01.2025 4

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Christmas piñatas: The carrot and the stick

In many cultures, piñatas are closely tied to Christmas because their origin is anything but kid’s stuff. It all started in China where...

19.12.2024 8

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A Christmas Tree-tise

Every December, amid the argument over tradition vs. innovation, the fir flies. Literally. Helicopter harvesting is a big part of how the Christmas...

12.12.2024 6

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Shattering the expected response

A little boy’s visit to an Israeli museum was meant to be educational, but it taught him a lesson nobody expected — one we can all learn from. The...

05.12.2024 3

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The ant-ithesis of love

The undead won’t be our undoing. Yet, from classic literature to the latest pop culture, zombies are a fixture: someone or something takes over...

28.11.2024 8

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A high calibre solution

Nobody knows for sure if it’s a colossal coincidence or a hoary hoax, but the story of the patient bullet continues to fascinate. As the story...

20.11.2024 5

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Trading it all for a new life

In Britain during the early 1820s, the Caribbean paradise of Poyais was a shimmering magnet that drew the wealthy and the would-be to a life of...

10.10.2024 4

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Addressing a bottleneck issue

In recent years, one of Portugal’s most important industries has been quick to toast big gains. But climate change is threatening to stop up future...

26.09.2024 2

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Patience: When and how to wait

“Lord, please give me patience — and give it to me yesterday.” That pretty much sums up my struggle with the most elusive of virtues. But...

19.09.2024 3

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Ego and 'arch' enemies

It’s quite literally a sign of a towering ego. In the impoverished former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan, the country’s leader built a $12 million...

12.09.2024 2

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Fail to succeed

Say that headline out loud and it can be taken two ways. The first is easy because we all fail to succeed in so many areas of our lives — in our...

05.09.2024 7

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A (photo) graphic dilemma

Experts who study accidental death are getting a whole new picture of sudden mortality. One calls the phenomenon “Death By Selfie”. You won’t find...

29.08.2024 2

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Time and perception deception

There’s a fine line between being in a rut, and being in the groove. And that difference can drastically affect the way we perceive time. According...

22.08.2024 2

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California Dreamin': A connection inspection

Skeptics tried to tamp down championship expectations, but the Riverside Cubs in California wouldn’t hear it. They couldn’t. All the players and...

15.08.2024 2

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'Amen' is a beginning, not the end

When it seems the world doesn’t have a prayer when it comes to practising love, we can learn from The Amen Effect. That’s the name of a principle —...

01.08.2024 1

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Some final thoughts

What people focus on while they’re dying can give us big insight into what we should focus on while we’re living. According to Pulitzer-Prize...

25.07.2024 2

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