Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
Yule, an ancient winter festival, intertwines with modern holiday traditions, from the Yule Log to Christmas trees. This article delves into the origins of these rituals, tracing their evolution from pagan celebrations to contemporary customs. Discover how ancient practices influenced the way we celebrate today, and the significance behind festive symbols and acts.
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- Written by: Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, University of Sheffield
Eighty years ago this week, Judy Garland walked into an MGM studio and recorded Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas for the first time.
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- Written by: Leigh Riby, Northumbria University, Newcastle
How music heals us, even when it’s sad – by a neuroscientist leading a new study of musical therapy
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- Written by: Tim Rock and Matthew Wills, University of Bath
Life on Our Planet: evolution experts review this ‘hugely entertaining’ Netflix docuseries
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- Written by: Carol Day
Could passion be the stirring within that makes each of us who we are and guides us towards what attracts us the most? Passion energizes us for sure.
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- Written by: Boris Kester
I realize that over the years, the people I met during my travels taught me much more about life and the world than I learned at school.
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- Written by: Denis Flannery, University of Leeds
The death of Sinéad O'Connor (1966-2023), the Irish, singer-songwriter, performer, activist, actor and memoirist, was announced on July 26, 2023.
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- Written by: Susan Farrell
Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have.
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- Written by: Steve Chandler
One of the benefits of creatively planning your life is that it allows you to simplify. You can weed out, delegate, and eliminate all activities that don’t contribute to your projected goals.
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- Written by: Rev. James B. Erickson
Among humans, storytelling is universal. It is what connects us to our humanity, links us to our history, and gives us a peek at our possible futures.
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- Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery
In modernity, magic has often been dismissed, ridiculed and banished as suspect, woo-woo nonsense. It can seem that only those people who are foolish, young and crazy deal in such things.
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- Written by: George Athanasopoulos and Imre Lahdelma
I have conducted research in locations like Papua New Guinea, Japan and Greece. The truth is fieldwork is often expensive, potentially dangerous and sometimes even life-threatening.
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- Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
For the ancient Celts, there were only two seasons of the year: winter and summer. Winter began at Samhain (October 31–November 1), and summer began at Beltaine.
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- Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
This story has a little bit of America in it and a little bit of Orkney in it. Orkney is at the very northern tip of Scotland; it is a collection of seventy islands. Everyone who lives in Orkney lives close to the sea.
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- Written by: Matthew Dicks
Once you have chosen to value every minute, you can begin to create systems by which those precious minutes can be used.
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- Written by: Matthew Delmont
On a 1968 episode of “Star Trek,” Nichelle Nichols, playing Lt. Uhura, locked lips with William Shatner’s Capt. Kirk in what’s widely thought to be first kiss between a Black woman and white man on American television.
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- Written by: Natureza Gabriel Kram
In a world that often seems intent on destroying itself, I find myself curating beauty -- the kind of beauty that grabs us and shakes us out of the narcotic, dystopian alienation through which modernity slumbers and lumbers these days.
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- Written by: Natureza Gabriel Kram
In a world that often seems intent on destroying itself, I find myself curating beauty -- the kind of beauty that grabs us and shakes us out of the narcotic, dystopian alienation through which modernity slumbers and lumbers these days.
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- Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
Have you ever wondered why we have Easter eggs and bunnies? Rabbits don’t lay eggs, and yet we associate both bunnies and colorful eggs with...
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- Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
Have you ever wondered why we have Easter eggs and bunnies? Rabbits don’t lay eggs, and yet we associate both bunnies and colorful eggs with...
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- Written by: Mara Branscombe
We are naturally more intuitive, receptive, and creative during the full moon.
