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: Kara Gavin
Older adults who get hearing aids for a newly diagnosed hearing loss have a lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia, depression, or anxiety for the first time over the next three years.
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- Written by: Michele Berger
|Giving advice may actually benefit the advice-giver, according to new research.
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- Written by: Roberta Maisel
What is it about saying, flat out, 'I love you' to our children that has been shunned by many and may still constitute a taboo among middle-aged parents today? Novels, movies, indeed most cultures invest 'I love you' with strong erotic content. The deep, romantic, feeling-tone of the phrase reinforces the taboo...
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- Written by: Ashok Bedi, M.D. & Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
Of course, your ancestors can and do leave behavioral and attitudinal legacies that help you actualize your innate potentials. Mingled with ancestral legacies we discover blessings as well as curses. You can take a major step toward maturing when you can see and accept both the good and the bad in other...
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- Written by: Carrie Macmillan
Though it’s not easy, it is possible to change the poor sleep habits of children in preschool and elementary school, experts say.
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- Written by: Shubhra Krishan
I have a policy: On Sundays, I don't allow myself to come within five hundred yards of the computer; the phone goes on voice mail; and the cell phone gets to snooze in my purse all day. My friends know how I am about Sundays, and they respect my need for solitude. This soothing Sunday routine means a lot to me...
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- Written by: Mirtha Vega
In today's changing times, we are looking for a better way to be ourselves, not someone we were raised to be. In this time of intense self-discovery, all others serve as our mirrors.
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- Written by: Erica Zippert and Bethany Rittle-Johnson
If you’re a parent of a preschooler, you might be wondering how you can help set your child up for success once they enter kindergarten.
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- Written by: Debrena Jackson Gandy
I teach, speak, and write about joy, peace, power, ease, and grace because I am learning to bring them more fully into my own life, not because I have mastered them. And to the degree that I have been able to make them a reality in my life, part of my life's work is helping others make...
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
In the film Being John Malkovich, an unhappy guy named Craig discovers a portal into movie star John Malkovich's mind, through which he can live vicariously for fifteen minutes. Soon there is a long line of people paying $200 to enter the portal and be someone else.
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- Written by: Liz Entman
When making food choices when we’re with friends, we tend to want to match characteristics that others can measure or rank, such as size or price, but feel free to go our own way on things like flavor or shape, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Cailin Riley
Kids are less likely to have concentration problems and behavioral issues if their parents make a greater effort to engage with their schooling earlier in the year, according to new research.
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- Written by: Kylie Baldwin
The numbers of women undergoing elective egg freezing across the Western world has increased rapidly over the past few years.
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- Written by: Aimée La Fountain
Breakups happen to friends, too. Here’s how to find closure, while preserving your heart and dignity.
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- Written by: Raven Digitalis
Empathy is everywhere. In many ways, empathy is the social glue that holds everybody together. Empathy is a social experience that involves feeling external emotional energy to the point of mirroring an emotion and taking it into one’s own experience.
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- Written by: Kindel Turner Nash
Because I conduct research about reading, parents often ask me the same question: “What can I do to help my child become a better reader?”
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- Written by: Daniel Hamlin
Schools across the country encourage parents to help their children with homework.
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- Written by: Maryam Mafi
The universality of a good story serves to demonstrate that we’re not so different from our counterparts across the globe, which in turn prompts us to empathize with the “other” to the extent that we will eventually feel as the “other”; thus, respect and empathy are the inevitable by-products of this process.
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- Written by: Kristen Parker
Teen girls experience relationship abuse at alarming rates, according to a new study that specifically focuses on reproductive coercion—pressure from a partner to get pregnant.
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- Written by: Judy Illes and Farhad R. Udwadia
Sex robots made headlines after American comedian Whitney Cummings brought out her very own lookalike robot for her Netflix special called Can I Touch It? RealBotix
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- Written by: Diana Lucia and Karen Moritz
It is well established that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can have detrimental effects on the developing foetus.
