Month: June 2016

  • How Empathy Can Reduce Suspensions in the Classroom

    How Empathy Can Reduce Suspensions in the Classroom

    According to a new study, considering students’ perspectives cuts suspension rates in half and improves student-teacher relationships In U.S. schools, disciplining with punishment is the norm. School suspension rates have nearly tripled in the last 30 years, with 11 percent of students suspended at some point in their school career. This happens even when the […]

  • 10 Things Creative People Do (and make them happier)

    10 Things Creative People Do (and make them happier)

    Have you ever wondered why some people are more creative than others? Did you ever wish you had more of that particular gene? The good news is that research shows that happiness and creativity are not only related, they can be developed. Here are 10 ways to jumpstart your creativity, starting right now: Listen in: […]

  • Top 5 Meditation Apps for Pampering Your Mind, Body and Soul

    Top 5 Meditation Apps for Pampering Your Mind, Body and Soul

    How many times a day we feel like running away from the relentless modern life? How about those noisy recurrent thoughts that won’t let us focus on work or even reading our favorite book? It has become a common issue in the modern Era to find ourselves stressed, tense, agitated and angry. Lucky for us, […]

  • A lesson that could help build peace

    A lesson that could help build peace

    Next week, Neal Keny-Guyer, Chief Executive Officer for the Mercy Corps since 1994, will join leaders from governments, the United Nations, business and civil society in Istanbul for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit. The aim is to make the humanitarian system fit-for-purpose in a world where crises hit with increasing frequency, intensity and complexity, and […]

  • The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

    The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

    Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness In these pages you will hear from Steven Pinker, who asks, “Why is there peace?”; Robert Sapolsky, who examines violence among primates; Paul Ekman, who talks with the Dalai Lama about global compassion; Daniel Goleman, who proposes “constructive anger”; and […]

  • The perks of giving: how spending money on others can lower blood pressure

    The perks of giving: how spending money on others can lower blood pressure

    According to a new study, “prosocial spending” may be as good for blood pressure as a healthy diet and exercise A lot of people believe that the way to become happier and healthier is by spending money on one’s self. Putting in extra hours at work and saving up money to be able to buy […]

  • 10 Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change

    10 Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change

    Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927) was a Swedish scientist and probably the first person to ever mention climate change due to energy use in human activity, when he proposed a relation between atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and temperature. Several decades later, Al Gore made an impact in collective culture with “An Inconvenient Truth”, a Documentary in which […]

  • Charles Duhigg: “Productivity emerges when people push themselves to think differently”

    Charles Duhigg: “Productivity emerges when people push themselves to think differently”

    A Pullitzer price winner assets on how being more productive without sacrificing happiness When Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Charles Duhigg talks about productivity, he’s not just talking about efficiency and profits and time management. To him, what it means to be productive is bound up with the idea of happiness. Productivity is figuring out “the best […]

  • Why running and Yoga make the perfect work-out routine

    Why running and Yoga make the perfect work-out routine

    Consciousness about practicing sports and working out has spread like wildfire among modern society in the last few decades. People are choosing to add some sort of exercise activity to their daily routine, along with healthy eating habits, making significant changes to their lifestyle. There are plenty of activities that can keep us healthy, strong […]

  • How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative

    How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative

    We are spending more time indoors and online. But recent studies suggest that nature can help our brains and bodies to stay healthy Scientists are beginning to find evidence that being in nature has a profound impact on our brains and our behavior, helping us to reduce anxiety, brooding, and stress, and increase our attention […]