The next time you have a check-up, don’t be surprised if your doctor hands you a prescription to walk. Yes, this simple activity that you’ve been doing since you were about a year old is now being touted as “the closest thing we have to a wonder drug,” in the words of Dr. Thomas Frieden, former director of… Read More »
Noah, the hero of the biblical Flood story in the Old Testament book of Genesis, the originator of vineyard cultivation, and, as the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the representative head of a Semitic genealogical line. A synthesis of at least three biblical source traditions, Noah is the image of the righteous man made party to a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, in which nature’s future… Read More »
Key Benefits of Why “Night Owls” Sleep Late Are You A Late-Night Sleeper? Here’s why? Is your favourite time usually when you stay up into the late hours? You’re probably also not an early morning riser. Like many others, you’re just someone who prefers to sleep later. “You’re likely what we call a night owl,” says sleep scientist… Read More »
Studies over the past year agree: Nobody shouldered the burden of the pandemic like working moms. In addition to performing 72.6% more unpaid childcare in the home than men, women’s jobs have been 1.8x more vulnerable than men’s jobs in the COVID-19 pandemic. Which means any company (rightfully) concerned about burnout among working mothers should take action — and with Mother’s Day around the corner, employee reward… Read More »
Swedenborg describes creation as made up of two separate and yet coexisting “worlds”: the natural world and the spiritual world. The natural world includes everything you see around you—the grass, the sky, houses, other people, your own body, and so on. The spiritual world consists of the unseen realities that we do not fully encounter until after death: heaven,… Read More »
Ishq-e Majāzi Ishq-e Majāzi (Persian: عشق مجازی) literally means “metaphorical love”. It refers to the love for God’s creation i.e. love of a man for a woman or another man and vice versa. It is said to be generated by beloved person’s external beauty but since it is connected to lust, it is against the law and considered unlawful. Hence, in Faqr, the… Read More »
This diagram shows the positive and negative parts of a water molecule. It also depicts how a charge, such as on an ion (Na or Cl, for example) can interact with a water molecule. At the molecular level, salt dissolves in water due to electrical charges and due to the fact that both water and salt compounds are… Read More »
At times, we ignore simple symptoms thinking that they might get alright in the near future or just by taking some rest. When you experience a sudden or severe onset of some symptoms, it’s important to be seen and treated without further delay. Look for an emergency room near you to get these problems treated. If you’re living… Read More »
Rarely can one find a closer bond between two persons such as existed between Muhammad the son of Abdullah and Abu Sufyan the son of al-Harith. (This Abu Sufyan of course was not the same as Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, the powerful Quraysh chieftain.) Abu Sufyan ibn al-Harith was born about the same time as the blessed Prophet.… Read More »
In a forgotten corner of the city, at the end of a nondescript back alley, was a small health food shop. It had been there more than forty years and was once popular. Now, a dwindling number of faithful regulars still dropped in for their traditional arthritis remedies, but it was no longer enough to pay the rent.… Read More »