Mindfulness is the practice of stopping and observing without judgment, says Wendy Whitsett, a professional counsellor. “Mindfulness allows us to be present in the moment,” she says. There are ...

“The future” has always been a vague, rather fantastical concept. Since no one actually knows what the world will be like in ten, 20, or 50 years, it can be fun and fascinating to speculate. But these ...

Even 4,000 years ago, people tested one another’s critical thinking skills with riddles and logic puzzles. This ancient civilisation, located in what is today the country of Iraq, left us with one of ...

If your dinner is around 5pm and you don’t hit the hay until 11pm or later, hunger may interfere with your sleep. You might need a small snack a couple hours after dinner to send yourself to dreamland ...

You think hearing loss is a problem for just the elderly, right? But that’s where you’d be wrong. According to the World Health Organization, 50 per cent of people aged 13 to 35 years are at risk for ...

The Stradivarius is a $3.5 million violin that was stolen from the famous concert violinist Erica Morini. The violin was made in 1727 by Antonio Stradivari and was stolen from Morini’s apartment in ...

The plural of octopus is… octopuses! No – NOT octopi. Here’s the deal: “Octopi” is how you would make the word plural in Latin; unfortunately, “octopus” is not a Latin word – it’s Greek. The Greek way ...

The Amazon rainforest is the most biodiverse region on Earth. There are thousands of tree species, most of which grow to between 24 and 30 metres tall, developing huge networks of branches that make ...

It won’t hurt as much when you say something mean about me if I say it about myself first. For decades, this had been my mantra, a type of self-defence mechanism I developed as a kid against those who ...

Even if you can pronounce them, some fancy words may make you sound pompous if you’re not comfortable with them. Others will make you sound like you’re trying too hard to seem smart, which is the ...

That odd sensation in the middle of your chest can be alarming, but often it’s just a misfire in your heart rhythm. A series of electrical impulses keep your heart pumping; when one of the impulses is ...

Modern medicine has finally caught on to a folk remedy that’s been used for centuries. Because honey fights bacteria, hospitals and clinics sometimes apply it to burns and other open wounds. For the ...