Dr Gemma Beckley is a director and teacher with The Meditation Trust, a British charity working to make Transcendental Meditation
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‘Transcendental Meditation Is for Everyone, Not Just Celebrities’
Dr Gemma Beckley is a director and teacher with The Meditation Trust, a British charity working to make Transcendental Meditation (TM) — which originated in India and gained fame in
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A Chinese ‘Dystopia’ The UN Ignores
By William J. Furney The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in Xinjiang. Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other
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Is Air Travel About to Experience a Revolutionary Boom?
By William J. Furney It’s all about speed and today’s crop of jetliners just don’t measure up. So says new US aviation firm Boom Supersonic. The Denver-based company’s mission is
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The Joy of Running
By William J. Furney I became famous in and around my village in Ireland in recent years for running along its scenic country roads; people stopped me in shops and
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Introduce Beefy Meat Tax to Prevent Another Pandemic
By William J. Furney The pandemic we’re still embroiled in, more than a year on, is this century’s “Chernobyl moment”, says a report into the global health catastrophe published this
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Stella Anna Sonnenbaum: Society Is Shifting Away from Heteronormativity
By William J. Furney The past year has been tumultuous in every aspect of our lives — including between the sheets. Faced with long and dreary lockdown hours together when
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Earth Needs Our Attention for a Year or Decade, Not an Hour or Day
By William J. Furney We had an hour, in March and then, this week, a day. To save an imperiled planet that so far is our only home in the
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For Gun-Weary Americans, Time for Constitutional Change
By William J. Furney The supposedly most powerful nation on the planet cannot stop its people from being killed en masse by rifles, pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns and a
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Melding Man and Machine: Why Typing with Your Brain Could Be the Next Big Thing
By William J. Furney Using fingers and thumbs to bash out messages on our phones may soon seem archaic and even, one day, primitive, if spaceman Elon Musk gets his
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Preparing for the Next Pandemic but Not Prepared to Ditch Meat
By William J. Furney Almost everyone agrees it’s a case of when, not if, another catastrophic pandemic will erupt, killing millions more and bringing the world to a shuddering halt
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