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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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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The Attention Epidemic
By William J. Furney The people at my gym can’t go without mental stimulation and rewards for a second, and their sweaty workouts — there’s no aircon, only a window
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Steve Lamoreaux: Colonize the Moon Before Romantic Notion of Mars
By William J. Furney It’s not just a big world out there, but an enormous, gargantuan universe that’s so impossibly large — and growing — that it’s barely possible for
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‘Lockdown Is Working, But There’s a Huge Cost’: Immunology Expert
By William J. Furney The latest in a family of coronaviruses to afflict humankind has plunged the world into deep crisis and lingering uncertainty of a kind not seen in
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Time to Calm Down
By William J. Furney Suddenly, “super-busy” people (or people who like to tell us they are) everywhere have little or nothing to do, and they can’t cope, with the lack
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‘FGM Is About Control of Female Sexuality, But Some Girls Seek It’
By William J. Furney It’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, yet the barbaric and sometimes fatal ritual is still being performed on around 3 million girls
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‘Constant Aggression, Repression by Spain Is Helping Catalonian Independence’
By William J. Furney Mike Eastabrook is a UK-based vice president of the advocacy group Foreign Friends of Catalonia, which seeks to counter what he calls “the crude repression of
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Blockchain (But Hadn’t a Clue What — or Who — to Ask)
By William J. Furney Blockchain seems to be everywhere. Almost every time you read a news article, the peculiar term is right there, staring you in the eyes and imploring
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Hunger-Striking American in Egyptian Jail Is ‘Distraught and Losing Hope’: Lawyer
By William J. Furney Mustafa Kassem is a taxi driver in New York who was visiting his wife and young son and daughter in Cairo, Egypt, in the summer of
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