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Published on Thursday, 08 January 2009 07:46 | | 
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Short daylight hours, long dark cold nights, rain and snow storms and icy roads, can all add up to making us feel abit down.
However, for many people, lack of sunlight can actually trigger more serious symptoms of depression. Researchers have documented higher than average suicide rates in places with increased light deprivation, such as
Published on Wednesday, 07 January 2009 08:16 | | |
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...there is a field - I will meet you there.' These words of poet Jalaluddin Rumi inspired fim-maker Peter Bisanz to put together a documentary on the positive role of religion in the world.
It embraces figures as diverse as Noam Chomsky, Peter Gabriel, Karen Armstrong, the Dalai Lama, Robert Thurman, Deepak Chopra, Paolo Coelho, Ela Gandhi, Desmond Tutu - and many more.
Find out what it's all about HERE.
Published on Friday, 09 January 2009 19:00 | |
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I’m a male in my mid-twenties. For years now I’ve struggled to maintain relationships – usually because I end up sabotaging them.
I think it’s because deep down I don’t believe that anyone can really care about me. Recently I’ve come to the conclusion that this probably has something to do with being sexually abused by an older relative when I was nine. I don’t know if I should or could go for help. I think I’d feel uncomfortable talking about it with anyone.
Published on Wednesday, 07 January 2009 19:00 | | |
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Here is Part 4. Please see Part 1 for more information and links to related research in a similar area to the one described here.
Published on Sunday, 04 January 2009 19:00 | |
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Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science, reports Vida Adamoli.
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
Published on Friday, 02 January 2009 19:00 | |
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Woodland therapy is providing a multitude of psychological, emotional and physical benefits for deprived and disturbed adolescents.
Published on Saturday, 03 January 2009 19:00 | | |
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My New Year’s resolutions are to learn German, install solar panels and give up scented candles but Johann Hari has been far more altruistic and determined to give up drinking bottled water and Coca-Cola, writes Julia Stephenson
He insists that bottled water manufacturers have brainwashed us into buying the stuff that comes out of our taps for free and blasts bottled Fiji water, which despite being advertised `as coming from one of the last pristine ecosystems on earth’ helps destroy the very environment it comes from, while ironically a third of Fijians have no access to clean water themselves. As for the Coca-Cola…the company is responsible for horrific human rights and environmental abuses around the world. There’s never been a better time to install water filter at home...