The Dalai Lama often recommends a particular form of Buddhist meditation called 'analytic meditation'. In this type of meditation, he said, one needs meditate on the information accumulated by the mind from various sources and use reasoning to decode and decrypt it.
Katina Mercadante captures a day in the life of five children from different countries and faiths as they prepare to attend religious services with their families. This short film allows us to see the many threads that stitch us together.
Sometimes the brightest ideas come in young packages. Teenagers from around the world demonstrate you don’t need a high school diploma to come up with a life-changing invention.
This study shows that female inmates who meditate twice a day have less trauma symptoms and are less likely to recidivate.
Humans are a part of nature in every moment, in every place, and recognizing this puts a different lens on how you interact with the world’s ecological and social communities.
Older people who followed a Mediterranean diet retained more brain volume over a three-year period than those who did not follow the diet as closely, new research shows.
As lifespans continue to get longer it's becoming more important than ever to understand how humanity will maintain its mental capabilities in old age.
Vera Rubin, one of the most important astronomers of the 20th century, died on December 25th at age 88. She played a seminal role in our understanding of dark matter, and should have been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, but never was.
Older people who help and support others live longer, a new study has concluded. The results of these findings show that this kind of caregiving can have a positive effect on the mortality of the carers.
UAE Minister of Tolerance H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi says everyone including diplomats, clergymen and ministers have been consulted with to set up a program to promote tolerance.
Meditation, long considered to be a ”frou-frou” thing only hippies and Buddhists bothered with, has now become a worldwide relaxation and health trend.
Runners' brains appear to have greater functional connectivity than non-runners' brains, according to new research.
Younger adults are more likely than older adults to think organic foods are better for their health and to believe GM foods are worse.
Inscape has infused a modern delivery of a traditional practice to facilitate meditation in a new way, one that's relevant to 21st-century lifestyles.
Seattle teens are working to design and build safe transitional housing for homeless.
