What were you doing when you were 14? Hanging out at the 7-11 and drinking Slushies in the parking lot? Poking around in the local mall? Well, as reminder of how much you wasted your teenage years, 14-year-old student Jordan Casey has just launched his third company, Eventzy. During a talk last week at the Web Summit in Dublin, Casey said the company is in beta but will open to […]
Emma Fay, 27, from Leicester, began performing her elaborate trick after running a hair and beauty salon She spends up to six hours working up each creation with water-based paint and two very patient contortionists The art painted on the women’s white leotards include a zebra, mandrill, seahorse, giraffe, dragonfly and spider There’s a graceful giraffe, a brightly coloured dragonfly and a spider that’s far from itsy bitsy. At first […]
Overthinking is an epidemic. Like a plague, it takes hold of its victims and eats away at them from the inside out. It clouds their minds, judgment and destroys any semblance of happiness their already overworked minds could muster. It rots away at their brain and keeps them in a perpetual state of paralysis. Stripped down to its most basic strain, it occupies their thoughts with only one […]
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Leonard Huxley 1. Understand YOU Determine The Direction YOUR Life Takes We are a long way from understanding the complexity and impact the mind has on our life. Our thoughts may well influence who comes into our lives and the timing. Events that change our lives may not be […]
London: Researchers have found biological evidence in the brains of men and women that may explain the olfactory difference between genders. The team discovered that women have on an average 43 percent more cells than men in a brain structure known as the olfactory bulb, which is the first brain region to receive olfactory information captured by the nostrils. Sex differences in olfactory detection may play a role in differentiated […]
Marriage really is a beautiful thing. I used to think it was a bit pointless, just a piece of paper that allows you an extra tax cut. However, the more I thought about it, the more I learned to appreciate what marriage could be. Marriage gets a bad rap because most people are really bad at it. It’s not marriage’s fault. It’s the couples’ fault for being neither […]
Washington: In a blunt assessment of terrorist safe havens in Pakistan, the Pentagon has told the US Congress that the country is using militant groups as proxies to counter the superior Indian military. “Afghan and Indian focused militants continue to operate from Pakistan territory to the detriment of Afghan and regional stability. Pakistan uses these proxy forces to hedge against the loss of influence in Afghanistan and to counter India’s […]
NEW YORK: Thirteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attack, the resurrected World Trade Center is again opening for business, marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the United States as a whole. Publishing giant Conde Nast will start moving on Monday into One World Trade Center, a 104-story, $3.9 billion skyscraper that dominates the Manhattan skyline. It is America’s tallest building. It’s the centerpiece of the 16-acre site […]
BAGHDAD – A car bomb targeting Shi’ite pilgrims killed 12 people in Baghdad on Sunday, police and hospital sources said. Iraq is bracing for more sectarian attacks on Shi’ites, who are preparing for the religious festival of Ashura, an event that defines Shi’ism and its rift with Sunni Islam. At mosques and shrines across Iraq, millions of Shi’ites are expected to commemorate the slaying of Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Hussein at […]
Instead of strengthening your bones, drinking more than three glasses of milk a day may increase the risk of early death, a study has found. This could be due to the high levels of lactose and galactose (types of sugar) in milk, that have been shown to increase oxidative stress and chronic inflammation in animal studies, the researchers said. Doctors and nutritionists have long recommended a diet rich in milk […]
