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by Maddalena Di Gregorio
Is There A More Energetic, Happier, Healthier You Waiting To Be Awakened?
Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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Long Term Food Security For Urban Areas
It’s truly delightful to see gardening traditions continued, whether on a small or large scale. These practices help us understand the importance of living close to the earth and do our part in creating a more sustainable future.
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Use It Or Lose It – Words Have Power
The structures that exist in our languages profoundly shape how we construct our reality. Language shapes how we understand, space, time, and causality.
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Have We Forgotten How To Laugh At Ourselves?
Without shock, subversion, and a little bit of transgression comedy cannot fulfill its important social function. Laughter is revelatory and can awaken our awareness of injustices, as well as open our eyes to what is wrong in our world and needs fixing. Laughing unites people.
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Facial Recognition – Friend or Foe?
Corporate surveillance, data mining, and profiling, GPS tracking, and wireless tracking have enhanced surveillance to new dizzying heights, never known before. Facial Recognition technology promises benefits at a cost. How much privacy are you willing to compromise?
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From Fiber to Feel: The Art of Choosing Timeless Textiles
Fabric is one of the most important components in our daily lives. From the clothes, we wear to the upholstery of our home furniture and cars, to our bed linen. As a consumer, you owe it to yourself to know the difference between valued fabrics and cheap fabrics. because the…
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The Evolution Of The Seductive Shoe
When and why did shoes go from being a necessity to becoming a fashion statement, objects of sexual attraction and indicators of societal status? Read more in this engaging and entertaining post.
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The Boots Still Fit, the World Does Not
I once walked an entire winter in boots filled with icy water, afraid to tell my mother they’d soaked through. That moment of silence, stitched with fear and thrift, stayed with me—through punk years, cowboy boot phases, and Milanese thigh-high obsessions. Looking back now, my wardrobe tells the story of…
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The Rise And Fall Of An Empire
The world was left speechless, when Kodak ended up filing for bankruptcy in 2012, leaving its legacy business and selling off all its patents. It was the fall of a giant and it reverberated throughout the business world.
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THE MOST RELIABLE TREATMENT FOR SLEEP APNEA
Sleep Apnea can play havoc on the quality of one’s life and their partner’s life. The collateral effects of continued disruptive sleep patterns can also lead to other medical complications. Nowadays, thanks to the use of CPAP machines, living with sleep apnea no longer needs to be a challenge or…
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The Rare Magic Of Colmar
The moment I stepped into the historic center of Colmar I thought I had just gone down the proverbial rabbit hole and landed in a fairytale town, where the buildings, set along the banks of the Ill River, are made of chocolate and cake, slathered in creamy colored frosting, set…
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Words And Ideas Can Change The World
The internet may have set to pasture the rules of grammar and punctuation for our texting purposes, however never before has it been so important to observe the way we use words.
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Ten Things You Can Do To Help If A Loved One Is A Hoarder
The detrimental effects of hoarding on the quality of life are overwhelming and devastating. Studies indicate that hoarding affects over 6% of the population in the USA. That is a whopping 19 million Americans. These are reportedly conservative estimates.
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Astrology A Tool For Self Evolution
Astrology has been with us for almost 2500 years, dating back to Babylonia. It has been used as a divinatory tool, by educated and powerful men and women, for centuries, including Theodore Roosevelt, Einstein and Carl Jung.
To this day Astrology has maintained its fascination and is considered a…
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A Relaxed Italian Getaway: Balancing Sightseeing and Seaside Serenity
I’ve been living in Italy for two decades now, and on my first trip to Italy from Canada, I assumed that given the land mass of Italy compared to Canada, I’d be able to see a good deal in three weeks. And I did, but nowhere as much as I…
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Puglia is More Than a Destination: It’s a Feast for the Senses
Puglia is more than a destination, it offers a rejuvenating natural experience that delivers rich emotions, captivates your heart, and ignites all of your senses.
This enchanted land of sun and hospitality, hugged by two spellbinding seas, is a fertile terrain where centuries-old history, customs, breathtaking vistas, and joie de…
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A Taste of Heaven: Val d’Orcia and Pienza
Val d’Orcia and Pienza are a true testament to the beauty and grandeur of Tuscany, offering an idyllic mix of stunning natural landscapes, magnificent architecture, delicious food, and rich traditions. The sheer beauty of the rolling hills, charming small towns, and impressive monuments is unparalleled, and the region’s cultural and…
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Don’t Rush Your Trip: A European Travel Itinerary for the Mindful Explorer
Are you planning a trip to Europe? Make sure you don’t underestimate the distances and time required to move from one location to another. Don’t turn your vacation into a race as you tick locations off your bucket list, because that would be a real shame.
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What’s Behind A Name and Should You Change Yours?
Our names are like labels or captions that enable people to make quick assertions, and assumptions about us. Some names are a burden, while others are intimidating and some names are forbidden in certain countries. One could say without a doubt that names have a certain power over our lives.
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Guilty Pleasures: Why the Forbidden Feels So Good
Affairs of the heart—and their inevitable betrayals—are endlessly compelling because they reflect the messy, contradictory nature of human desire.
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The Day the World Stopped: Imagining a Future Without The Internet of Things
The world is in a constant state of flux, and the things that we hold dear today may be forgotten and abandoned tomorrow. This is particularly true in the realm of technology, where advancements are made at an astonishing pace, and the latest innovation can quickly become outdated and obsolete…
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The Business of Aging
The world’s most lucrative consumers are aging, and a marketplace, already flooded with anti-aging solutions and magic potions, is finding new angles and creating new trends, for aging women.There’s a visceral reaction to women aging, whether they opt to intervene with surgery or not. It’s catch-22, you’re dammed if you…
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The Decline of American Action Cinema
In pursuit of creating visually striking spectacles, contemporary action films often showcase an astounding magnitude and variety of weapons. From high-powered firearms to explosive ordnance, the arsenal takes center stage, becoming a promotional tool in itself. This relentless display of firepower can desensitize audiences to the true implications of…
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From Housewives to Heroes: The Evolution of Female TV Characters
The 1960s marked a significant period of change for women with TV playing a vital role. The small screen brought a new kind of entertainment that allowed young girls to explore their wilder nature, but only through the lens of magic and fantasy.TV studios recognized the need for a narrative…
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The Cashless Economy Dilemma: Trust, Privacy, and Progress
In an age where every tap and click streamlines our daily lives, the concept of a cashless economy appears inevitable. Yet, beneath the surface of convenience lies a complex debate, with advocates touting efficiency and opponents raising concerns about privacy, security, and control.
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From the Battlefield to the Runway: The Unexpected Evolution of Boots as a Fashion Staple
Historically, boots were primarily seen as practical footwear worn for protection from the elements and rough terrain. They were commonly worn by soldiers, workers, and outdoorsmen, but were not seen as fashionable.
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Unforgettable and Unmatched: Why ‘Reservoir Dogs’ is Tarantino’s Tour De Force
Reservoir Dogs lives in a class of its own and fetches the bone as Tarantino’s finest work.Its audacious storytelling, memorable characters, razor-sharp dialogue, and uncompromising vision make it the quintessential Tarantino film.
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The Evolution of Fabric: When Technology and Textile Dance Together
Fashion and technology have been converging in some truly groundbreaking ways. With the rise of 3D printing and the emergence of smart fabrics, designers and brands are pushing the boundaries, creating everything from fantastical, otherworldly designs that seem to defy gravity, to a range of features, from moisture-wicking, and temperature…
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From Kitchen Catastrophes to Culinary Conquests: A Guide to Healthy Cooking from Scratch
You can’t develop healthy eating habits if you don’t enjoy preparing your own meals from scratch. If you don’t enjoy, slicing, dicing, chopping, shaving, and grating there’s little hope, I’m sorry to say.
What it comes down to is the source of food you ingest. The less it’s been fiddled…
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From Incestuous Relationships to Strategic Alliances: The Evolution of The Rich and Powerful
In a time long ago, the halls of power were filled with whispered rumors of secret marriages and scandalous affairs between family members. The rich and powerful were known to keep their bloodlines pure by marrying within their own kin, all in the name of maintaining their grip on power.Times…
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The Plastic Revolution: A History of Convenience and Consequences
Realistically speaking, if humanity is to persist very far into the twenty-first century, we will need the help of sophisticated genetic engineering to deal with the huge piles of plastic trash we keep producing and to avoid regressing to primitive hunter-gatherer societies.
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Why Sleep Is More Important Than Food
Humans can go up to three weeks without food whereas we can only manage, give or take, one week without sleep. The collateral effects of sleep deprivation can literally destroy us, slowly crippling us, sucking the joy out of life.
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Can You Trust Your Intuition?
You have no idea how many times you’ve averted danger, simply by listening to your inner voice. When you chose to take an alternate route, leave early or later, or maybe cancel the appointment altogether because you were feeling uneasy about a situation. You might even twist an ankle or…
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Plunging or Paddling: Understanding the Risks and Rewards of Falling in Love
We have grown accustomed to the idea of “falling” in love, a phrase that implies both enchantment and trepidation. But as we navigate the mysterious waters of romance, perhaps it’s time to reconsider the metaphor we’ve grown accustomed to—falling in love. After all, when was the last time you intentionally…
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Imagining life unplugged
. Screens off, world on. Without constant connectivity, the moments that matter get room to
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The Pocket Portal
These days, I pick up my phone and just look at it — almost as though I expect something to happen, like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. The device has become the portal, the gateway. We look to it for salvation, for forgiveness, for love, for…
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Speak Kindly Now — The Future Is Listening
One sentence can ignite a firestorm or build a bridge. In an age of instant reactions, here’s why our words matter more than ever — and how we can use them to connect instead of divide.
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The Longterm Implications of AI: A Philosophical Inquiry
The implications of AI-generated images and deepfakes are vast and complex, even scary, posing ethical, social, and legal challenges that demand careful consideration.
While these technologies have the potential to revolutionize art, entertainment, and communication, they also raise critical questions about truth, trust, and the nature of reality itself.…
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1957: The Year That Shaped the Future
Share what you know about the year you were born. The year I was born there were notable inventions which included the Fortran programming language, the birth control pill, and the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, successfully launched by the Soviet Union, and the beginning of a space race with…
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