Five Unsexy Steps to Healthy Living Today

Healthy living isn’t flashy or exciting. If you want to improve your life now, start with these five (unsexy) steps to improve your health.

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Are Tweens Driving Another LOL Stake into the Coffin of the English Language?

Tweens are killing the English language with poor grammar skills learned while texting, according to a new study. Is this the end? Hardly.

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Yoga Lessons From the Fire Pit — Tony Robbins Fire Walk

Almost two dozen people were injured recently while fire walking at a Tony Robbins seminar at the San Jose Convention Center, with many of those hurt suffering second- or third-degree burns. An article in the New York Times about the incident is likely to ignite the same kind of knee-jerk reaction that happened after William Broad’s piece on the dangers of yoga (“How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” NYT 5 January 2012). If you are a proponent of fire walking—and clearly many of the seminar participants quoted in the New York Times are—then circling the wagons to protect the reputation of a man who...

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Quick Tip for Healthy Living: Eat More Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

Eating more fresh fruits and vegetables is one of the easiest ways to improve your health. These five tips will help you get started.

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How to Create Content That’s Compelling–Storytelling for the Web and Beyond

There are many ways to create content that’s compelling, but storytelling can help you educate, inform, and entertain your audience at the same time. The last time I brought a friend home to meet my father, he charged across the living room at her. Caught completely by surprise, she almost fell off the arm of the chair where she was perched alongside his somewhat erratic filing system. We had been talking about gardening, or house renovations—something innocuous like that—when there was a lull in the conversation. My father, slumped in a musty chair tucked beneath several towering...

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