Running Through Museums … And Life

Museums are supposed be a calm and peaceful place where great works of art are displayed for the public to enjoy. But most people visit museums with a ...

More than Rest: Breaks Help Us Focus

Many people often think that taking a break will derail the momentum of your work but the research says otherwise. An article in the Harvard Business ...

Five Unhelpful Ways to Study/Read the Bible

Here are some common unhelpful ways to read and study God's Word:

• The Xanax Approach. Feel anxious? Read Philippians 4:6. Feel tired? Read Matthew 11:28. The Xanax Approach treats the Bible as if it exists to make us feel better. Bible study is about finding comfort for my issues. The problem with this approach is that I ask how the Bible can serve me, rather than how I can serve the God it proclaims.
  

Study: People Prefer Electrocution to Quiet Time

We all crave a "little peace and quiet," from time to time, but a study sheds (ahem) shocking light on how hard it actually is for us to deal ...

The Lost Treasure of 'Purposeless Walking'

A BBC article bemoans the death of "purposeless walking," that ambulatory habit of thinkers and creatives since time immemorial. In wheel-transit ...

Your Brain Has 500 Trillion Connections

Your body, including your brain, is fearfully and wonderfully made. In the book Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am? science writer Joshua Foer explains to ...

Subconscious Triggers Shape Our Behavior

Most of us would like to assume that we're the masters of our own thoughts. But marketing professor Jonah Berger argues that we're influenced ...

The Man behind the Designated Driver Campaign

In the 1980s, Jay Winsten, a professor at Harvard, had learned about a program in Scandinavian countries called the "designated driver." At ...

Premier Hitter Ichiro Suzuki Protects His Baseball Bats

Japanese-born big-leaguer Ichiro Suzuki is one of the best hitters in baseball. Prior to 2012, he led the Major Leagues in regular season hits on seven ...

Puzzle Shows Our Need to Slow Down and Pay Attention

In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman uses a simple puzzle to show the importance of slowing down and ...