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Little girls grow up hearing both implicit and explicit messages suggesting that the most important attribute they can strive for is beauty. A media c

Dara has been teaching yoga and wellness in Columbia since 1999. In May 2013, she brought the first of its kind adaptive yoga class to the Midlands fo

The two diseases most likely to afflict us as we age – cancer and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s – may both have an Achilles’

Doctors had given Anita Moorjani just hours to live when she arrived at the hospital in a coma on the morning of February 2nd, 2006. Unable to move as

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-polarit… Water is both essential and unique. Many of its particular qualities stem from the fact

Eli talks about autism and theory of mind.

Canadian physician Gabor Maté is a specialist in terminal illnesses, chemical dependents, and HIV positive patients. Dr. Maté is a renowned author of

High heels: the modern foot binding practice? A medical and social point of view.

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Before he turned 30, Hiro Fujita lived in New Jersey, Hawaii, Zurich, London, and Tokyo, was an all-star athlete and an advertising professional who “

We often define ourselves by things that are “outside” us: relationships, work, family — even our own bodies. But what would it mean to ha