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Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Loving-kindness, the feeling cultivated in metta meditation, is very different from romantic love. Anna Sunderland Engels

Art

What loving-kindness meditation is and how to practice it in the...

Staff Writer - December 29, 2025

Jeremy David Engels, Penn State A popular New Year’s resolution is to take up meditation – specifically mindfulness meditation....

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’Tis the season … for gift-buying stress. Photo by Ryan Miller/Invision/AP

Business

How to reduce gift-giving stress with your kids – a child...

Staff Writer - December 23, 2025

Angela J. Narayan, University of Denver As a child, I loved being the center of attention. So it was...

Protesters run as Cameroonian security forces use water cannons to disperse them during the country’s latest election, whose integrity was widely challenged. AP Photo/Welba Yamo Pascal

Autocracies in transition: In 2025, Cameroon and Tanzania rulers clung to...

December 19, 2025

Colorado was the first state to pass a law requiring warning labels on gas stoves. mapodile/GettyImages

What are gas stove manufacturers trying to hide? Warning labels

December 18, 2025

Could this be the next Blitzen? Feeding a reindeer in Lapland, Finland, north of the Arctic Circle. Roberto Moiola/Sysaworld/Moment via Getty Images

The North Pole keeps moving – here’s how that affects Santa’s...

December 16, 2025

Some bird species on neighboring tips of the evolutionary tree can interbreed, with interesting genomic results. Kaleb Anderson

Songbirds swap colorful plumage genes across species lines among their evolutionary...

December 12, 2025