Courtesy | Unsplash Researchers have pinpointed a phenomenon they call the “helper’s high,” which is a bit like a “runner’s high” except it doesn’t require excruciating suffering to attain. Allan Luks, the former executive director of the Institute for the Advancement of Health, wrote a book with Peggy Payne called “The Healing Power of Doing...
Courtesy | Unsplash Legoland, California — home to Project X, the world’s scariest roller coaster, with a drop the height of a skyscraper and turns sharper than my #2 pencil on exam days. At least, that’s what I thought when I was 7. Little Brennan watched the car zoom down the drop over the queue...
Disney’s 2025 film “Snow White” marks the media giant’s 20th live-action remake of a beloved animated original. The list includes “The Little Mermaid,” “Aladdin,” and “The Lion King” — those movies alone netted $2.1 billion at the box office. Moviegoers rightfully decry the end of creativity in Hollywood. Over the past five years, 30 of...
Read a book to your teenager. Future parents might gawk at that sentence. Isn’t a teenager too old for something as childish as his parents reading to him? Current parents might blanch as well, believing they’ve done their time. Shouldn’t fighting a decade in the trenches of the ABC’s and children’s literature be enough...