The mystical experience defies rationality and women going through it usually invite dismissal. Arundhathi Subramaniam’s latest book, Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Conversations with Four Travellers on Sacred Journeys, has in it four unique women who carved a spiritual path for themselves in the wake of a cataclysmic experience. There have been blazingly memorable women […]
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Tourists walk at the Ben Gurion International Airport after entering Israel by plane, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions ease, in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel, May 27, 2021. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun JERUSALEM, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Individual tourists who are vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to enter Israel from month, the government said on Thursday, […]
In a biometrics development that might generate some resistance among the AI skeptical, Belgian researchers have demonstrated authentication using brain waves. The waves are like fingerprints or vein patterns — unique and detailed. They used electroencephalography, or EEG, on 15 “healthy people” and recorded an authentication accuracy rate of 92.6 percent, a false acceptance rate […]
Picture a typical phone break. You scroll past images of babies, drone attacks, an overwrought hospital, a sunflower field, a distracted boyfriend meme about the latest political development. Interspersed within these are Instagram accounts with handles a combination of words like boss, affirmations, success, healing, anxiety, tossed together with one line zingers that sound like […]
Fellow insomniacs: the answer to our sleep deprivation has been sitting in the freezer all along. At least that’s what TikTokers like @heyfrankiesimmons, @empathary and @borcikjewelry are saying. Apparently, placing a simple ice pack on your chest might lull you to sleep in just 15 minutes. Insomnia has ruled my waking life for the best […]
AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple has introduced a new subscription tier for Apple Music dubbed the Voice Plan that lets users access the platform’s catalog using Siri. The Voice Plan […]
1994 wasn’t the best year for the Walt Disney Company. Frank Wells died in a heli-skiing accident on April 3. In July, Michael Eisner had a heart attack leading to quadruple bypass surgery. Jeffery Katzenberg, the head of the studios left the company to co-found Dreamworks. There were continued issues with the now renamed Disneyland […]
Questions for Liberal voters of Hughes Some questions for the Liberal voters of Hughes to contemplate while we await the next election. You voted for Craig Kelly, will you again? If not, will you vote for another ratbag representative of the corrupt and incompetent Morrison government, knowing that they totally bungled the vaccine procurement and […]
Brandi-Carlile-last-word – Credit: Illustration by Mark Summers for Rolling Stone Brandi Carlile was looking forward to some time off when she finished work on her bestselling memoir, Broken Horses. But instead, when her friend Bernie Taupin sent her some poems he’d written, she found herself inspired to write an album’s worth of songs — just […]
Scotland is making a cognitive behavioral therapy app for anxiety and insomnia available to all adults in the country, marking a major validation of digital therapeutics to treat behavioral health conditions. Scotland’s National Health Service (NHS) will offer national access to products from digital therapeutic maker Big Health at no cost to the user. About 5 […]