Scientists And Buddhists Agree About The Secrets Of Happiness.

A new study, this time by Duke University North Carolina, has again confirmed the results obtained by a wealth of previous research. It seems that, by every biological standard, at least, Buddhist monks and those wh...

As eco-architect Michael Reynolds proves using tin cans and old tires, sometimes the best ideas are also the simplest ones.

For the past 40 years, renegade architect Michael Reynolds has been developing a technological innovation that could be a ]]> http://www.senioractu.com/photo/art/imagette/2769536-3920475.jpg no JPTAROT Senioractu.com 2007 http://www.senioractu.com/Earthships-Setting-Sail-to-Sustainability_a13544.html tag:www.senioractu.com,2012:podcast-2718066 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:05:00 +0100 fr JPTAROT Senioractu.com 2007

Forget the mid-life crisis - it’s the thirties that are difficult, according to counseling service Relate. At one time, the mid-life crisis was reserved for those in their fortie...

As people progressively become more and more dependent on GPS to navigate around, are people slowly losing their sense of direction?

"We just go over here. Oh wait...hang on...I can't see the Google map...oh and my phone is about to die. Okay, I don't know where we're going."

Yes, that's the sound of my Parisian friend, Emilie, trying to guide us around, in Paris--and in he...

Over the last few years, especially in more rural areas in Eastern Germany, the German Democratic Front has been gaining traction in the political sphere.

While the main German government has don...

In the early 1950s as a very young lad in Scotland I was sent a pair of Jeans from an aunt who lived in New York. And so I can be excused for thinking Jeans are of American origin. At that time Jeans were still something new, in fact, I was the only young lad in the street, make that the town, who owned a pair of Jeans.

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More and more women in their thirties and beyond, after marriage and children having had children, are discovering that they are lesbians. Were they always or is sexuality more fluid than we are led to believe?

It could well be the latter. Richard Lippa, professor of psychology at California State University, believes that shifts in sexuality occur in
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As a society, we are becoming more and more obsessed with what we put in our mouths. Doctors tell us not to eat too much fat or sugar, to fill up on fruit and vegetables and to cut down on alcohol and caffeine. The media tells us that increasing numbers of adults an...

One in seven British couples has trouble conceiving; they go through the heartbreak and frustration of finding out that they cannot have children, often after years of trying. Whilst some decide to adopt, others look to fertility treatment such as in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), which can
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Many people in their twenties and thirties have a bone to pick with the baby boomers. They feel that the generation born during the post-World War Two baby boom have left a negative legacy for the next generation, who are left to pick up the pieces.

By the time they were born...

‘They shoot schoolchildren, don’t they?’ This is the title of a book that is causing a stir in France. Its author is British, and its subject is the French education system. British journalist and lecturer Peter Gumbel has lived in France since 2002. He lectures in journalism at the Institute of Politica...

Internships is the American word, ‘placements’ is the English word, but both describe the same phenomena, young people working in companies on ‘work experience schemes’ to try and make them more attractive to employers, who will be seduced into offering them a proper job i...