Take a Stand Karen Mcc August 31, 2017 Movement is important for many aspects of health including digestion, skeletal structure, and mental well-being. Sitting in the same position for too long can feel to the body like a form of physical restraint and physical restraint can cause a stress response called chronic restraint stress. Sitting in one position[…] Read More » Danny Roddy, Karen and Sean on “carnism” Podcast August 3, 2017 Karen and Sean discuss “carnism” and the video promoting it with Danny Roddy, author, researcher and nutrition coach. Carnism Video: The Secret Reason We Eat Meat – Dr. Melanie Joy Read More » Being a Hero Karen Mcc June 15, 2017 The new Wonder Woman movie debuted which got me thinking about heroes. As a kid, you wonder if you’ll get the chance at some point in your future to be one. Life holds many possibilities when you are young and you wonder, what will it be? Will you push someone[…] Read More » Discovery in the Middle East Grant Albert June 9, 2016 Much can be taken away from the free trip to Israel if you are Jewish between the ages of eighteen to twenty-six, known as a Birthright trip. Eating falafel by the handful and spooning hummus onto your plate as if they were mashed potatoes during Thanksgiving. Walking on the silk-like[…] Read More » Healthy Living Karen Mcc April 27, 2016 When trying to heal ourselves, studying too much information can get us lost and alienated from the hopeful payoffs of our good intentions toward health. If we aren’t careful, we can find ourselves thinking that the road to good health is following an overly restrictive list of “do’s and don’ts”[…] Read More » The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture Nora Samaran February 25, 2016 The original article can be found here. Republished with permission from the author. The opposite of masculine rape culture is masculine nurturance culture: men* increasing their capacity to nurture, and becoming whole. The Ghomeshi trial is back in the news, and it brings violent sexual assault back into people’s minds[…] Read More » Photo by Tyler Derosier Maintaining the Causality Field Karen Mcc February 18, 2016 I do not have a strong scientific background. I was a biology major for a couple of years and took various science classes. But you know how undergrad at a state college can be where classes are filled with hundreds of people. You take your textbook home, memorize what you[…] Read More » Photo by Tyler Derosier Eco-organization Éric Lépine November 19, 2015 The ecosystem is constantly reborn and rebuilt, by virtue of the fact that it is autophagous, biophagous, necrophagous, coprophagous and, in sum, euryphagous. Death is stronger than life in irreversibility, while life is stronger than death in recursivity. Nature’s seemingly antifragile properties stem from its eco-organization, which occurs via integration[…] Read More » Elements of Fun Karen Mcc August 27, 2015 Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. ~Stephen Vincent Benét Fun. A term we take for granted because like a lot of words that are commonly used, the meaning becomes fuzzy over time. A[…] Read More » The Stick Figure and The Sick Figure Sean Bissell April 30, 2015 I don’t read comics now but I did back when I was a kid, I collected Marvel cards instead of baseball cards and I had fun reading the comics I could afford. But I never super got into them like some people do. My favorite was Calvin and Hobbes. Recently[…] Read More »