Welcome to My . . . Morning Wake-Up Flow

Pierre Van Zyl

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Yoga instructor Kristin Calabria shares a pre-workout yoga flow that activates your core and improves range of motion and mobility in the hips.
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These Are Five Types of Friends You Probably Don’t Need

Pierre Van ZylLearn, Opinion

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Many people have friends they’ve known for what feels like forever. Maybe they met in college or at work or in a carpool group, or they go way back from childhood. The friendship feels secure, as do most relationships that have lasted for years, but people may take these connections as facts of life without…

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Drone captures the largest swarm of sea turtles ever filmed

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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Given that we are currently experiencing a global extinction crisis, the occasion to witness a large congregation of an endangered species is a rare and special opportunity indeed. The density of turtles is so high that you could almost imagine crossin…

Let’s Embrace a Little “Scruffy Hospitality” Because Our Homes Don’t Have to be Picture Perfect to Have People Over

Pierre Van ZylLearn, Personal Growth + Development

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There are a lot of expectations when it comes to hospitality. Imagine you are hosting a dinner party. Not only do you carefully plan the menu but the house has to be spotless as well (or at least the rooms the guests will be.) The table should be set before the guests enter, the dishes…

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World’s First Funerary Human Composting Site To Open In 2021

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries, Planet

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The world’s first funerary human composting facility is slated to open in the spring of 2021 after Washington State lawmakers legalized the posthumous process earlier this year. Seattle-based company Recompose will be the first to offer “natural organic reduction,” a process that owner Katrina Spade says gently converts human remains – bones, teeth, and all…

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A golden chamber buried under a mountain in Japan contains water so pure it can dissolve metal.

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries, Planet

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The Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector looks like something out of a sci-fi movie that critics would deem “too unrealistic.” Picture a gigantic dome-shaped chamber with gold walls, an array of light detectors, and 50,000 tons of pure water. However, the Super-K neutrino detector is real and hidden 1,000 meters under Mount Ikeno in Japan. (Neutrinos are…

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Weekend Reading, 12.7.19

Pierre Van ZylNutrition and Wellness, weekend reading

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It was a spectacular week of recipe fails around here, which is why I haven’t had anything to post. Not just recipes that needed fine tuning, mind you, but real duds. It was frustrating. Needless to say, I reacted by bearing down and retesting everything, which only resulted in repeated failures. Finally, I decided to…

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My Week in Workouts

AngelaRunning, snow running, snowshoe running, Strength training for runners, winter running, Workouts

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The first week of December brought one thing to my week in workouts – SNOW! Monday and Tuesday brought us about 18 inches of snow followed by 1-2 inches on Friday night. It was nice to see all the brown covered with white stuff. And with snow means more play time. I had SNOW much […]

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The tiny Wisconsin town where you’ll find the center of the world

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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That the tiny, remote town of Poniatowski in Marathon county, Wisconsin, is one of the four 45×90 points in the earth – the centers of the world. If you were to divide the surface of the earth into four equal parts, the center of each part is called a 45×90 point. These points are halfway…

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Parking Lot gets Turned Into a Safe Haven For The Homeless At Night

Pierre Van ZylHealthy Aging + General Wellness, Learn, News + Discoveries

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No one ever chooses to be homeless. Whether it is because of mounting debt, illness, or inability to find work, there are millions of people every night across the country who have no place but the streets to lay their heads. There are over half a million homeless people in the United States [1]. Approximately…

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Why Independent Farming in America Is Close to Extinction

Pierre Van ZylLearn, News + Discoveries, Planet

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When you hear the words “rural America”, you probably imagine that picturesque scene from a Hallmark movie: a charming old farmhouse, a big red barn silo, and a herd of cattle grazing peacefully on rolling green pastures. While this scene may have been the case a hundred years ago, the current landscape is looking much…

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Homemade Oven Cleaner

Pierre Van ZylHome + Garden, Make

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Keeping your oven clean is very important because the burnt, baked-on food can release carcinogens as it continues to burn. Off-the-shelf oven cleaners contain a lot of toxins and if it comes in contact with your skin, you could suffer, since it can eat through your skin. Natural oven cleaning products and green cleaning products can…

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No-Bake Coconut Cookies Recipe

Pierre Van ZylDesserts, eat, Snacks + Sides

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What’s better than cookies? Cookies that don’t require an oven! That’s why these No-Bake Coconut Cookies are the best. They’re super-fast to make, there’s no baking involved and they’re so good for you, with things like almond butter and coconut oil in every bite. Best of all, there are no unpronounceable, unnatural ingredients like store-bought cookies. These no-bake babies…

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Grandma and Stranger Share 4th Thanksgiving After Accidental Text from 2016

Pierre Van Zylholiday

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Many of us have received text messages intended for someone else. We reply with “wrong number” and don’t think much about it. That’s what nearly happened to Jamal Hinton, 20, of Phoenix, Arizona when he opened up his phone to find a text from an unknown number: Thanksgiving dinner is at my house on Nov….

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Grandma and Stranger Share 4th Thanksgiving After Accidental Text from 2016

Pierre Van Zylholiday

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Many of us have received text messages intended for someone else. We reply with “wrong number” and don’t think much about it. That’s what nearly happened to Jamal Hinton, 20, of Phoenix, Arizona when he opened up his phone to find a text from an unknown number: Thanksgiving dinner is at my house on Nov….

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U.S. Annually Uses 388 Million Pounds of Pesticides Banned in Either the EU, China, or Brazil

Pierre Van ZylFact Checked, Planet

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When you pick out your produce at the grocery store, you trust that it is safe for you to eat, and at least hope that it was produced in a way that is not harmful to the environment. Pesticides, of course, do not really fit within this narrative, and it turns out that while many…

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A Baby was Born ‘Pregnant” and an Emergency C-Section was Performed to Remove Her Own Sibling

Pierre Van ZylPregnancy

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For some women, finding out that they are pregnant can come as a huge surprise. For Monica Vega of Barranquilla, Columbia, the shock came much later when she found out that she wasn’t the only one who was pregnant – her baby was, too. Vega’s baby girl, Itzmara, was born at seven months by cesarean…

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Should LASIK Eye Surgery Be Banned? Here’s Why Some People Say Yes

Pierre Van ZylHeal, Health Awareness, Learn, Opinion

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In 2015, Max Cronin decided he wanted to ditch his glasses by getting LASIK surgery shortly after he served as a soldier in Iraq. He felt the surgery would allow him to study easier as he took courses as a petroleum engineer student at Texas A&M University. His mother, Dr. Nancy Burleson, was so thrilled…

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Cannabis-Infused Salted Caramel Coffee

Pierre Van ZylDrinks, eat

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Coffee, to many, is a staple in Western society, especially for nurses, university students, new parents, and anyone running on too little sleep. And, just like any popular food, chefs — in this case, baristas — are always looking for ways to improve it, or at least spice it up (because let’s face it, a…

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Podcast 209 | Uncivilized

Pierre Van ZylMinimalism, Podcast

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By Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus · Follow: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Joshua and Ryan talk about consumerism, the successes and failures of modern society, the price of progress, and whether civilization has actually made us less civilized with author and podcaster Dr. Christopher Ryan, and they answer the following questions…

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This Shelter Cat Got Solitary Confinement For Helping Other Cats Escape

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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Employees at the Friends for Life Animal Shelter in Houston, Texas have been encountering a unique problem for the past several months: the door to the shelter’s senior cat room kept mysteriously opening, allowing the cats inside to wander around…

More polio cases now caused by oral vaccine than by wild virus

Pierre Van ZylFact Checked, Health Awareness, Learn, News + Discoveries, parenting

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In recent days, headlines crying “more polio cases now caused by vaccine than by wild virus” are circulating online. But before you jump to conclusions about the safety of polio vaccines, you should look a little closer. No, people are not catching polio from getting a polio vaccine. But there is some truth to those…

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