Four women chosen to run world’s most remote post office in Antarctica Four women are to travel to a distant part of Antarctica to take up jobs including running the world’s most remote post office and counting the island’s penguins. Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone beat a record number of applicants…
We are often told of the health benefits of walking and in more recent years a target for adults of 10,000 steps per day is regularly touted. In truth, there is no hard science behind this, though in the last few years more studies have shed light on the relationship between walking and its clinical…
I had the pleasure this week of attending the premier of a new movie about Laudato Si’ called The Letter – A Message for our Earth. Launched in the Vatican on the Feast of St Francis of Assisi, October 4, The Letter is a powerful movie which tells the story of four people from very different…
Sweet Treats These humble muffins pack a big punch of flavour. The cinnamon and nutmeg make them warming, while the chocolate makes then comforting and slightly nostalgic. I find that I often have high ambitions of eating healthy when I buy bananas, and then promptly forget about them. While not exactly ‘healthy’, these muffins are…
Price for corgis rockets in UK after queen’s death Prices for corgis, the dogs beloved by Britain’s late Queen Elizabeth, have soared to new highs since her funeral last week, AFP reported the UK’s largest pet marketplace as saying Pets4Homes told AFP it was currently experiencing “over ten times the volume of daily searches for…
Study suggests 20 quadrillion ants on Earth There are at least 20 quadrillion ants on Earth, AFP reports. This is according to a new study that says even that towering figure likely underestimates the total population of the insects, which are an essential part of ecosystems around the world. Determining the global population of ants…
Mindful Living The Garden of Love by William Blake I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A Chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this Chapel were shut, And Thou shalt not. writ over the door;…
Children’s Corner If you don’t know what invisible ink is, or how to make it, you are missing out. It can be a great way to send secret messages to your friends that won’t be intercepted by anyone else. It’s a method that can be tracked back for thousands of years and has been used…
A Parent’s Perspective There’s a lot of worry and concern about the dwindling numbers of young people attending Mass. Reactions to this often fall into two broad categories – one stance is to brush over the facts and take the focus off the issue by praising the efforts of teenagers and young adults in other…
Cravings for fatty foods traced to gut-brain connection New research investigating the source of our appetites has uncovered an entirely new connection between the gut and the brain that drives our desire for fat. At Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute, scientists studying mice found that fat entering the intestines triggers a signal. Conducted along nerves to the…
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