When Ashley Ford was four and living with her single mum, brother, and grandmother, she taught herself to lie awake until morning because she wanted the sunrise. We learned about her backyard story in her memoir, Somebody's Daughter .

Ashley had little idea of whereabouts of her absent father (who was jailed) and dared not ask her mother why her father was in prison (because he raped two women). She moved out from the home in Brooklyn, where her mother was living with her boyfriend. She

Try as you may, you can't find words to exchange information clearly via text or emails.

Jefferson Fisher shared his story of misinterpreted text exchange with his momma. His mom saw the words but never read them all right. She simply needed his voice to hear the true meaning.

What's the difference between transmission and connection? Reading sheet music is going to convey information like transmission. It's a prime example of communication that lacks depth. Hearing a symphony perform the music, on the other hand

If Yuval Noah Harari is named the most influential historian from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Benjamin Labatut would have been the Chilean counterpart of him.

One of Benjamin Labatut's "works of fiction based on real event", When We Cease to Understand the World , chronicles the complicated links between scientists and Frankenstein.

Think about the pigment Prussian blue. That's one of the sensational colours used by Van Gogh (think Starry Night ) and Katsushika Hokusai (think The Great Wave off Kanagawa ). The dye was

Jefferson Fisher, the American trial lawyer who gained millions of followers online for his videos teaching on communication, shares tried-and-true tips on his new book The Next Conversation .

This is a book of handling conflicts. If you wish to remember just one lesson from his book, it would be the one about "Never win an argument." I learned this rule the hard way, after joining a debate session in a recent scientific meeting.

Think of a heated competition that divide the world into "right'

I would be lying if I said that I knew, one year ago, the meaning of a caption "This pig could save your life" in the National Geographic magazine this May. Now we know. And more so after the headline from the scientific journal Nature yesterday, announcing the news "Amazing feat: US man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant." And surprise, surprise, there have also been stories of pig heart transplantation in human body.

The scientific breakthrough of genetically modified pig kidney is unparalleled

As is often the case among the elderly, an episode of fall with broken bone is a double whammy. They dare not move too far. My dad is one of them; he is now more inclined to stay in the Rapunzel-like tower.

The art of aging is to break this downward spiral in the elderly. The less you move, the more likely you are to lose bone density. The same goes for your muscle, which is a lot about "use it or lose it."

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