Category: Wellbeing

25.07.2016

7 tips to keep your brain sharp

Keeping your brain from degenerating and your cognitive capacity from declining should always be a top health priority. After all, that gray matter inside your head controls every vital function in your entire body. So, here are some guidelines provided by Alzheimer’s Association in a Star 2 report to help boost your mental capacity and maintain a healthy brain. Exercise Several studies point to the […]

11.07.2016

Turnbull Declares Victory Even as Australia Vote Outcome Unclear

Coalition may clinch enough seats to form majority government Former banker lacks strong mandate for economic reforms While annual growth has accelerated toward its 30-year average of 3.2 percent and unemployment has fallen to 5.7 percent, Australians don’t feel richer. The nation is the world’s most China-dependent developed economy and needs new growth drivers after prices for its iron ore and coal exports plunged.

03.07.2016

China and Other Claimants in the South China Sea: (Politics-Good to know)

The issues of the South China Sea are too trivial to be allowed to spark armed conflict or trans-Pacific confrontation.  They are solvable, if those enmeshed in them are willing to make the effort to imagine and pursue solutions to them.  The parties need urgently to get on with this.  And they deserve American encouragement to do so. Diplomacy on the Rocks: China and Other […]

02.07.2016

Career Counselling? (Satire)

Little john was in his junior school class when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up: Fireman, policeman, salesman, politician, etc. However, little john was being uncharacteristically quiet, and so the teacher asked him about his father. Reluctantly he replied, “My Dad is an exotic dancer in a gay club, and takes off all […]