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Today's a new day. It's your day. You shape it. Don't let it be shaped by someone else's ignorance or fear - Steve Maraboli

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The Plastic Pollution Coalition: Spreading the Word to Reduce the Waste

Feb 20, 2016 - As valuable as they can be, recycling and clean-ups aren't the answer. Source reduction is the key to sparing the environment—including ourselves—from more plastic poisoning. Enter the Plastic Pollution Coalition to get that message into our thick heads

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Obamacare, is it on Life Support?

Jan 20, 2016 - A reasonable prediction seems to be the ACA is here to stay and that efforts to repeal it will, vis-a-vi the British system, become less fervent as people get used to the benefits it offers to them

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Women on 20s: Promoting the Value of Gender Equality

Dec 10, 2015 - The U.S. talks a good game of gender equality, but a new nonprofit org says the country needs to put its money where its mouth is.

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Contributing to a More Informed Society

Oct 7, 2015 - Just about the only time the CPB is in the news is when pols make noise about choking off federal funding for public media. But if more people knew the whole story, the conversation might be different.

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Retraction Watch: Providing Information About Bad Information

Jul 20, 2015 - In a field supposedly peer-reviewed and self-correcting, there is a decided lack of transparency and dissemination when it comes to retractions. Enter Retraction Watch, which aims to change the paradigm.

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Alkaline Water: Healthy Elixir?

Jun 2, 2015 - Do alkaline water's health claims hold water or do the benefits simply favor the maker over the drinker?

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Mr. Money Mustache: Preaching a Different Means to Make Ends Meet

May 12, 2015 - The price of overspending can be counted not merely in the cost of each excessive or needless purchase, but also in how such a lifestyle cuts into your financial freedom. But a young retiree is looking to guide others in a different direction.

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Bruce K. Alexander: Changing the Conventional Wisdom about Addiction

Apr 6, 2015 - What if addiction is less about drugs & genetics and more about circumstances? It's a question the powers-that-be might not be comfortable hearing, but for decades Bruce Alexander has worked to make addiction as we know it a thing of the past.