How can Sir Patrick Stewart, some snot, and a drone help save the whales? The beloved actor is backing a kickstarter project for the Snotbot, a drone designed to collect snot samples from wild whales. Snot may seem like a weird thing to be collecting, but from the samples, scientists will be able to learn […]

This Atlanta summer has been a scorcher with plentiful heat and humidity. As the temps continue to rise, our minds look ahead on the calendar forward to the return of cooler fall days and other perks that come with them –  Falling leaves, warm sweaters and 2015 TEDx Peachtree. This November the mental cardio session returns to the […]

I recently watched a brilliant TED talk by Kelly McGonigal, a popular health psychologist. What I learned has largely changed the way I think, not only about stress, but also about my everyday worries and habits. One of Kelly’s points is related to a recent stress study conducted by the University of Wisconsin that tracked […]

About a month ago, my boyfriend suffered a stroke. Strokes are normally caused by either clotting or hemorrhaging, but in his case, he had both. This complicated the decisions the doctors needed to make about how to help him, but in the end they removed the clot, and then removed more clots and even put […]