Thursday 23rd May 2024

You are your body: here’s how to feel more at home in it | Psyche Ideas

is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Economist and on the BBC. Her interests range from business to science and health, with a particular focus on mental health and human rights. Her work has won a number of awards, and she is involved in training others and facilitating networking. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Imagine looking in the mirror of a clothing store changing room, wearing something that doesn’t quite fit. As you tug at the jeans, your thoughts pull at ideas about what your body should be. Or picture yourself hunched at your office desk for hours on end. Your body is crying out to stretch and move, but you suppress the discomfort and press on. In both scenarios – and many others – you’re talking to yourself about your body as if it’s something separate from ‘you’. So many of us today carry on in this way – ignoring the deep connection between mind and body.

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This Tiny Taco Stand in Mexico City Was Just Awarded a Coveted Michelin Star

Founded in 1968, Taquería El Califa de León has just four items on its menu, which diners eat while standing elbow to elbow

The famed Michelin Guide helps diners discover the best restaurants in the world by awarding them coveted Michelin stars. Many of the eateries on the list are high-end, fine dining establishments serving expensive, multi-course chef's tasting menus or gourmet à la carte dishes.

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DNA Reveals How German Cockroaches Came to Dominate the World

A new paper looks at the genes of the most common cockroach species, tracing its historical journey alongside humans, from Asia to the Middle East, Europe and beyond

The German cockroach lives not in the wild, but in human buildings across the globe. The widespread species is the world’s most prevalent cockroach, but scientists have been unsure where it originally came from.

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Keith Haring Painted This Mural on the Wall of an Iowa Elementary School Library

Ahead of planned construction, experts removed the 4,000-pound wall behind the 1989 artwork, which is now on public display for the first time

For over three decades, students at an elementary school in Iowa were able to examine a mural that renowned artist Keith Haring had painted on the wall of their library.

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Cleaning Crew Discovers One of the World's Oldest Surviving Desktop Computers

Last December, employees at Just Clear, a London-based house clearance company, were emptying a property when they stumbled across two decades-old computers.

At first, the workers were unsure what they had uncovered. They didn’t recognize the items and couldn’t find any relevant information online, Just Clear’s founder, Brendan O’Shea, tells Live Science’s Keumars Afifi-Sabet. After speaking with an expert, however, O’Shea learned that his team had found rare pieces of technology history: a 1972 Q1 desktop microcomputer with an internal printer and a 1976 Q1 Lite with an external companion printer.

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Tennis Icon Venus Williams Scores Her Own Barbie Doll

The plastic (and fantastic) version of Williams is one of nine new Mattel dolls celebrating female athletes

Tennis champion Venus Williams is receiving her own Barbie doll, along with eight other female athletes, as part of a program to motivate girls to stay active and participate in sports. The new line of dolls comes in time to commemorate Barbie’s 65th birthday.

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This 130,000-Year-Old Decorative Bear Bone May Be the Oldest Known Neanderthal Art

Researchers say the carved artifact was not a utilitarian item and instead served a symbolic purpose

The stereotypical image of a Neanderthal is that of a brutish, unintelligent and uncivilized caveman. However, a new study from researchers at the University of Wrocław in Poland is attempting to demonstrate that our Homo sapien predecessor possessed cognitive abilities and was even artistic.

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Mexico's Howler Monkeys Are Dying, 'Falling Out of the Trees,' Amid Scorching Heat Wave

Veterinarians and volunteers are trying to save the threatened primates by hoisting buckets of water and food into trees, as well as providing medical care

Howler monkeys are dying from dehydration and heatstroke amid scorching temperatures and drought in southeastern Mexico.

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A Historical Glass-Enclosed Chapel Overlooking the Pacific Ocean Must Be Dismantled Before Nature Can Destroy It

The one-of-a-kind sculpture in California, designed by the son of famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is at the mercy of shifting grounds

In the late 1940s, Lloyd Wright—son of famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright—drew up plans for a striking chapel made of glass, wood and stone. Crews finished building the chapel in 1951 beneath a canopy of redwood trees on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal city south of Los Angeles.

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Did Hannibal's Army Burn Down This Ancient Mountain Settlement?

In a scorched village in Spain, archaeologists discovered a hidden gold earring that suggests residents foresaw a coming attack around the time of the Second Punic War

A single gold earring—measuring less than an inch in both width and length—has provided historians with intriguing new insight into an ancient conflict.

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