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Over half of the US population over the age of 65 suffer from some degree of hearing loss. Though this is a common issue with getting older and wiser, there’s still a lot of stigma surrounding the realities of hearing loss. This is how quality hearing aids can make a massive difference to your quality of life, drastically saving your social and physical well-being. Hearing Loss: It Happens To recognize and understand hearing loss, you’ll first need to have a rough idea of how hearing itself works. It’s a surprisingly complex process. When you hear a ball hitting the floor, the ear responds to vibrations that emanate from this impact.  The outer part of the ear collects the sound waves,...

“TV will rot your brain!” We’ve all heard that old canard. The idea that screen time makes kids dumber is a staple of the “Father, I cannot click the book” genre of boomer humor. But science is turning that narrative on its head. A newly published report using data from an ABCD Study indicates that screen time doesn’t rot kids’ brains after all. On the contrary: video games might actually make kids smarter.The ABCD StudyThe Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) study is a gigantic longitudinal study of American child health and brain development. The ABCD study timeline. Participants begin at 9-10 years of age. Through its massive slate of tests and surveys, the project records a wide array of...

Brett Morgan's latest music documentary, "Moonage Daydream," starts with David Bowie's disembodied voice talking about the complexity of time while letters start appearing on screen, out of order, until they spell out "BOWIE." It's appropriate that a film about a person as enigmatic and otherworldly as David Bowie would get a movie with the same title reveal treatment as Ridley Scott's "Alien."This makes perfect sense when considering how "Moonage Daydream" centers not on David Jones, the man who became an artist, but on David Bowie the rock star that became an ethereal being beyond human comprehension. Indeed, the first thing you need to know about this film is that there it features very little in terms of personal anecdotes or...

What is embodiment? We came across this mindfulness concept through the wise and magical holistic aesthetician, Sadie Adams, founder of celeb-adored Take Care Mind + Body studio here in L.A. Embodiment meditation is a practice to learn the language of the body and to allow the body to inform and contain our presence and sense of self. Embodiment deepens capacity for presence, receptivity, and compassionate exchange with all of reality. The practice of embodiment is about becoming more deeply present for direct experience. All of the feelings that influence our thinking and physical actions are stored in our bodies, as is our karma. As such, our bodies contain an innate intelligence that is often out of reach to our conscious...

As the death toll related to the powerful storm that swept Ontario and Quebec on Saturday reached 10 on Monday, some of the hardest-hit communities were still working to take stock of the damage. “It’s probably easier for us to count the homes that have no damage, than the ones that have damage,” said Clarence-Rockland fire chief Pierre Voisine, while surveying wreckage in nearby Hammond, Ont. on Monday. The region was hit hard enough by the storm to leave some homes reduced to twisted piles of timber, while downed power lines and broken telephone polls are still blocking streets strewn with debris from uprooted trees and the wreckage of buildings. The scale of the destruction prompted the community, along with...