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According to a newly-released study, those crazy people who regularly rise perkily, happily, and unfathomably early in the morning might just do so due to a genetic mutation.  No, really!  We’re not making this up, we promise. The esteemed publication...
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Most readers of our blog are well aware of the controversial issues surrounding food politics in general and the industrialized food industry specifically. (If you need a refresher, just check out the trailer for the movie “Food, Inc.” which we...
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Here’s your assemblage of yoga-and-related news items you might have missed over the past couple of weeks!  Enjoy. 1) You know how so many people in the yoga community love attending live kirtans (call-and-response chanting concerts in the Hindu tradition) at...
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We’d like to direct your attention to a little discussion taking place on one of our favorite blogs, Yoga Dork.  The backstory here involves Tara Stiles, a New York-based yoga teacher about whom we’ve written here on our blog before,...
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The New York Times just ran an article titled “Where Thin People Roam, and Sometimes Even Eat“.  Apparently, a new study which utilized body-mass index data found that the borough of Manhattan houses the thinnest people in all of New...
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Hello, hello! Have you been paying attention to your yoga-and-other-interesting-items news lately? If not, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Here is our assemblage of “interesting news items you might have missed” from the past few weeks (volume 8)!...
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…We wouldn’t! To be honest though, the study didn’t really turn up anything especially damning about reusable bags (but we’re sure its sponsors would have liked it to!)  Funded by the Canadian Plastics Industry, the research basically found that if...
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Manohla Dargis of The New York Times calls it “one of the scariest movies of the year” and describes it as “an informative, often infuriating activist documentary about the big business of feeding or, more to the political point, force-feeding,...
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We were intrigued by a recent piece penned by yoga instructor Tara Stiles on The Huffington Post titled “It’s Cool To Be Healthy Again!” Here’s an excerpt: Thankfully it’s cool now to be healthy. Organic shopping, cooking at home and...
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