Most people blame their stress on work, relationships, or a packed schedule. Few think to look inside their closet. Yet the way we store our belongings has a measurable effect on how we feel day to day, and not always in ways that are easy to pinpoint. The anxiety doesn’t always announce itself. It settles …
Daniel Monroe
The Amazon is one of those places that feels mythological even when you’re standing right inside it. Stretching across nine countries and covering roughly half of all remaining tropical rainforest on Earth, it is a living, breathing, dripping cathedral of biodiversity. It is home to roughly 16,000 species of animals, many of which cannot be …
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fear of Eggs Made Him Gag Alfred Hitchcock’s Fear of Eggs Made Him Gag (image credits: unsplash) The master of suspense had one of the strangest phobias imaginable – a terror of eggs that bordered on the ridiculous. Alfred Hitchcock was an ovophobic, going “Psycho” if he ever saw an egg, specifically runny …
That low battery chirp from somewhere in your house at 2 a.m. The unexpected doorbell ring when you’re not expecting company. The bathroom scale silently judging you from the corner. These aren’t horror movie props, yet for plenty of adults, they provoke a very real spike in stress hormones. Here’s the thing: our homes are …
New Mexico ranks dead last among all US states in feeling safe, with only roughly one quarter of residents believing their state feels secure, followed closely by Oklahoma at under thirty percent. Americans report feeling increasingly anxious nationwide, with roughly two thirds expressing worry about gun violence specifically. Let’s be real, even though actual crime …