Live Music’s Charms, Soothing Premature Hearts
A Better Baby Lullaby: New research finds that live music played for premature babies can be beneficial, calming their heart rate and breathing, and helping their sleep and sucking ability.
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Barking & Your Heart Rate.
The New York Times posted an interesting piece the other day about stress and the heart. It seems that the opposite is true as well, stress passes on as stress. Barking dogs damage heart rate by suddenly jacking it up or with long, prolonged destruction of someone’s home/peace. Read more >>
Focus Quiz
In today’s society most people are overwhelmed with information, responsibilities, and pressures from a multitude of directions. Losing focus and becoming scattered and stressed out is easy to do. If allowed to get out of control the “unfocused” state may lead to serious emotional, psychological, and physical problems Staying focused takes some real effort. Steps in the direction of healing include regularly getting a good night’s sleep, following a regimen of aerobic exercise, and practicing positive thinking–starting with thinking happy thoughts. Take the quiz and find out the ways in which you either are practicing good focus and where you are not. And then come up with a plan to work on improving one, two, or more of the problem areas. You’ll be surprised at how much good it can do you.
The Bolinas Oceanfront
A Safe Place To Play
Creating a safe play for children on the web is a big challenge. Metaverse has addressed this issue by actively involving moderators to keep things under control—and safe for kids. Wouldn’t it be nice if the same kind of adult supervision could be responsibly applied in real life to keep barking dogs from bothering people? Read more >>
Learning from Mother Nature.
Are We Becoming An Uncivil Society?
Good Dog, Good Person.
Good dog, good person. “When Zack Scow was near death, dogs came to his rescue. Now rescuing dogs is his life.”
How Protesting Helps a Cause
Do you think a protest of passion can help the dog barking cause? Let us know in the comments below, and get inspired by the article published in the SF Chronicle!
Smoking Ban-Barking Ban?
This article shows how influential a ban can be, what do you think…would it be outrageous to have a ban on barking dogs? Read the article below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.