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Jan Chozen Bays, MD - physician and Zen teacher - has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it.

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus, we don't like to talk, or even think, about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain". 

For more than four decades after gaining independence, India, with its massive size and population, staggering poverty and slow rate of growth, was associated with the plodding, somnolent elephant, comfortably resting on its achievements of centuries gone by. Then in the early 1990s the elephant...

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild. Watching a family out for a swim on a hot day...

Welcome to The Elephant! An interview and storytelling podcast investigating up-and-coming solutions to one of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change. Supported by Climate-KIC

Completely revised and updated to tackle today’s issues, the 10th Anniversary Edition not only explains what framing is and how it works but also reveals why, after a brief stint of winning the framing wars in the 2008 elections, the Democrats have gone back to losing them, and what can be done about it. In this powerful new volume, George Lakoff delves into the issues that will dominate the midterm elections in 2014, the coming presidential elections, and beyond.

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption - even murder and genocide - generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, bestselling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.

Globe-trotting sports nut Oly Bennet explores elephant polo's wild journey from boozy invention to controversial extinction. From drunk Brits founding a sport on a Nepalese airstrip to the ethical reckoning that stopped it all, discover why humans once thought riding five-ton animals while swinging mallets was brilliant entertainment. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Join host Lucien Graves as he unravels the secrets behind Harry Houdini's legendary 1918 vanishing elephant illusion. Explore the stagecraft, competing theories, and audacious spectacle that made this trick both a triumph and an enduring mystery. Each episode reveals a different layer of misdirection surrounding magic's most ambitious performance. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Rogue Elephant traces the radicalization of the Republican Party over the past 50 years, arguing that its subordination to Donald Trump was not an anomaly, but rather the culmination of processes at work for decades. Providing a new perspective on figures from Newt Gingrich and George W. Bush to the Tea Party and Donald Trump, it shows that the party's lurch to the far right was the product of a volatile mix of a disorganized party structure and a divided and fractious class of American business owners.

RIGHT cheek, LEFT cheek, two ass cheeks pretending they are meek while they wet their beaks,bunch a creeps.

Globe-trotting sports fanatic Oly Bennett dives into elephant soccer, from Thailand's giant kickabouts to Nepal's festival matches. Explore the bonkers history of pachyderm athletics where the beautiful game gets supersized, chaotic, and unforgettable. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Republican and Democrat dissent, with a growing hatred for the opposite party, has risen sharply like never before in our history. America is experiencing a political divide that intensified during the first year of President Trump’s administration. The political landscape has changed dramatically in the last decade and the Internet has played a massive role in this transformation. Experts reveal how social media, although a relatively new phenomenon, is being used maliciously to drive the nation apart.

Elephants carry more than we ask them to. So do the people who care for them. Bearing Weight is a podcast about the untold stories of elephants and the veterinarians, caregivers, researchers, advocates, and sanctuary leaders around the world who have dedicated their lives to them.These are honest, grounded conversations about what it really takes to put elephants first: the science, the sacrifice, the hard-won knowledge, and the quiet, daily work that rarely makes headlines. At a time when elephant welfare organizations often work in isolation, Bearing Weight is a space for their voices to ...

The Magical Story of a toy Stuffed Elephant, As he travels from the work shop of Santa, to the nice warm home of a small boy, and experiences many Adventures! - Summary by Gabriella Sasscer

Join us as we explore the fascinating world of Mortimer Q. Thomson, an American journalist and humorist known for his clever wit and intriguing stories. Writing under the pen name Q. K. Philander Doesticks, Thomsons journey began in Riga, New York, and took him through the halls of Michigan University, where he was expelled—rumored to be for his daring spirit and involvement in secret societies. After a brief stint in theater, he turned to journalism and lectures, captivating audiences with his unique style. This podcast delves into the whimsical adventures of the Elephant Club, a group ...

According to legend, the elephant knows when the end is near. Rather than trying to stick with the herd and potentially slowing them down, the elephant heads for the elephant graveyard. Here he can not only die in peace, but his descendants can easily locate him and visit his remains in the future.Abuda is an old elephant, the human kind, who has retreated to his sacred place. Each episode, he reflects on life as he prepares for his death."They say that somewhere in Africa the elephants have a secret grave where they go to lie down, unburden their wrinkled gray bodies, and soar away, light ...

This podcast is a supplement to our blog, The Glovebox. Offering an audio companion to our carefully curated and researched content about car insurance, cars, road safety, protecting your assets, and personal insurance best practices.

In this series of podcasts, actor Libby McArthur, life coach Ross Hyslop and motivational speaker Anne Hughes talk about the things we hardly ever talk about. The things we refer to as, ‘The Elephant in the Room’. Each episode is jampacked with thought-provoking chat as our three deep thinkers attempt to unpack the obvious, important enormous life topics, questions, and controversial issues that all of us know about, but no one hardly ever mentions or wants to discuss, because it makes at least some of us feel uncomfortable. In this first episode the group analyse the issues surrounding ...

In late 1971 John Lennon left London behind and moved to New York, eager to join a youth movement rallying for social justice and an end to the Vietnam War. Lennon was quickly embraced by radicals and revolutionaries, the hippies and Yippies at odds with the establishment. Settling in Greenwich Village, the heart of Manhattan's counterculture, the former Beatle was soon on the frontlines of the antiwar movement and championing a range of causes and issues.