Hugs reduce fear, stress, depression, loneliness, sickness and, in addition, provide self confidence, love and protection. Students at C​arnegie Mellon University conducted a study in which they took healthy adults and gave half of them hugs while the other half continued to live day by day ...

When junior Kylie Raymond first entered the world, she came out blue. Not caused by a skin condition, but by a heart problem called Tetralogy of Fallot. In 2001, Raymond’s mother gave birth to her in Germantown, Tennessee. After delivery, doctors sent her on an emergency helicopter to Vanderbilt Unive...

Studies prove that loving words help plants thrive. An experiment conducted by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) found that plants not subjected to loving words grew slower than the plants subjected to loving words. The plants given loving words grew faster, taller and produced better ...

The door’s heavy. Even after a firm push from my hand grasping the stainless-steel door knob, I still have to push. Have to use my shoulder to the get the thing to even budge forward. Then I fall forward 3 feet into the doorway, almost lose my footing, almost bust my chin into the plain tile flooring. The ligh...

Beginning in early October, the theatre department started working on producing a new musical, Mary Poppins Jr. The show took place this past week and provided many people with the opportunity to see the hard work this department put into the musical. Based around the Disney movie, Mary Poppins, the m...