A hot cup of tea, coffee, or cocoa is calming and comforting-but how can holding a warm mug affect our emotions? In Heartwarming, social psychologist Hans Rocha IJzerman explores temperature through the long lens of evolution.
Temperature contributed to our evolution-our upright walking, our loss of fur, and our big brains-and now continues to affect our lives in unexpected ways, and the link from a warm mug to our emotions is anything but straightforward. Studies have shown, for example, that a chilly deliberation room can predispose a jury to convict and that a cold day can make us more likely to buy a house. Our mind-body connection works the other way, too: thinking about friendly or caring people can make us feel warmer. Understanding how we subconsciously strive to keep our temperature in an optimal range can help us in our relationships, jobs, and even in the world of social media.
As IJzerman illuminates how temperature affects human sociality, he examines fascinating new questions: How will climate change impact society? Why are some people chronically cold, and others overheated? Can thermoregulation keep relationships closer, even across a distance? The answers offer new insights for all of us who want to better understand our bodies, our minds, and each other.
We harbor roughly the same number of microbes as we have cells. This complex ecosystem is crucial to our health, affecting many processes including immunity, child development, and bone density regulation. Research in this area has exploded, and in this audiobook, we highlight some of the most exciting work on how the microbiome develops, its influence on brain and behavior, and implications in both contributing to and treating various disorders.
In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing—and endangering—human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.
In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe—but the story didn't end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one.
How and why could this happen? What is hijacking our fertility and our health? Count Down unpacks these questions, revealing what Swan and other researchers have learned about how both lifestyle and chemical exposures are affecting our fertility, sexual development—potentially including the increase in gender fluidity—and general health as a species. Engagingly explaining the science and repercussions of these worldwide threats and providing simple and practical guidelines for effectively avoiding chemical goods (from water bottles to shaving cream) both as individuals and societies, Count Down is at once an urgent wake-up call, an illuminating read, and a vital tool for the protection of our future.
Is Bigfoot real? Was there a lost continent called Atlantis? What causes navigational anomalies inside the Bermuda Triangle? Are humans actually aliens to Earth? Did ET's build the Great Pyramids? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and Our Starseeded Origins, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about who exactly Pax is, why the Spirit World wishes to help us now, and the truth about the inception of humankind on Earth. What's more, Hayes dives into many questions of long-standing and universal human curiosity and Pax provides insights never before revealed.
Are dolphins highly intuitive beings with a unique duty in the oceans? Is plastic off-gassing into our food poisoning us? Can breathing steamed bamboo leaves treat asthma? Did the First Nations Peoples have the right philosophies for harmonious living all along? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and the Critical Return to Wisdom, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about plant-based diets and medicines, the best-practices of indigenous and First Peoples, and the profound wisdom of animals.
Did aliens really crash at Roswell in 1947? (And, where are the bodies?) Do ETs help mankind advance our technology? Is there a magical soil that can turn saltwater to fresh and end the global water shortage crisis? What's the best replacement material to all plastics? What's coming that will make cell phones a thing of the past as our communication technology advances? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and Enviro-Tech Gamechangers, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about alien visitations to Earth, telepathic communication, and advanced technologies to be discovered.
What happens to the continent of Australia when the bushfires meet the coal in the ground? What does the Spirit World have to say about the state of our environment? Can heavy viral energy masses be seen from space by those who can sense energy? Is it possible to dissolve a cloud using thought power? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and the Crossroads of Our Survival, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about global warming, plus air, water, and soil pollution, and what we can do about it.
How can we know what our life purpose is? Is there a "life cord" that connects us to other souls? Where do our pets go when they die? Can each person's self-empowerment create the global power necessary to change the world? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and the Path of Purpose, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about the meaning of life, the nature of the afterlife, government corruption and greed, and the power of one person to make a difference in their own life and the greater world.
Does the Spirit World have more to add to the Ask-Believe-Receive method of manifesting? Does each generation have a specific role to play in environmental repair? Can we truly change systemic corruption and will the tide of power turn? Does intention actually create everything in the physical world? What can we do to develop our intuitive abilities? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and the Yellow Brick Message, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about our Higher Self consciousness, honing our Sixth Sense, the life and intention of Jesus Christ, empowerment and the importance of trusting in one's own self rather than giving blind trust to those outside of the Self. Plus, Pax gifts listeners with a simple yet powerful tutorial of six essential steps for manifesting goals and dreams.
What's next in clean fuels and what can replace crude oil altogether? What is the next frontier in our scientific exploration? What is the new field of science that will merge traditional science with metaphysics and spiritual modalities? Do governments use a special psychic power to spy on each other, and why? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and the Next Evolutionary Leap, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about the replacement to crude oil and the fuel for interstellar travel at lightspeed, communication through thought power and consciousness, remote viewing, and more.
Are there other habitable planets within our reach? What will drive propulsion in space for our future interstellar travel? Will friendly extraterrestrials help us to advance the technologies to discover new worlds? Do aliens have sports and do they have a sense of play and humor? All this and more is answered in this extraordinary conversation.
Pax self-introduces as the "Divine Universe" and "God being" and has important information to share with humanity regarding planetary repair and environmental healing. This message often reads like an adventure and addresses world peace and unity and pollution and anthropogenic climate change in a way that is entertaining, solution-based, and enlightening.
This particular portion of text, Pax and the Journey to New Worlds, constitutes one of eight volumes that together make up the book titled Do Unto Earth. In this volume, author and journalist Penelope Jean Hayes poses questions to Pax, channeled by intuitive Carole Serene Borgens, about the likelihood of people colonizing other planets, and when and why. Plus, this conversation explores the secret lives of ETs.
A groundbreaking argument about the link between autism and ingenuity.
Why can humans alone invent? In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autism is as crucial to our creative and cultural history as the mastery of fire. Indeed, Baron-Cohen argues that autistic people have played a key role in human progress for seventy thousand years, from the first tools to the digital revolution.
How? Because the same genes that cause autism enable the pattern seeking that is essential to our species' inventiveness. However, these abilities exact a great cost on autistic people, including social and often medical challenges, so Baron-Cohen calls on us to support and celebrate autistic people in both their disabilities and their triumphs. Ultimately, The Pattern Seekers isn't just a new theory of human civilization, but a call to consider anew how society treats those who think differently.
