Author: Erin Elizabeth

For those of you who honestly believe you can live and thrive on a couple hours of sleep a night (by the way, your body isn’t really thriving and is NOT happy with you), you’ll be interested to know you aren’t alone- elephants need only three to four hours of sleep per night too, in order to be their happy elephant selves during the day. RELATED ARTICLES: Can’t sleep? Drink this and fall asleep almost immediately. Diseases that could be caused by your Lack of Sleep But what gives? They are far bigger than us and expend far more...

Italy’s top court of appeals ruled that a homeless man, sentenced to 6 months in jail and a €100 fine for stealing €5 worth of food, should be exonerated. The court wrote that “the right to survival prevails over property” and that the man was acting “in the face of the immediate and essential need for nourishment.” This is a breath of fresh air for progressive humanists that see a world of abundance, locked down by greed. Deriving morality from an interpretation of the law is a noble deed and perhaps we are out of our fear-state. Similar to the...

George Orwell is as accurate now as he was when 1984 was originally published, possibly even more so. George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the future. “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” Though many in the modern age have the will to bury their head...