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We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare.
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Ten days ago Kate Raue was moved from Rangipapa to Te Whare Ahuru. For privacy reasons Rangipapa weren’t telling anyone where she’d gone, only that she’d ‘left the Unit’. I thought at the time that the construction of the explanation was an interesting one so I had my doubts about whether she’d been released to […]
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Robyn shares her personal story and how it inspired her current path as a ‘Real Food’ evangelist. Grounded in a successful Wall Street career that was more interested in food as good business than good-for-you, this mother of four was shaken awake by the dangerous allergic reaction of one of her children to a ‘typical’ […]
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Jay Coen Gilbert shares his vision to harness the power of business to solve society’s problems through B Corporations, a new standard labeling socially and environmentally responsible companies. B Corps will help corporations be profitable while solving society’s problems. The B stands for ‘beneficial’.
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Erin Gruwell is an educator and president of ‘The Freedom Writers Foundation’. When Erin landed her first job at Wilson High School in Long Beach, CA, she discovered many of her students had been written off by the education system and deemed ‘unteachable’.
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