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12 Tips for Surviving (and Thriving in) Expatriate Life | Active Mindfulness
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12 Tips for Surviving (and Thriving in) Expatriate Life. November 27, 2014. Life abroad is equal parts adventure and hard work. Moving to a new country is not easy. And can challenge even the most thick-skinned adventurer. As a psychologist, mother and weathered survivor of a move abroad. I hope I can offer you a number of tips that will help you to flourish in your new expatriate home. 1 Keep your sense of humor. 2 Learn the language. 3 Find a group. 4 Find your niche. Are you a gym rat? This is an insi...
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Guided Practice: 20-Minute Body Scan | Active Mindfulness
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Guided Practice: 20-Minute Body Scan. April 17, 2015. One of the foundational practices of mindfulness meditation is the “Body Scan,” introduced by Jon Kabat-Zinn in the early days of his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. If you haven’t tried it, this link. Will take you to me guiding a 20-minute version of the practice. Photo courtesy of Steven Leonti). Mindfulness based stress reduction. Life Abroad as a “Trailing Spouse”.
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Life Abroad as a “Trailing Spouse” | Active Mindfulness
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Life Abroad as a “Trailing Spouse”. June 14, 2015. Instead of “trailing” how about “accompanying” spouse? Trailing spouse : It’s a term that makes me grimace. The idea that there is one partner in the relationship that trails (by virtue of the word). The other. To me, the term trailing spouse brings with it a feeling of having less power, less say, less importance. That this person’s capacity is defined by their relationship to another person, that is, the non-trailing person. Thanks to globalization, mo...
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Our Wateriest Episode! | Walkabout the Galaxy
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September 29, 2014. Catherine Neish from the Florida Institute of Technology joins Josh and Addie for a recap of a number of exciting developments in planetary science including the arrival of the Mars Orbital Mission, or MOM, from India, hot on the heals of the MAVEN mission. We agreed that Mars now has altogether too many spacecraft. Ever wonder what a TRL is? MAVEN at Mars: Where Did All the Good Stuff Go? Ghost Stars and Skivvies! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published.
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A Clockwork Storm! | Walkabout the Galaxy
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April 20, 2015. Catch up on past episodes and listen to our latest: A Clockwork Storm! The story I heard is that the title for A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. Was chosen when a friend of Burgess read the novel and said it made about as much sense as a clockwork orange. In A Clockwork Storm! The latest episode of WtG, Josh, Addie and Tracy eventually get around to talking about two cool discoveries from the Cassini mission at Saturn: the planet itself has giant storms on a clockwork schedule.
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Zombie Star and Rosetta Too! | Walkabout the Galaxy
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Zombie Star and Rosetta Too! August 11, 2014. Here are the lyrics. To that Insane Clown Posse song where they call me a liar. And seriously, check out these pics of the comet from Rosetta:. Close-up detail of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The image was taken by Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera and downloaded today, 6 August. The image shows the comet’s ‘head’ at the left of the frame, which is casting shadow onto the ‘neck’ and ‘body’ to the right. Rosetta and the Rubber Ducky Comet. A Conversatio...
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Wham! Go the Planets | Walkabout the Galaxy
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September 9, 2014. We recorded Episode 17 on the day of Joan Rivers’ death, which inspired us to imagine science fashion police. On the science front, Josh, Addie and Tracy talk about this discovery. Zombie Star and Rosetta Too! MAVEN at Mars: Where Did All the Good Stuff Go? One thought on “Wham! Go the Planets”. September 10, 2014 at 11:26 pm. I like the idea of a fashion police for the AGU. No need to be mean, just funny. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published.
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Dawn arrives at Ceres. March 2, 2015. Josh, Addie and guest Jim Cooney discuss the observation by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft of two mysterious white spots on the largest asteroid in the solar system, Ceres. Could they be white monoliths? That’s what we’re rooting for. Water ice is another possibility. Learn about Dawn and what color that damn dress is on this episode of Walkabout the Galaxy. For more about Dawn, JPL has the goods. Close Black Holes and Second Life. January 20, 2015. Geoengineering at the AGU.
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Geoengineering at the AGU | Walkabout the Galaxy
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Geoengineering at the AGU. January 14, 2015. We kick off the new year with a look back at the 2014 Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, featuring some 25,000 scientists and at least a handful of not-so-scientists. In episode 27, “Geoengineering and the AGU” we tackle such difficult questions as “which is worse: imagined pollution to prevent the damage from actual pollution, or actual pollution? Close Black Holes and Second Life. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Required fields are marked *.
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July 22, 2014. Josh and Addie are flying an experiment on NASA’s “weightless wonder” this week from Ellington Field in Houston. Learn about our experiment here. We’re looking forward to bringing you the details on the next episode of Walkabout the Galaxy when we return next week! Fermi Paradox and Goldilocks. July 16, 2014. Josh and Tracy tackle the Fermi Paradox in Episode 13 which also features discussion of the Prime Directive, South Park, and Monty Python. Check out this song. June 23, 2014. In this,...
