‘Emotional support animals’ help explain how America is losing its mind

Rick Silva / AP Last week, United Airlines denied a woman’s attempt to bring a peacock on a flight as an emotional-support animal. The proliferation of pets on flights in symbolic of a larger problem with American society. There is a growing sense that we are entitled to have the world adapt to our preferences, instead […]

Mind Games: It's not easy being the gold-medal favourite

Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canada’s first Olympic medallist in the skeleton, went into the 2010 Games as the one to beat.  Landing on the podium in seven of eight World Cup events that season, she was the 2010 World Cup champion and the gold-medal favourite in Vancouver. She had won bronze at the 2006 Turin Olympics, and […]

Mind Games: Fear of failure — and success — is the great battle within

Imagine walking on a beam on the ground 30 centimetres in width and two metres in length. Not too hard — you just put one foot in front of the other and walk forward.   Now imagine walking on that same beam 10 metres above the ground. The apparatus hasn’t changed, yet all of a sudden it […]

Mind Games: Older athletes prove experience can be golden

In the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Itlay, Duff Gibson slid to the first gold medal for Canada in the skeleton.   What is even more remarkable is that he did it at the age of 39, setting the record for being the oldest person to win an individual gold medal at a Winter Games.   His 35-year-old teammate, Jeff […]

Mind The Gap 💰

BuzzFeed News has been leaked the audio of two of the BBC’s top-paid journalists John Humphrys and Jon Sopel in a hot mic conversation about their female colleague’s attempt to achieve equal pay. Humphrys, one of the main hosts of Radio 4’s flagship news programme Today, and BBC management dismissed the conversation as a “joke” […]

Mind The Vikings Is A City Builder Full Of Quirky Personalities!

Combine the macro level of management (city-building) with the micro level (people managing) and you’ll end up with Mind The Vikings. Players can look forward to discovering new lands and developing them to their liking, all while meeting the many different residents and their unique personalities! The strongest draw to the game is the pairing […]