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Swarm of 20,000 bees chase car around UK for 2days after 'queen gets trapped in boot' (photos/video) A bizarre and extremely dangerous situation occurred in South Wales this week as a swarm of bees, about 20,000 followed an oblivious driver home for two miles after a queen bee got trapped in the boot of the car. National Park ranger, Tom, noticed the bees swarm and called on Bee collectors to come handle the situation before someone got hurt... Tom, 41, told Wales Online: “It was spectacular. I was driving through when I spotted the big brown splodge. A lot of people were really amazed by it, cars were slowing down and people were taking pictures of it. “I was a little bit concerned, with it being in the middle of town outside a pub, that someone might do something stupid and get hurt or do something stupid and hurt the bees,” he said.   The woman who had the car the bees followed, Carol said: "It was incredible really. I've never seen anything ...

Hungry crocodile has a wholesome way around tough tortoise shell (photos) Faced with huge teeth and gaping jaws, one tortoise played it smart and retreated into the sanctuary of its armour-like shell as hungry crocs fought over it. Its tactic wasn't the smartest after all as one croc battled the others away and swallowed the tortoise whole. The images were taken by part time photographer Lisl Moolman, 42, at South Africa's Krueger National Park while on a family holiday. She said: 'I was sitting at the dam, sightseeing and watching animals as they came to drink. As is the norm, crocodiles sunbathe at this dam. Everything was quiet and tranquil, until another visitor attracted my attention showing me that a crocodile just caught a leopard tortoise and was moving into the water at great speed.  She added: 'I saw a crocodile at the water's edge moving into the water with high speed, a leopard tortoise clamped tightly between its jaws. The tortoise she...

Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D. Fulfillment at Any Age 10 Ways to Know it’s Time to Leave Recognize the signals that tell you it’s over, and then go Posted May 24, 2016   You’ve gone to a friend’s house for the evening, and the hours have seemed to fly by. Wrapped up in conversation, listening to music, or enjoying a leisurely meal, you wish you could stay even later. However, a little voice in your head is nagging at you and telling you to say your thank-you’s and bid farewell. Should you respond to this voice or not? Unless what you’re invited to has a fixed end point, you may worry that your host will feel insulted if you announce your intention to leave prematurely. Now imagine a situation at work where you’ve been called into the boss’s office to report on a new proj...

Claudia M Gold M.D. Child in Mind Helping Children Succeed: Brain Science in the Classroom Paul Tough's new book shows why we cannot "teach" character and resilience Posted May 25, 2016   Two days after I had the pleasure of interviewing  Paul Tough  about his thought-provoking new book Helping Children Succeed , I gave a talk about the explosion of new science showing us how listening changes the brain. While the audience was primarily psychotherapists, a number of educators had a pressing question. How do we apply this knowledge in the classroom? This is exactly what Tough aims to answer. In our conversation, he elaborated on his process of discovery, following the publication of his highly acclaimed book How Children Succeed , that grit, curios...

Susan Newman Ph.D. Singletons 5 Top Parenting Challenges and How to Deal with Them Parenting tweaks that curb children’s annoying behaviors. Posted May 24, 2016     Source: Stuart Miles/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Rebecca Eanes, creator of Positive-Parents.org asked some 9,000 parents what behaviors in their children upset them and made them “lose their cool.” The ideas she has for disciplining and moving away from conventional parenting will go a long way in minimizing the upsetting challenges the parents reported and that almost all parents face at some point: aggression, tantrum throwing, whining, back talk and not listening. In her new book Positive Parenting: An Essential Guide,  Eanes trades punishment for solutions and presents new ways of disc...

Marty Nemko Ph.D. How To Do Life Be a Creative or Be More Practical? An internal debate on one of life's key dilemmas. Posted May 25, 2016   Source: Pexels, Public Domain   One of life’s great dilemmas is whether to pursue your creative outlet as a career or to make it a sideline and pursue a career with better prospects for a decent, stable living. Perhaps you’ll gain some clarity from this internal debate. PERSON: In my bones, I’m a creative. I'd love to make my living writing novels, stories, even screenplays. ALTER EGO: But so would millions of other people. So, supply and demand means most of them starve. Why not write stuff that would get you paid: catalog copy, annual reports, or nonprofit fundraising letters? PERSON: Business writing is so muc...

Marianna Pogosyan Ph.D. Between Cultures How Does Culture Affect Our Happiness? Happiness and its many tastes Posted May 24, 2016 Source: Adrianna Calvo/Stocksnap.io Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.  Aristotle Within the framework of psychological research on happiness, a happy person is characterized as someone who “has pleasant feelings most of the time, and feels satisfied with his/her life overall” (Oishi & Gilbert, 2016, p. 54). One of the gifts of cross-cultural travel is the glimpse into other ways of happiness. We all want to be happy. Yet, with a deepened intimacy with a culture comes the recognition that happiness – an emotion that many theorists consider the most universal of emotions – has its own distinct connotations and circumstances when observed through a different cultural lens. The ...