Celebrating the global power of friendship to connect, heal, and inspire Every year on July 30, people around the world pause to celebrate one of life’s most cherished treasures: friendship. The International Day of Friendship, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2011, is more than a simple feel-good celebration. It’s a powerful reminder […]
Reading literary fiction is beneficial. It makes people more empathetic, socially perceptive and emotionally intelligent. That’s what a study entitled “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind,” published in Science, the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, shows. The research also indicates that reading popular fiction or serious non-fiction does not produce the […]
