Round one was only the beginning—now it’s time for the real fight. Mortal Kombat 2 enters the arena with bigger battles, stronger characters, and enough brutal action to keep fans cheering from start to finish. As someone who appreciates a good mix of nostalgia, spectacle, and pure cinematic chaos, I was ready to test whether…
Magpies were a common sight in my childhood garden hopping round the lawn and were never given a second thought. Only in my twenties did a superstitious friend start to make me wary. One day the unusual sight of a magpie sitting on the back of a sheep (like a tick bird on a rhino)…
by Bill Gates: Andy Puddicombe has written a great guide to focusing your thoughts… I stopped listening to music and watching TV in my 20s. It sounds extreme, but I did it because I thought they would just distract me from thinking about software. That blackout period lasted only about five years, and these days…
by Jameson Dow : Perhaps you’ve heard the news – automakers across the industry are canceling EV investments, taking tens of billions in losses in response to a claimed lack in customer demand for EVs (even as EV sales in fact continue to rise globally and gas car sales have peaked). A new analysis by…
by Sarah Kuta: The self-taught singer-songwriter died on October 4 at her home in Tennessee.. Loretta Lynn, the country music icon who chronicled the lives of working-class women, has died peacefully in her sleep at age 90. When the country music star suspected her husband was cheating on her, she wrote an upbeat tune warning the other woman…
Awaken: It is an honor to spend this time with you. I would like to start with the rather profound notion of what it means to awaken… Is this the same as what you mean, when you speak of enlightenment or self-realization? And also, is this our ultimate purpose? Gandhi: Man’s ultimate aim is the…
Every year more than 30 million microwave ovens are sold… AWAKEN is proud to announce a new partnership with John and Ocean Robbins and the Food Revolution to bring our readers Summits, Seminars and Masterclasses on health, nutrition and Earth-Conscious living. Sign Up Today For 2026 Food Revolution Summit And there’s no question they can…
Asbolus in Greek mythology was a seer who could read omens and portents in the flights and calls of birds. He is said to have led a stampede of centaurs which caused the death of Pholus, and the fatal wounding of the immortal Chiron as Hercules defended himself by firing off poisoned arrows. The minor…
Can you feel it? That first flicker of summer—the one that sets in as soon as long weekends, backyard dinners, and sun-soaked afternoons are within reach? Memorial Day will be here before we know it, bringing with it the unofficial start of summer and all the seasonal foods we wait for all year: juicy watermelon,…
Hiiii! Happy Friday! How are you?? I hope that you’ve had a wonderful week. There’s been a lot going on around here! We had three weeks of travel – Las Vegas, El Paso for the BTS concert and I went to NYC for our mastermind last week – and Liv graduated from 8th grade! P…
