The Pulse

  Ah! Don’t know about you, but just looking at that (somewhat terrifying) face makes us wonder what was done to it (or not done)! It doesn’t look happy does it? It could be some pain it is in. It ...

Ah, that famous line vets hear all too often, “But fluffy never showed any signs of pain.” Humans are usually obvious when they are in pain and show it well. Wincing and whining, grumpy or irritab...

Springtime is well under way. With it comes the vital refreshment of new beginnings, hope renewed and, of course, the urge to clean. As nature displays the triumphant beauty of a fresh start all a...

Ah, the glory of spring — the time of year when life emerges to the call of the light, plants break ground, bird song fills the air and our spirits lift in celebration of the return of the sun aft...

We’re sure you’re already well aware of many, many, reasons why you don’t want chronic stress in your life (aside from the obvious — that the experience itself just sucks). You know what else it su...

It’s that time of year parents hide coloured (and sometimes chocolate) eggs for their kids to find. We aren’t going to look into the complicated and overlapped history of the easter egg, easter sy...

Once, high in the jungles of Borneo, the community of pitcher plants faced a dilemma: an increasing lack of nutrient filled bugs — their main food source. In contemplating this problem, one pitcher...

We may think we’re hiding what’s going on within us, putting on the ‘It’s great. I’m great. Everything’s great’ act, keeping it all together and in control, but the heart knows. And if the heart kn...

Ah, our dear autocorrect at work— the perpetrator of so many awkward moments of misunderstanding these days. The opportunities in life for misunderstanding are as innumerable as ‘sands in the ocea...