Professor William Ayers via Wikimedia Commons

Bill Ayers: Obama should be put on trial for war crimes

Representative Jim Bridenstine screenshot

Republican mentions suffering of Jesus amid anti-abortion speech on House floor

Samantha Bee on LGBT bullying of Christians

Daily Show’s Samantha Bee explores the right’s ‘giant temper tantrum’ about LGBTs

Jessica Lynn Howell charged with murder and child abuse

Police: Infant died after mother invited pedophile boyfriend to rape child

Home » Topics » Ricard

French geneticist turned Tibetan monk declared world’s happiest man by scientists

This handout photograph released by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in September 2012, shows Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard sitting in a soundproof room and preparing for an electroencephalography (EEG) test at the EEG facility in the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison in 2008.

As he grins serenely and his burgundy robes billow in the fresh Himalayan wind, it is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested. The monk, molecular geneticist and confidant of the Dalai Lama, is passionately setting out why meditation can alter…

Read More