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In his latest book, The Wim Hof Method, the extreme athlete aims to change the way people perceive consciousness and human potential

The Iceman cometh. His name is Wim Hof, and he’s bringing mind-body techniques he developed over the course of 40-plus years—during which he captured more than 20 endurance-based Guinness World Records—to his new health and spirituality title, The Wim Hof Method: Activate Your Full Human Potential.

This determined Dutchman has already found fame through several ...

National Geographic is on a mission to introduce a generation of readers to some impressive female heroes in the form of dynamic fictional characters and real-life role models.

Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad is an all-new series featuring a group of middle schoolers who solve STEM-minded mysteries, while Girls Can is a colorful compendium of admirable women from every walk of life, from Cleopatra to Oprah, and including some real-life Nat Geo scientists. It’s part of a plan to empower t...

#COVID19CorpsSalute: Senior Epidemiologist Katherine Farr, who specializes in implementing public-health solutions through digital technology, helped DC Health launch its exposure-notification app, DC Can (https://coronavirus.dc.gov/dccan). Farr worked with Google and Apple on this key contact-tracing project, which now has more than 214k downloads.

They’ve become known in Pennsylvania public-health circles as “The Super Tracers.” This tight-knit team of 10 COVID-19 Corps members didn’t know each other before they became part of the CDC Foundation’s initiative to assist local, state and other health departments staff up to fight the pandemic. But as the first paid contact tracers hired for the COVID-19 response in the state, they encountered process issues that quickly brought them together to develop solutions they could implement and p...

A Vermont COVID-19 Corps member investigated a COVID outbreak amongst migrant farmworkers at a local orchard and managed to curb the spread.

#COVID19CorpsSalute: Stationed in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), epidemiologist and informatician Emily Haanschoten created custom code that fully digitized the health department's data system and designed a study validating COVID-19 visitor guidelines to the westernmost US territory.

Paz and Maureen are former nurses, Lillian and Daniel are recent college graduates, Joanne’s back in the workforce after raising a family and Sanford’s been a well-known figure in Chicago public health circles for more than 25 years.

Now they’re bringing their varied backgrounds and talents to bear as members of the COVID-19 Corps, part of the CDC Foundation’s emergency mission to recruit, hire and train teams of public-health workers to act as case investigators and contact tracers for state...

When it comes to the devastating effects of COVID-19, it’s not just the infection itself that threatens our well-being, but it’s the emotional toll of the ongoing pandemic that’s hitting us all hard as well. The How Right Now initiative, made possible with support from the CDC Foundation, was specifically developed to provide information and tools to help reduce stress, increase coping skills, as well as to direct those in need to mental-health, social service and other helpful resources.

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Like many major U.S. cities, Detroit, MI, was hit hard early on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the first confirmed case in March 2020, the city found itself facing the largest COVID-19 caseload outside of the East Coast. But Detroit is also the home to a team of talented public-health professionals, and thanks to their efforts, along with those of their dedicated colleagues at the Detroit Department of Public Health, Detroit was able to flatten its curve and became a model for other citi...

Introducing the CRUSH COVID campaign to community-based organizations and alerting them to the CDC Foundation's ability to provide technical assistance and more.

Succeeding all too well where the 2019 Charlie’s Angels so miserably failed, this brightly-hued thrill ride is driven by several truly kick-ass action sequences and the star power and acting chops of its producer, Academy Award-nominee Margot Robbie, who plays Harley Quinn.

Jimmy Carter's Georgia Film Legacy On Display

Before Tyler Perry and Marvel turned Georgia into today’s uber-cool, ultra profitable film production capital of the South, there was Jimmy Carter and Burt Reynolds, whose efforts to get a little film called Deliverance shot in North Georgia planted the seeds for the state as a prime movie location. The duo tended those sprouts and solidified those roots in the late ‘70s with huge Georgia-based hits like The Longest Yard and Smokey and the Bandit....

Loving, capable adopters regularly get turned away because of unreasonable expectations by rescues and shelters. Many are updating their procedures to change that.

Home Depot Inspiration Guide developed for Creative Drive Agency, featuring a dozen apartment decorating tips.

A video buying guide created for Home Depot via Creative Drive Agency in 2019.