Man leaves successful career in the city to live like a hobbit in a rabbit hole in the woods… says he’s loving life

A former Russian lawyer named Yuri Alexeev got sick of his busy, high-stress life in the city. So one day, he quit and dug himself a “rabbit hole” 60 miles outside of Moscow.

He lives there with a pet white rabbit and now refers to himself as “a human living on planet Earth.”

Tiny home from the HGTV show Tiny House, Big Living

My family and I have been happier than ever since we moved into a tiny home six months ago. Below are seven ways we’re living larger in a smaller space:

1. It saves money. Tiny homes are a fraction of the cost of the average American house, and they cost less to heat, cool and maintain.

Turns out people – like plants – can get nourishment directly from the sun, and not just Vitamin D.

A documentary called Eat the Sun follows a young man on his journey into the world of sun-gazing, an ancient practice that involves staring directly into the sun for up to 45 minutes at a time.

A clip from a new PBS series called Spy in The Wild shows an orangutan sawing through tree branches. The curious apes apparently learned the skill by watching nearby humans and then borrowing their tools.

Spy in the Wild features look-alike animal robots spy on wild animals in their natural habitats to discover their “natural” behaviors. The series premieres Feb. 1.

In a clip from the new documentary film Human, an aboriginal Australian man says his people never used words like “please” or “thank you” or “mine” until recently:

Think you need a reason to be happy? Think again. Happiness is a choice, says breatharian and spiritual teacher Ray Maor:

The ag industry just got caught feeding cows tonnes of Skittles. Hundreds of thousands of red Skittles were found spilled on a rural Wisconsin highway January 18. It was later revealed the truck that spilled the candy had been on its way to a local dairy farm:

Psychedelic medicine, long taboo, is moving rapidly toward the mainstream. The “gateway” medicine —marijuana — recently became legal in 33 states, and now doctors at prestigious medical institutions are studying the effects of magic mushrooms and ecstasy on depression and anxiety with fantastic results.

The 2800 citizens of Auroville, India, have thrived for 50 years without money, religion or government