Featured Stories
Curated Collection #69
Chosen stories from experienced writers for avid readers
Dear Readers and Writers,
We selected interesting, engaging and informative stories to give avid readers a quick taste from our diverse and inclusive publication ILLUMINATION on Medium.
Gratefully, more than 15,000 writers contribute to our publications therefore we never run out of high-quality stories. We included chosen stories by the editor of Technology Hits to the end of this post. You may also check great stories in our featured collection from the last three days. We keep our featured collections in a single post titled Meta Collection of Featured Stories.
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Here are the last three collections full of interesting, engaging, and informative stories covering numerous topics.
The Last Three Collections by ILLUMINATION
We believe you find valuable and enjoyable pieces on the new collection and previous collections.
Featured Stories from ILLUMINATION Today
What We Know about Nootropics & Why They Matter Dr Mehmet Yildiz
How Albert Found the Direct Path to Enlightening Moments Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Finding Balance Dr. Stacey Maples
Questions and Answers for the Top 30 Business Analyst Interviews Douis Med, PhD
How to Access Secret Knowledge Few Others Use and Get Smarter Faster Ayodeji Awosika
How I Type Really Fast (350 Words Per Minute) Matt Lillywhite
What Computer Games Mean to Me and Why I Play Them Illumination YouTube Coordinator
War: What Is It Good For? Melinda Blau
I Failed the Carnivore Diet. Auré
Higher Intake of This One Oil Could Lower Your Risk of Mortality Ange Dim
Is Drinking Fruit Juice Good For You? Lanu Pitan
The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Knee-Jerk Reactions Lawson Wallace
How to Lose Weight With Proven Techniques Alexandros Roumpos
How Politics and Nationalism are holding back Space Exploration Antonio Melonio's Cosmos
How To Make Your Complete To-Do List To Feel Great at the Beginning of Your Freelancer Life Ayşe Kübra Kuyucu
If you have warm and good people around you just keep them close! Bogdan Munteanu
Bend, but Don’t Break Brooke Ramey Nelson
Haiku Humanity Brooklyn Muse
How I Manage My Medium Content With Notion and Why You Should Too (Free Template Included) Burk
Raising a Child That is a Empath — What you need to know. Cee Cee
Stop Pissing on The Present Moment if you Want to Find Happiness Chirry Kim
Is Domestic Violence Unnatural for Men? Coke Francis
Self Limiting Questions That You Ask Yourself And A Proper Answer To Each One Daniel Mesa
The Concorde Effect in Everyday Life Daniele Quero, PhD
Daily Writers Who Write for Money are Phoney Don Martin
How To Stop Judging People So Easily Eduard Sebastian
Loss Compounded Elizabeth Emerald
5 Of The Most Expensive NFTs Ever Sold ella graysun
I’m Scared of Letting Go of my Good Behavior Evelin Mercedes
The Sadness Of Suicide Among Young People Floyd Mori
Solidarity and technology in the war in Ukraine Francesco Carrubba
Feelings And Emotions In The Aftermath Of The Flood In Eastern Australia 2022 Franzi Kinzel
Shamila’s World Gerad Carrier
Inner Peace is Attainable — Here Is How Gereon Wellmann
10 Easy Ways To Boost Your Energy Gokhan Yalcuk
America, Money, and Madness. Harry Hogg
Everyone Wants to Work Henry Corrigan
5 Seconds Can Change Your Life Hope
Smile at Last Irene Hernandez
4 Books to Read For Better Understanding Of Ukrainian Context Israrkhan
Polarisation James Gwynne
Pitcairn Island — So Near Yet So Far James Marinero
Should I Scrape My Dirty Bottom? James Marinero
Nietzche Wrote That Great Thoughts Are Conceived While Walking. Janice Macdonald
Stealth Articles are Inspirational Jeff Herring
What Your Political Affiliation Says About Your Sex Life Joe Duncan
Self Actualisation — Success and Fulfilment Joe Garfield
Keeping & Finding Yourself through Writing John Ross
Some Sure-Fire Ways To Develop Writing Topics John Teehan
The Genetics of Politics: A Flawed Concept of Power John Worthington
Huggles (Pets Count), Massages And Orgasms — Oh My! KL Simmons
The Ugly Truth About Gas Prices! Leonard Tillerman
Cari Laque on the Joe Pags Show Needs to GO NOW!!! Lorrae G.
Does Laughing Loud and Often Mean You’re a Happy Person? Lorrae G.
I am so sick and tired of articles about how to make money; how much money you’ve made; what to… Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
The Toxic Teacup: We Should All Just Learn To Say No Mehak Aga
The Subversive Delight In The Things You Hate: How to Feel Gratitude When You Don’t Mercedes O'Leary
Own Your Morning Routine To Elevate Your Life: 5 Ideas To Start Your Day Better. Michael Lim
How walking extends life Mick McIntyre
5 Social Media Tools You Should Know About MoneyCanWorkForYou
Financial Independence Ms Fischer
Why Our Aim Should be Fighting For Health? Mukul varshney
Build Your Chest at Home Nasar Karim
Story Of “Failed Abortion” Neera Mahajan
The Thing Is … That’s Not How It Went! Nick Stockton
Dating the Lioness Nicole Higginbotham-Hogue, Author on Amazon
I Gained 2.4K Followers On Medium In A Month — Here’s What I Did Nicole Linke
Surprising and Easy Ways To Spot a Manipulative Person Nicole Waite
Peter Benjamin Parker: A Tragic Hero Ning Choi
Global Education Week: What You Need To Know Nora
Grappling With Identity: Why I Consider Myself a 1.25-Generation Immigrant Noran Azmy
Why Purpose-Led Marketing Might Be Good for Optics but Bad for Business Noya Lizor
How Did I Earn $25 For 96 Reads From Vocal.media? Oguz Bayata
How Did I Earn $25 For 96 Reads From Vocal.media?
I seriously couldn’t believe it either…
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Positive and Uplifting News Øivind H. Solheim
3 Things I Gained Writing on Medium Patricia Haddock
What You Need To Forgive Patricia Ross
Sending Money to Ukraine via Airbnb Paul Coogan
The Art Of Doing Hard Things Prince Verma
Create Videos In Minutes Priyanka Rana
“Believe in Yourself” Is The Worst Advice Ever and Here’s Why Rafay Hiraj
3 Best Ways To Make Money Online With Email Marketing Campaigns Richard Appiah
In the Web3 World, Focus on NFTs, not Cryptocurrency. Richard Bruschi
4 Best Ways to Exercise While Eating Healthily Richard Health Talks
3 Productivity Tactics To Get Your Todo List Done Everyday Sah Kilic
Expo 2020 Dubai: You Changed the Way I See This World Sara Marium
3 Super Smart Ways Anyone Can Save Money Sara Moton
3 Super Smart Ways Anyone Can Save Money
You just have to be willing to put in the effort
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5 Powerful Ways to Stand Out as a Content Creator among Million others Sarvam Fating
There Is a War On Scott-Ryan Abt
15 Highly Atrocious Racist Things I Have Heard in Different Parts of the World Shireen Sinclair
Give Yourself a Break When You Start Building A New Habit Spencer Ellis
How I Miserably Failed My 30-Day Challenge Sufyan Maan, M.Eng
48 Ways To Practice Micro Self-Care Habits In Your Everyday Life Sydney Koel
What Should Writers Sell to Make Money? Tavian Jean-Pierre
Hand-Picked Articles #37 Technology Hits
Perfect Apartment Checklist Texas
How to Regain Resilience and Self-Determination With Dopamine Fasting The Sinfeld Times
An Introduction To A fictional Space Journey The Universe and Life
The Healing Balm of Black Music Vanessa Gallman
The Word of The Day: Change Vickie Trancho
3 Medium Hacks Answered In 3 Minutes-Start Making $$$ Now Viraj Randev
How to Fix Your Messy Love Relationship Wangga Kharisnu
Why Your Small Business Needs a Blog Zianna Weston
Podcasts That I Listen to Every Week Zianna Weston
Thank you for reading these stories published today. We will present more stories tomorrow. You might also check previously featured stories from our collections.
Hand-Picked Collections by Technology Hits
Editor of Technology Hits publication shares collections of reading from ILLUMINATION’s curated lists daily in addition to Synergy and Illumination Book chapters. We appreciate efforts and contributions of our editors. They believe that amplifying outstanding stories is valuable for both writers and readers.
Here are the links to the last five hand-picked collections. You might subscribe to Technology Hits to be notified on these hand-picked collections posted regularly.
You can find the previous versions at this link.
You might check our new publication called “ILLUMINATION on YouTube”. Its purpose is to give voice to YouTubers on Medium and allow Medium writers to introduce their YouTube channel. Social media content writers and YouTubers are welcome to join this exciting publication. This pub is owned by Illumination YouTube Coordinator. Details are in this story.
Selected Stories from Previously Featured Stories
Invitation to Write for ILLUMINATION on YouTube Publication Illumination YouTube Coordinator
Magnesium Is Not Just Another Mineral Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Reading the Bible in a Year Has Not Been Conducive to Spiritual Growth Cathy Chapman, PhD
How Reading Scientific Research Can Improve Your Writing: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben Rutt, PhD
Seeing The Bourgeois Revaluation in Literature Ellen Clardy, PhD #economy
Bolstered Dr. Fatima Imam
Does Optimism Stink as Bad as Pessimism? Amy Sea
Three Tips to Prevent & Treat Obesity Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
My Most Cherished Moment Working on “The West Wing” TV Show David Gerken #life-lessons
Squeeze the Juice Out of the Present Stop Daydreaming About the Future Ayodeji Awosika #self-improvement
The True Story Of The Confederacy Moving To Brazil Matt Lillywhite
Three Tips to Improve Cardiovascular Health Dr Mehmet Yildiz
A Coat of Time Arthur G. Hernandez
Real Estate Agents Can Be the Worst Humans in the World Tim Denning
Why You Should Enjoy Social Media But Not Get Addicted To it Dr. Preeti Singh
Three Tips to Emotional Regulation Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Meet Lanu Pitan
Establishing Utopian America Qadir Abdus-Sabur, Ph.D.
Beware the Foot-Licking and Tooth-Pulling Demons from Persia Brian Loo Soon Hua
How I Earned $360 and 6,800 Views From A Single Story Viktor Marchev
Read This When You Want To Make Money Via Investing Richelle Délia, PhD
How I Healed Abdominal Bloating and Distension Dr Mehmet Yildiz
On Trauma & Addiction: Lessons from a Defensive Iceberg and His Oversized Hat Dr. Cort Dorn-Medeiros
Shocking Stats About Non-Communicable Diseases Dr Mehmet Yildiz
WHY are you asking me this? Dr Andrea Polzer
Times Change From Good Old Stiff Neck Ties To modern Gorpcore Dr. Preeti Singh
Meet Julius Evans by ILLUMINATION
Meet Sufyan Maan by ILLUMINATION
Trending Stories on Publication
Three Tips to Eliminate Insulin Resistance and Shrink Waistline Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Five Tips to Melt Visceral Fat and Have a Defined Belly Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Six Lifestyle Habits to Skyrocket Fat Loss Dr Mehmet Yildiz #health
Fasting Can Change Brain Chemistry Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Five Tips to Slow Down, Lose Fat, and Enjoy Life Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Reasons Why My (European) Husband and I Will Eventually Leave America Anastasia Frugaard
Thank you for reading these engaging stories.
Meet Our Editors
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Helpful References for New Writers
Science-Based Therapeutic Value of Expressive Writing for Mental Health
What I Learned After Publishing 1,010 And Reading 100,000 Stories on Medium
7 Tips for Freelance Writers Dealing with Chronic Stress Effectively
Short-Form Stories Not For Income But For Visibility. Think Of Them As A Tripwire
Improving the Quality of Writing Using an Editorial Checklist
Copyright Matters: Zero tolerance to plagiarism on ILLUMINATION
The Joy of Selling 1,000+ Books In A Month With Minimal Investment
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