Sadness can draw out people’s creative side
An extensive study of British artists and writers revealed that highly creative people often suffer from a mood disorder The data confirmed what letters, diaries and...
An extensive study of British artists and writers revealed that highly creative people often suffer from a mood disorder The data confirmed what letters, diaries and...
One of my students, a bright and engaged student, came to see me because she was troubled: she was addicted to her many electronic gadgets The first thing she does upon waking...
Idealism has a very bad press Idealism is seen as innocence ignoring great moral evil, naiveté allowing wickedness Idealism is seen simply as an empty vessel We slouch toward...
Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead wrote in his book, The Aims of Education, “ and the gift which the university has to offer all students is the very old one of...
Empathy vs. cruelty: evaluating Philip Zimbardo’s 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, intended to assess the psychological implications of institutional systems within criminal imprisonment
Understanding the natural attachment to newspaper indulgence
Contributed Image Daily, threats of nuclear war, bio-terrorism, Ebola and other diseases are very real in our world, but most Americans are apparently unaware of another disease...
Graphic by Fani Hseih “Keeping up with the Joneses” — what a supremely evocative saying, suggesting many different meanings Does the “keeping up” suggest struggling...
Unraveling the philosophies of an iconic Russian novelist and how his words can help our lives
In response to the alarming infant-mortality rate, the New York Foundling Hospital opened in 1869, and is one of the oldest social service agencies in North America It was then...