While social media outlets have made it easier for people to deactivate their accounts during the week, you can also use the fast-paced environment of social media to work to your advantage. Why not use the time you spend online to meet your long-term goals and ambitions rather than just living in the moment? [ … ]
In the first seven years of this century we achieved as much in terms of technological change as in all of the 20th century, and we continue to leapfrog innovation. The pace of “penetration,” or the amount of time it takes for a new technology to be used by 50 million people, is unprecedented. [ … ]
Most of us would like to have a better memory. We imagine our lives would be better — simpler, faster, easier — if we could recall the things that slip our minds on a daily basis and, increasingly, as we get older. But journalist Joshua Foer took the task more seriously than a passing whim. After witnessing [ … ]
For a long time, scientists believed that subjective stress — our feelings of pressure and anxiety — was somehow always inextricably linked to the hypothalamus. Now, researchers are less confident that such is always the case, and that the neurobiological origin of subjective stress could come from somewhere else [ … ]
As a writer, I tend to cover a wide range of topics, and in the process, I usually get to learn something new. One of these topics is music. Every once in a while, I get to write an album review; doing so allows me to familiarize myself with the artists. This week, I learned about Annamaria Pinna, lead singer [ … ]
Lately, a serious discussion about systemic racism in the United States has finally become front and center in the public sphere, which caused me to reflect on a classic discrimination experiment done at the end of the 1960s by an elementary schoolteacher. Jane Elliott was ironing a teepee for a classroom activity [ … ]
On August 9, 2014, the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, ignited long-standing racial tensions throughout the Midwestern city. A riot erupted at a candlelight vigil between the protesters calling for justice and the local police [ … ]
Lucy, the small primate who once roamed the valleys of Tanzania some 3 million years ago, was our remote ancestor — but chances are she spent much of her life in trees, with limbs adept for leaping across branches. It was only as we began to leave the trees that our brains grew larger; increasingly becoming more [ … ]
In many countries across the planet, U.S. included, the elderly in nursing homes have found themselves on total lockdown during the pandemic — to protect their health, the thinking went. And they were not the only ones. In hospitals coronavirus patients spend hours sealed off from anyone else, completely alone. [ … ]
Putting the care of your health into the hands of a primary care doctor takes trust and some research. No one wants to deal with a doctor that makes them uncomfortable. You want to have the highest level of confidence. The challenge comes when trying to wade through your choices to find the physician that [ … ]
We should all remember that social expectations are a product of the brain, so is our judgment, and our will to rise above these expectations. We have the power to define who we are — from what we see in the mirror to who we aspire to be. [ … ]
From the early childhood years on through old age, scientists have learned that the brain adapts itself to the challenges facing it and discards connections which are not reinforced through mental activity. Learning how to effectively stimulate brain growth — which continues all through adulthood [ … ]
Many cultures recognize the importance of gut health — but recently it’s attracted the attention of the medical world as well. Scientists are now discovering that the gut may influence our thinking, behavior, and even mental well-being. The state of our insides could in fact shape the way we interact with the outside [ … ]
Tamra Olsen-Harris has her mother’s eyes, her father’s smile, her grandmother’s name, and her great-great-great-grandfather’s trauma print. Tamra is 12 and lives in a distressed urban area in southwest Michigan. Along with 10 other young people from her neighborhood, she volunteered to participate [ … ]
In art, literature, or science, it’s an elusive question: how do you create something new? How do you get past a block or solve a seemingly impossible problem? Well, putting it aside and sleeping on it just might help. “Sleeping on it” has led to many famous inventions and artistic creations. [ … ]
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