Don’t worry about feeling sad: on the benefits of a blue period
In a Twitter account called So Sad Today, the American writer Melissa Broder has been sending out...
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Category: Health & Well-Being
What every dictator knows: young men are natural fanatics
Young men are particularly liable to become fanatics. Every dictator, every guru, every religious...
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Flip a switch and shut down seizures? New research suggests how to turn off out-of-control signaling in the brain
Rochelle Hines, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The brain is a precision instrument. Its function...
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Why advances in treating those with brain injuries require advances in respecting their rights
Joseph J. Fins, Cornell University Several years ago a father approached me, concerned about the...
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Picture this: why mental representations evolved
Let’s say you are offered a new job in a different city, and you need to figure out whether to...
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With pleasures so varied, we need a way to calculate delight
When we decide between alternative courses of action, an immediate consideration is whether our...
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Hierarchy of Suffering: Trauma as Currency in the Resettlement Process
For many, seeking asylum requires repeatedly recounting your story. Conflating persecution with...
Read MoreHow the marvel of electric light became a global blight to health
Light pollution is often characterised as a soft issue in environmentalism. This perception needs to change. Light at night constitutes a massive assault on the ecology of the planet, including us. It also has indirect impacts...
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The lifesaving power of gratitude (or, why you should write that thank you note)
An attitude of gratitude may relieve stress, which in turn may lead to better health....
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Down with the larks: on the virtues of sleeping like a sloth
In the sixth century, Pope Gregory I compiled an infamous list of seven deadly sins. Of these...
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Orwell knew: we willingly buy the screens that are used against us
Sales of George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have spiked twice recently,...
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Extreme stress in childhood is toxic to your DNA
Daniel R. Weinberger, Johns Hopkins University The real danger of separating children from parents...
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