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10 Philosophical Quotes About Sport
"I wished I'd never said the thing...I meant the effort. I meant having a goal. I sure didn't mean for people to crush human values and morality." Vince Lombardi, talking about his oft-quoted...
View ArticleCan Men Be Shamed Into Marriage?
The United States Census Bureau found that in 2008 16% of American men between 40 and 44 had never been married, an increase of 150% over 1980 numbers. Dr. Carl Weisman, author of "So Why Have You...
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Don't Talk (or Listen) and Drive
By Luciana GravottaConversation is more than a simple distraction: It can activate parts of your brain involved in seeing and doing and interfere with vision and movement. These areas are highly...
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Social and Mechanical Reasoning Inhibit Each Other
I've got two questions for you. 1. Would water flow if there was a large hole in the tube? 2. Does he think that she is angry? Did your head feel any different while you were solving...
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Love, Eat, Heal
Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma’s favorite. It reminds me of her fiery Columbian spirit and the blue flames that blazed in her...
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Life With Depersonalization
This is the fourth post of the serial I and My Depersonalization. What do I do with my depersonalization? After my life has been ceased by an unknown disease of unreality, after I learned that this...
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Cannabis and Sleep
I often encounter patients who report that they regularly use cannabis – for sleep. Many swear by its ability to help them relax and fall into a deep restful sleep. Because most psychoactive drugs,...
View ArticleWhy the Stock Market Wants Obama
The investment community generally prefers the philosophy of economic conservatism to that of liberalism. Romney probably has a large lead among investors. Nevertheless, the markets prefer Obama....
View ArticleHome Sweet Home
Up and down the country, in the UK at least, parents will be receiving tearful telephone calls from their children that they happily packed off to university just two months ago. I know because we have...
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Is Willpower Energy or Motivation?
Anyone who has tried to break a bad habit has experienced the trouble with willpower. You want to stick to your diet, but you find yourself standing at a buffet filled with tempting desserts. You...
View ArticleLiving With A Disability - Part 3
I talked some in the last post about the unwanted gift that we receive when we have a disability. The gift is that we can see the world from a very different perspective. Having been born with what...
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How Do You Say Dog
Our grandson, Matty, looked up from playing with a model of a starship cruiser and asked me, "Do you know what the Klingon word for dog is?" Since artificial languages used in televised science fiction...
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Why Cheaters Win
Problems of cheating and fraud, in a wide variety of professions, have received much recent attention. Many scandals have involved banking (for example Libor manipulation, tax evasion, and the...
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Second Chances in the Midst of a Crisis
Turn on any television news channel and odds are you'll see the disastrous effects of Hurricane Sandy all along the east coast. I watched an interview with a woman whose home of forty years lay behind...
View ArticleStuart and Polly: Anything Else We Can Get You?
It’s hard to imagine our world without Stuart. That’s ironic because 15 years ago, it wouldn’t have been hard to imagine our world with Stuart.But he’s getting to the age where you don’t buy dog food...
View ArticleWhy Don’t More Hospitals Compete on Quality?
Go to the website of the Detroit Medical Center and you will learn that its facilities are ranked among the “nation’s best hospitals” by US News & World Report and that they have won other awards....
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Can we outsmart our painful performance anxieties?
Can the mere thought of school work cause pain? It might if you suffer from performance anxiety. A new brain study suggests that people with math anxiety may feel something like physical pain when they...
View ArticleMommy Ate All My Halloween Candy!
Last week, night time talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, offered American parents a few seconds of fame in exchange for tormenting their children. He suggested that the day after Halloween parents tell...
View ArticleBereavement can be traumatic
Western culture does not fully acknowledge how psychologically devastating bereavement can be.So it is always good to see new studies which help us understand bereavement. A fascinating new study in...
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