Bare-Naked Philosophy
What happens in philosophy when science discovers facts about the mind – or about the brain? Nothing much. To paraphrase most mainstream philosophers, “science has nothing to teach philosophy.” Really?...
View ArticleChange of Heart
A few months ago there was a discussion on the Academy of Eating Disorders website on the pace of refeeding and weight restoration for sufferers of anorexia nervosa. Medical safety is always of...
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An Hour with Oliver Sacks and Danielle Ofri
Recently I watched one of the most fascinating interviews I have seen for a long time. True, I began with a positive bias as the interview was conducted by Danielle Ofri, and she was talking to Oliver...
View ArticleProjection and Identity
In the last blog we said the following, which will be a launching for what must be said next:It’s time to consider the possibility that there is a self—a part of us that is real, unique and essentially...
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Should you feel like a failure for quitting your job?
Interesting read of the day: Noah Berlatsky's defense of quitting your job in The Atlantic. Berlatsky, himself a grad school dropout turned writer, suggests that perhaps we need to stop talking about...
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Boredom - a very real road to addiction
As the saying goes... "An idle mind is the devil's playground." Anyone with too much time on their hands may find themselves in hot, troubled waters. People who tend to be bored may also be weary or...
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Four Steps to Relationship Repair With The H-E-A-L Technique
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.Audrey HepburnLove relationships are one of the greatest sources of happiness and meaning for human beings, yet also the cause of lasting sadness and...
View ArticleThinking About Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Earlier this month a law enforcement officer in Saskatchewan, Canada contacted me about how he could help an architecture firm plan a new school that, by design, might prevent crime from occurring in...
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The Impact of Parental Alienation on Children
As today (April 25) is Parental Alienation Awareness Day, I offer the first installment of a three-part series examining (1) the impact of parental alienation on children, (2) the effects of parental...
View ArticleHow Do You Know When You Are In Love?
If you ask someone to describe what being in love feels like, they will describe something that sounds like sexual passion and desire tinged with obsession. As far as our genes are concerned, sexual...
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Out for the Sperm Count
In The Children of Men, mystery author P.D. James imagines a future world, just eight years from now, in which the entire human population has become infertile and the last people born are all adults....
View ArticleFive Ways To Unconsciously Cut Calories
For those sick of counting calories and not losing an ounce of weight, there may be an easier way to drop some poundage. Environmental cues influence how much and how often we eat. By changing the...
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The Truth About ADHD
Over the past 15 years psychologists and neuroscientists have learned a lot about the brain and the disorder called ADHD. These findings have disproven many myths about ADHD, but a lot of this new...
View ArticlePublic Health or Public Relations?
Synthetic biology scored a public-relations coup this month, when pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced the start of commercial production of a "semisynthetic" version of artemisinin, the key...
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Squeeze a Ball With Your Left Hand to Increase Creativity
A flurry of new research is bringing the “Left Brain vs. Right Brain” debate back to life. The left cerebral hemisphere controls speech, academic, and analytical processes; the right cerebral...
View ArticleThoughts on Beauty
1.Beauty is revealed when you learn to see with your heart.The more educated your heart the greater beauty you can see.Therefore, beauty is revealed with age.2.You see beauty with your heart.You create...
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5 Tips to Sell More Online
When it comes to online shopping, the single biggest barrier we face in persuading people to buy, is lack of trust [1]. In the ‘real’ world, we rely on non-verbal trust cues from face-to-face...
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Agility is Not Just for Physical Phitness Anymore
Okay, there’s a book I’ve been avoiding: The Secrets of Happy Families, by Bruce Feiler. It’s bright and yellow and friendly looking, and it’s been sitting on my shelf for a few months, but I’ve...
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