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It’s the one thing that appears on almost every New Year’s resolution list time and time again: dieting. Dieting is the bane of our existence and our obsession all wrapped into one neat little package. We love and hate it. We torture ourselves trying to create the perfect body, and while humanity has created amazing […]
The overview effect, Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Catalog… I was born in 1956 and remember when rocket ships went from dreams to reality. We saw them first on TV in black and white cartoons, then a few years later they were blasting off for real in color newscasts. As the technology to capture […]
Tristan Harris is an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities in order to make more money. He spent the last 3 years working as a design ethicist at Google focusing on how to design technology in ways that prevent billions of people’s minds from being hijacked by technology. Rather than focus optimistically on […]
Today’s world is powered by electronic devices. It is safe to say that screens are here to stay. Our days are not complete without our cell phones. Truly, most of us have married the internet. We have become bigamists. But how does our “marriage” with our screens affect relationships? Dr. James A. Roberts, a well-known author, […]
You hear people exclaim “It’s my OCD!” sometime because they want something to be done perfectly, want their tables at work to be neatly arranged or their clothes organized in their closet. But what is OCD? Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is defined as a mental health disorder where a person gets caught in a cycle of obsessions […]
Major US medical groups like the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association, and the National Institutes of Health verifies Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as a valid medical condition. A person suffering from ADHD may be hyperactive and have trouble paying attention. Because of these symptoms, doctors often recommend behavioral intervention or prescription drugs. However, some […]
IQ scores have been steadily declining for decades, and it’s not caused by genetics, according to a new study. The study was published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America by researchers from the University of Michigan. They used administrative register data with information on family relationships and […]
The wellbeing of Indigenous people is based around having the freedom and resources to practise cultural ways of being. While some of these can seem removed from those in the West – such as the lack of materialism, primacy of kin and a close relationship to the natural world – including them in mainstream culture […]
