Talking about Politics at Work
David Burkus :I was raised by parents in a generation where discussions of politics or money were taboo to all but very close friends. (Of...
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The Clash of Civilizations
Scott Atran :Part – IThe spread of substate and transnational forms of terrorism that target ordinary civilians for mass murder tears at the social and...
Research on Suicide
With more than three dozen people killed in mass shootings in Texas, Ohio, and California, many US politicians are proposing gun regulations in hopes of...
Infants can pick out leaders from bullies
Life Desk :Infants, by the age of two, have the potential to distinguish between the power asserted by a leader and a bully, finds a...
People Living With HIV But Dying Of TB
Bobby Ramakant :Every case of active tuberculosis (TB) disease comes from an individual with latent TB infection. And every new case of latent TB infection...
Just Your Luck
Marty Nemko :Speaking to Harvard’s 2019 graduating seniors, dean Rakesh Khurana asserted that Harvard grads don’t deserve their success. Rather, they are the benefits of...
Bangladesh To participate In
Life Desk :Bangladesh, for the first time, is going to participate at the World Skills Competition 2019, scheduled to be held during 22-27 this month...
The Purposeful Life Healthy, Wise And Not Too Wealthy
Susan Krauss Whitbourne :The idea that being healthy, wealthy, and wise is the key to happiness has a long tradition and was, in fact, the...
The Dark Side of Cell Phones
Glenn Geher :Humans did not evolve to live in large-scale societies. Being nomadic for the lion’s share of human evolutionary history, ancestral humans had important...
Aging and Exercise
Dena Kouremetis :There are times I feel I must have blinders on. I have opinions about things (especially aging, which is why I started this...
Invulnerables: The Origins of Resilience
Arash Emamzadeh :As I noted in a previous blog post on the subject, resilience has been conceptualized in five different ways: As good mental health,...
Friends with Scary or Negative Thoughts
Donald Altman :Did you count the number of thoughts you had today? If you laughed at that question or found it ludicrous to consider because...