Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Liz Entman
When making food choices when we’re with friends, we tend to want to match characteristics that others can measure or rank, such as size or price, but feel free to go our own way on things like flavor or shape, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Cailin Riley
Kids are less likely to have concentration problems and behavioral issues if their parents make a greater effort to engage with their schooling earlier in the year, according to new research.
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- Written by: Kylie Baldwin
The numbers of women undergoing elective egg freezing across the Western world has increased rapidly over the past few years.
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- Written by: Aimée La Fountain
Breakups happen to friends, too. Here’s how to find closure, while preserving your heart and dignity.
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- Written by: Raven Digitalis
Empathy is everywhere. In many ways, empathy is the social glue that holds everybody together. Empathy is a social experience that involves feeling external emotional energy to the point of mirroring an emotion and taking it into one’s own experience.
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- Written by: Kindel Turner Nash
Because I conduct research about reading, parents often ask me the same question: “What can I do to help my child become a better reader?”
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- Written by: Daniel Hamlin
Schools across the country encourage parents to help their children with homework.
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- Written by: Maryam Mafi
The universality of a good story serves to demonstrate that we’re not so different from our counterparts across the globe, which in turn prompts us to empathize with the “other” to the extent that we will eventually feel as the “other”; thus, respect and empathy are the inevitable by-products of this process.
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- Written by: Kristen Parker
Teen girls experience relationship abuse at alarming rates, according to a new study that specifically focuses on reproductive coercion—pressure from a partner to get pregnant.
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- Written by: Judy Illes and Farhad R. Udwadia
Sex robots made headlines after American comedian Whitney Cummings brought out her very own lookalike robot for her Netflix special called Can I Touch It? RealBotix
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- Written by: Diana Lucia and Karen Moritz
It is well established that drinking alcohol during pregnancy can have detrimental effects on the developing foetus.
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- Written by: Alex Shashkevich
More heterosexual couples today meet online, research finds. In fact, matchmaking is now the primary job of online algorithms.
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- Written by: Lotje Hives and Tara-Lynn Scheffel
The beach offers a wide open playscape where children are fuelled by curiosity.
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- Written by: Cathy Holt
We are complex beings. Within each of us there are many, many aspects, some of which seem to be at war with others. We all have an Inner Critic: that voice that nags at us, puts us down, tells us we're not good enough. When we...
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- Written by: Lisette Schuitemaker
The American software consultant I interviewed told me about an exercise he did ages ago that has stayed with him his whole life. The participants in the workshop he was in were asked to write their own eulogy, then deliver it to the class, speaking about how they wanted to be remembered.
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- Written by: Robert Myers
In a manifesto posted online shortly before he went on to massacre 22 people at an El Paso Walmart, Patrick Crusius cited the “invasion” of Texas by Hispanics.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
Some people feel that they are limited by their genes, by what is encoded in their DNA. Studies show that identical twins raised in different environments have some strikingly similar tastes and behaviors. While that may be true, one must be careful not to use that as an excuse...
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- Written by: Darby Saxbe and Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook
Human breast milk is more than a meal – it’s also a clock, providing time-of-day information to infants.
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- Written by: Elena Merenda
The Lion King is a movie about a young lion cub named Simba, who idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and is eager for his own royal destiny.
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- Written by: Treena Orchard
When love, lust and all things in between come calling, dating apps appear to be the only way to meet new people and experience romance in 2019.
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- Written by: Marc A Zimmerman, et al
Injury is the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents, accounting for over 60% of all deaths in this group. Firearms are the second leading cause of death among U.S. children and adolescents, after car crashes. Firearm deaths occur at a rate over three times higher than drownings.
