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: Michael J. O'Brien and Izzat Alsmadi, Texas A&M
The rise of digital communication has made it increasingly difficult to distinguish between misinformation, disinformation, and hoaxes. This article explores their definitions, historical context, and the impact of disinformation campaigns, particularly in cases like the University of Missouri protests, highlighting the challenges of navigating today's complex information landscape.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Seven prime ministers in roughly ten years. A housing crisis nobody can solve. A Brexit that promised sunlit uplands and delivered a trade barrier at Dover. Britain is not having a bad decade. Britain is having a reckoning it has been postponing since roughly 1945, and the bill is finally due.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Alan Greenspan spent decades as the most powerful economist on earth, genuflecting at the altar of Ayn Rand and insisting that banks would regulate themselves because self-interest was its own kind of wisdom. Then the 2008 financial crisis happened, and he sat before Congress and admitted, more or less, that he had been wrong. It was a remarkable moment of honesty. It just came about twenty years too late.
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- Written by: Stephan A. Schwartz
The contrasting worldviews in the U.S. highlight a significant divide in values, impacting family wellness and social outcomes. Research indicates that progressive values correlate with better health, education, and lower rates of child abuse, while conservative values often lead to detrimental effects on family stability and child welfare. Understanding these differences is crucial for fostering social wellness.
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
In today’s world of misinformation, knowing how to identify credible sources is vital. By practicing mindful source evaluation and applying the CRAAP Test, you can separate fact from bias, truth from manipulation. This guide offers practical steps to strengthen your awareness, build trust in reliable information, and empower your decision-making in an overwhelming sea of media noise.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
When Trump threatened to end birthright citizenship, it wasn’t just a headline-grabber—it was a flare shot over the bow of a sinking ship. We’re not watching immigration policy evolve; we’re watching it unravel into a civilizational panic. And the panic isn’t new. It’s the same one that’s been weaponized time and time again to keep the powerless fighting among themselves while the powerful cash their checks, hire undocumented workers, and blame brown babies for the chaos. Sound familiar? It should. This is America’s oldest grift, repackaged for the golden age of racism.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Humans tend to craft tidy narratives to explain history and current affairs as if events unfold predictably due to understandable causes and effects.
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- Written by: Hajar Yazdiha
January is a month that commemorates a darker, more recent memory of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by right-wing extremists. The two issues—misuses of King’s memory and the Jan. 6 attacks—may seem like unrelated phenomena.
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- Written by: William E. Halal
The Knowledge Age of the past two decades was supposed to bring greater understanding and even enlightenment. So why are people so emotional, misinformed, and unreasonable?
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- Written by: William E. Halal
The Knowledge Age of the past two decades was supposed to bring greater understanding and even enlightenment. So why are people so emotional, misinformed, and unreasonable?
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- Written by: Alison Gash, University of Oregon
As a civil rights scholar, I have found that campaigns that mischaracterize LGBTQ-supportive policies as harmful to young people are a staple strategy conservatives use to galvanize their base.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
What is increasingly obvious is the dark side that is engulfing the internet and is spreading inaccuracies, falsehoods and propaganda to an unsuspecting audience.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
What is increasingly obvious is the dark side that is engulfing the internet and is spreading inaccuracies, falsehoods and propaganda to an unsuspecting audience.
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- Written by: Areva Martin
Black women reaching the highest levels of success, like our former first lady, are not immune to the microaggressions prevalent in our workplaces, from "compliments" about how articulate we are to "advice" about striving too aggressively to succeed to assumptions that...
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- Written by: Areva Martin
Black women reaching the highest levels of success, like our former first lady, are not immune to the microaggressions prevalent in our workplaces, from "compliments" about how articulate we are to "advice" about striving too aggressively to succeed to assumptions that...
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, Innerself.com
Nova Scotia is a Canadian province of around 1,000,000 people and our home county in Florida has half that. But it is the public behavior in Florida that left much to be desired this time around.
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- Written by: Timothy DeLizzam 2020 Barry Lopez Nonfiction Prize winner
In May 2021, the late-night show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” aired a public service announcement that told viewers to “grow the f*ck up” and take the Covid-19 vaccine. In the clip, a Trump-supporting White woman is belittled for spreading misinformation about vaccination risks via Facebook.
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- Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick
Most human beings want the same thing. Food. Shelter. Clothing. Good health. A sense of purpose. Education. Productive work. Prosperity. Friendship. Love. Happiness. For some, children and grandchildren. Inner peace. A meaningful existence. A life of decency and dignity. A worthy legacy.
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- Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick
Most human beings want the same thing. Food. Shelter. Clothing. Good health. A sense of purpose. Education. Productive work. Prosperity. Friendship. Love. Happiness. For some, children and grandchildren. Inner peace. A meaningful existence. A life of decency and dignity. A worthy legacy.
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- Written by: Kalpana Jain, Senior Religion + Ethics Editor
A new two-hour documentary on PBS examines the life and rise of Billy Graham, the famed preacher, who died on Feb. 21, 2018 at 99. Graham’s enduring legacy is...
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- Written by: Roger Whitaker, Professor of Collective Intelligence, Cardiff University
Football fans often become so deeply connected to their club and to other fans, as though they’re related. They’re willing to support the group on a lifelong basis, with unwaivering pride even in the face of losses.
