What Does Allyship Look Like Right Now?
How is allyship defined? In what ways do we need to expand which groups we include in our consideration of being an ally? How does this relate to Jewish identity?
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Against nostalgic ecology
When we think about the natural environment and how to treat it, we often assume by default that what we’re trying to do is return the nonhuman world to where it was before we started seriously messing with it. That impulse is very understandable. The world’s ecosystems functioned better, in the way that they had…
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How to De-escalate Your Heightened Emotions at Work
The workplace is a unique caldron of stress, due to long hours and the effort to maintain a persona and livelihood. These low-key mindfulness techniques help.
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What Personality Reveals About Musical Choices
Do you prefer music written in a major or a minor key? Your preference is likely linked to your own personality traits.
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Why You
A self is a story of why you are you — a selective retelling of the myriad chance events between the birth of the universe and this moment: atoms bonding one way and not another, parents bonding with one partner and not another, values binding you to one culture and not another. Against this utter…
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Medbots & Autodocs
In science fiction automated medical services are common. One example is the autodoc—an autonomous robotic pod that treats the patient within its confines. Medbots, as distinct from the autodoc, are robots that do not enclose the patient, but do their work in a way like a traditional doctor or medic. There are also non-robotic options…
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How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.” “The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it…
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Help me write my next book!
My current project is tentatively titled, The Lives We Didn’t Live: The Psychology of Regret. I’m looking for personal accounts on regret. Specifically, tell me if you have any regrets and what your biggest regrets are. Copy and paste the following into the body of your message to guide your answers. No personal identifiers will…
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Legendary Artist Sheila Hicks, at 92, on the Secret to Creative Vitality
Art, Georgia O’Keeffe believed, springs from “the desire to make the unknown known… and keeping the unknown always beyond you.” We seem to have drifted lightyears away from that motive force, the majority of our epoch’s cultural production aiming to render the market maximally known — its profitably proven preferences, its self-interests, its moral fashions…
