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What if consciousness did not begin with thought, language, or self-awareness? Exploring whether hunger and sexual desire were among the earliest subjective experiences.

What if many childhood mental health challenges are predictable responses to the changes in modern family life? Here’s what ancient parenting practices can teach us.

Hero of Alexandria (born around 10 AD) is credited with developing the first steam engine, the first vending machine and the first known wind powered machine (a musical organ). Given the revolutionary impact of the steam engine centuries later, it might be wondered why the Greeks did not use these inventions in their economy. While…

It is there like a constant whisper, like a ceaseless gust of thought rustling through the canopy of the collective mind: the haunting sense that ours is a particularly difficult time to be alive, that reality today is particularly hard to bear. Such sentiments are errors of proximity — we live too close to the…

“Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else … may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds.” “I do not believe that I have ever written a children’s book,” the great Maurice Sendak once said in an interview. “I don’t write for children,” he told Colbert….

When I look in the mirror I always see my sister staring at me and she sees me looking at her.

When we use language that witnesses rather than dismisses, engages rather than assumes, and connects rather than corrects, we create deeper human connection.

You’ve been trying to improve your sex life the wrong way. The real recipe has nothing to do with sex itself. It’s simpler than you think.

The models imprinted on us and the coping skills we developed as children no longer work in adulthood. How to upgrade your skills, control emotions, and use them as information.