One December afternoon, I arrived in Patagonia with a big blue backpack, a small bilingual edition of Pablo Neruda’s love poems, and a broken heart. (Though a heart, of course, never breaks.) The moment I stepped out of the airplane, the Andes towered over me like the stone thrones of gods, snow-capped over the oracle…
While there have been improvements in the gender pay gap, women still generally lag behind men. In the United States, the median income for women workers is 81-83% of that of men. This is an improvement from the 75% figure of 1989 but is still a point of concern. Interestingly, there has been an inversion…
“Since our consciousness plays some part in what comes into being, the play of attention can both create and destroy, but it never leaves its object unchanged.” Whatever fundamental reality might exist, we live out our lives in a subjective reality defined by what we agree to attend to. “An act of pure attention, if…
When you make intentional shifts in the words you choose, you can shift your mind from doubt and blame toward confidence, resilience, and action.
External homophobia is easier to recognize, but the ways we’ve internalized it are more nuanced and less understood.
When tempers run hot at work, cooler heads can prevail—depending on who they are.
When a psychologist asks patients to use an online program, what can they do if they’re concerned that their personal information may be sold to other companies?
A recent case of long-term stalking that includes deviant interests raises questions about victim protections.
Official portrait of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez by Franmarie Metzler. Public domain. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”), the charismatic socialist Puerto Rican-American New York representative, made headlines last week for her quip that “Woke 1 was a mistake.” From a career perspective, this was a canny and savvy political move from someone who is, on the one hand, viewed…
In 1896, decades before Santiago Ramón y Cajal pioneered neuroscience, more than a century before Oliver Sacks showed us how perception phosphoresces in the 100 milliseconds between the world and us, half a lifetime before he was awarded the Nobel Prize, the polymathic French philosopher Henri Bergson (October 18, 1859–January 4, 1941) aimed his uncommon…
