The elimination of humanity by artificial intelligence is a classic theme in science fiction that some companies are working on to make a reality. In some stories, we create killer machines that exterminate our species. Two examples are Terminator and “Second Variety.” In other cases, humans are out-evolved and replaced by machines—an evolutionary replacement rather…
The death of a good person saddens me, for their passing is a loss to the world. But I do not rejoice when a wicked person dies, for their death is also a loss, albeit one of potential. They could have been good or at least attempted redemption. It is accepted wisdom that even the…
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Few things in life are more exasperating than seeing the potential in someone you love and seeing them continually fall short of it, stumbling again and again over the same self-erected roadblocks of character and conduct, comporting themselves in a manner painfully inferior to what you know them to be capable of. What to do?…
“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.” “If you can fall in love again and again,” Henry Miller wrote as he contemplated the measure of a life well lived on the precipice of turning…
“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.” “The possibilities that exist between two people, or among a group of people,” Adrienne Rich wrote in her beautiful 1975 speech on lying and what truth really…
Clinicians and advocates are working to establish reproductive psychiatry as a formal subspecialty to ensure women like me receive evidence-based guidance when they need it most.
The ultimate goal of grad school should be that you live a better life, whatever that looks like for you. It is OK if what you want for yourself is not what others want for you.
Is the freedom of summer actually stressing your kids out? Learn why the lack of school-year structure can quietly trigger anxiety in children and teens.
What if the story you tell yourself is keeping you stuck? “Re-storying” life’s hardest experiences can uncover the resilience that has been inside you all along.
