The Psychiatric Green Book
A psychiatrist’s team wanted to send a Black autistic boy to the ER. She knew what would happen if he went. A new resource could help other families see the danger before it’s too late.
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Meditation Is Having Its Gallup Moment
New data could move meditation from a private practice to a measurable public health tool for addressing stress, loneliness, and burnout.
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The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak
In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her young charges at that “dreadful ancient New York schoolhouse,” as she would later recall, was a ten-year-old boy she was astonished to find reading, like her, Dickens. Their…
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Kahlil Gibran on the Art of Becoming Yourself Across the Sweep of Life
A roadmap to the fulfilled belonging on the other side of “the great aloneness which knows not what is far and what is near, nor what is small nor great.” The unfolding of life does more than fray our bodies with entropy — it softens our spirit, blunting the edge of vanity and broadening the…
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Decoding the Mystery of Intuition: AI Prophet Margaret Boden on the Three Elements of Creativity
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do [only] whatever we know how to order it to perform,” Ada Lovelace inveighed upon composing the world’s first algorithm for the world’s first computer. Meanwhile, she was reckoning with the nature of creativity, distilling it to a trinity: “an intuitive perception of…
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The Trump Continuum
Alternative reality fiction involves, as would be suspected, a fictional world like the actual world except for some key differences. In the case of alternative history fiction, the key differences arise due to some change in historical events—thus creating an alternative fictional timeline. One popular example of this is changing the outcome of WWII. The…
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Wade Munroe: Inner Speech, Speech Acts, and the Metaphysics of Language
Inner Speech, Speech Acts, and the Metaphysics of Language Wade Munroe There is scant mention of inner speech in the extensive literature on speech-act theory and recent work on the metaphysics of words and other linguistic entities. This is a substantial oversight. My post is a rallying cry: Inner speech …
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Best Grounding Techniques for Trauma Relief
Discover the best grounding techniques for trauma and gentle ways to feel safer in your body when distressing memories or overwhelm arise – at your own pace.
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Uncoding Creativity in the Age of AI: What Makes a Great Poem, What Makes a Great Storyteller, and What Makes Great Person
I once asked ChatGPT to write a poem about a total solar eclipse in the style of Walt Whitman. It returned a dozen couplets of cliches that touched nothing, changed nothing in me. The AI had the whole of the English language at its disposal — a lexicon surely manyfold the poet’s — and yet…
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You Didn’t Write That Chapter
Society’s stories about a good life affect who you become. It’s up to you to rewrite that story.
