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Personal Perspective: Checks in balance are the only way to keep any fragile dynamic going, whether it’s health, marriage, or government.

While I have been playing computer games since I hunted the Wumpus on a DECwriter , I still think it is odd that competitive gamers have been dubbed “e-athletes.” Some colleges offer athletic scholarships to these e-athletes and field sports teams. As with some other college sports, these e-athletes can go pro and play video…

“In forty years of medical practice, I have found only two types of non-pharmaceutical ‘therapy’ to be vitally important for patients with chronic neurological diseases: music and gardens.” “I work like a gardener,” the great painter Joan Miró wrote in his meditation on the proper pace for creative work. It is hardly a coincidence that…

Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one and only human experience — in these particular bodies and minds and circumstances drawn from the cosmic lottery —…

Weekend Wisdom: Owning less is gentler than organizing more. I’ve been doing this new, fun thing where I wake up really early, like a little too early. I sleep in a cold, dark room, stop drinking coffee… The post 10 tips for the Libby app + an unusual approach to decluttering appeared first on Be…

The reward for doing great work isn’t always a promotion. Sometimes it’s just more work. Here’s how the competency tax keeps high performers stuck.

Rage bait and parasocial attachment can turn online disappointment into real emotional pain, leaving people grieving a relationship that never truly existed.

People who are animal empaths have a special ability to tune in to animals and communicate with them. They seem to attract different creatures wherever they go.