A longtime issue in college athletics has been whether college athletes should be paid. I heard debates over this when I was a college athlete and, decades later, I still hear them. One addition to the debate has been over branding deals, such as the use of likenesses in video games. One classic argument is…
Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist, a reliquary of the violent collisions that forged our rocky planet lush with life and tore from…
Psychologists study how humans process music. Technology now allows us to listen to music anytime—and this mind-music connection may shape our individual and group identity.
GLP-1 agonists have been a remarkable treatment for those who suffer from obesity-related illness, but suppressing hunger cues could pose a risk for those with eating disorders.
My father’s memorial service was last weekend. The event was wonderful, bringing together friends and family I hadn’t seen in decades. It was heartwarming to see colleagues, neighbours, Canadian family, Indian family, American family share their fond recollections of him. That evening, colleagues, my uncle, my childhood best friend and I got into a discussion…
One of my earliest and most vivid childhood memories is of swimming in a cool pool bounded by boulders in the middle of a river in the mountains of Bulgaria, the late-afternoon sun casting komorebi on the water through the rustling leaves. I can still hear the feeling-tone in my body, the strange and lovely…
Generation Z can pose unique challenges to management.
We can find healing powers in writing a poem about our present conflicts or conundrums. This requires no special writing skills. We simply open our mindful brain to our experience and jot down what comes up.
The philosopher’s critique of psychoanalysis asks us to consider what happens when a therapist’s interpretation becomes unfalsifiable, especially for neurodivergent clients.
