Does Ozempic Blunt Our Hunger for Love?
The mix of desires and drives that contributes to romantic connection could be disrupted by GLP-1 drugs that suppress reward and motivation.
The mix of desires and drives that contributes to romantic connection could be disrupted by GLP-1 drugs that suppress reward and motivation.
Loneliness is at an all-time high. What can we do to stop feeling isolated?
While neurodivergence and neurodiversity in the workplace have long been seen as a problem to be solved, it may instead hold the answer to many workplace issues.
“To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight,” E. E. Cummings wrote in his timeless summons for the courage to be yourself. But what does it really mean to be…
“We want to believe that love is singular and exclusive, and it unnerves us to think that it might actually be renewable…” While it is true, as generations of psychologists have found, that “who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love” — a process known as limbic revision —…
Decluttering comes in waves and stages and layers. Letting go of sentimental clutter can feel like the deepest depths of those waves and stages and layers. I saved sentimental clutter and books and didn’t address it until… The post How to Gently Let Go of Sentimental Clutter appeared first on Be More with Less.
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…