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Why Thinking About Dying Makes Us More Generous
Huffington Post: You’re visiting a friend who lives on the 20th floor of an old, inner city block of apartments. It’s the middle of the night when you are suddenly awakened from a deep sleep
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When Organic, Sustainable, Fresh and Local Is Not Enough
Huffington Post: Many of my clients come to my office already very much aware of the importance of eating fresh, organic, locally-grown food. They are eager to talk about the nutritional value of what they
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Stanley Milgram taught us we have more to fear from zealots than zombies
The Guardian: If you were a reporter instructed by your editor to hack into a grieving parent’s phone, would you do it? If you were a Syrian soldier ordered to fire on unarmed protesters, would
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Working Moms: Work-Life Balance Affected By Language Used, Kellogg Study Finds
Huffington Post: Very few employers have figured out how to make work — and life — manageable for working mothers, but what if it’s not just our work-life policies that are flawed? What if even
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Happiness, Philosophy and Science
The New York Times: Philosophy was the origin of most scientific disciplines. Aristotle was in some sense an astronomer, a physicist, a biologist, a psychologist and a political scientist. As various philosophical subdiscplines found ways
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Like Mama Bears, Nursing Mothers Defend Babies With A Vengeance
Women who breast-feed are far more likely to demonstrate a “mama bear” effect — aggressively protecting their infants and themselves — than women who bottle-feed their babies or non-mothers, according to a new study in