Mark Crowley wrote an article for Psychology Today titled Are You Doing the Work You Were Meant to Do? (11 September 2026).
Continue reading “Are You Doing the Work You Were Meant to Do?”The Surge in Childhood Psychiatric Diagnoses
Pediatric neuropsychologist Prof. Sam Goldstein wrote an article for Psychology Today titled An Epidemic of Need: The Surge in Childhood Psychiatric Diagnoses (22 April 2025).
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Gregg Vanourek wrote an article titled The Mental Prisons We Build for Ourselves (21 July 2021).
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Retired psychiatrist Hugh Winig wrote an article titled Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing) for OLLI at UC Berkeley (16 January 2024).
Continue reading “Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing)”People rate selves better than average, even faced with objective data to the contrary.
Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).
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Jonathan Dunnett wrote an article titled The Secret, Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism.
Continue reading “The Destructive Power of Unbridled Optimism”Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?
Alan Levinovitz wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? (September 25, 2024).
Continue reading “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?”The doorway effect
Charles B. Brenner and Jeffrey M. Zacks wrote an article for Scientific American titled Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget (December 13, 2011).
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Ian Beacock wrote an article for The New Republic titled Birds Aren’t Real: The Prank That Turned Misinformation on Its Head (28 May 2024). « Calling itself Birds Aren’t Real, this group of primarily Gen Z truthers… explain that the U.S. government secretly ran a “mass bird genocide” starting in the late 1950s, replacing the real avian population with sophisticated surveillance-drone look-alikes. Bird-watching now goes both ways. »
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Maria Popova wrote a book review on Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit.
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