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Being an introvert has always been seen as a challenge to many people. Despite the fact that there are millions of introverts in the world, many extroverts still look puzzled at us, shocked with our behavior and choices. However, we still enjoy their company and wish they could understand us better so to avoid stress and misunderstandings. So
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We might not even be aware we are holding it, waiting for a call, a text, an email. Or perhaps we’ve fallen even deeper into the trap: we’re poised to make our minute-by-minute check on Facebook or Instragram. Just to see if another person has liked the comment or picture we posted earlier. What exactly
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In a now classic experiment, the psychologists Richard E Nisbett and Timothy Wilson at the University of Michigan laid out a range of items, such as pairs of stockings, and asked people to select one. Participants consistently preferred the items on their most right-hand side. But when they were asked to explain their choices, they
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Indi Gregory, a critically ill 8-month-old baby girl from Derbyshire, England, was taken off life support over the weekend. Her family announced her overnight passing on Monday. Diagnosed with a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease, Indi had won the hearts of the British and global public. Her parents, the Vatican’s pediatric hospital, and even the Italian
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In the history of concentration camps, there is one thing that everyone knows: they were invented by the British. The idea of isolating unwanted population groups in purpose-built camps was implemented in South Africa in the context of the Anglo-Boer War, with horrific consequences for the Boer population. Although it would be left to the
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For the average individual, life today is lived in a gulf between statistical reality and the never-never land of conjecture. Just how wide is this gulf of discrepancies? Theodore Roosevelt Malloch answers that question in an article for American Greatness, citing a recent YouGov poll that asked Americans to estimate the numbers in various subgroups
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