Food is one of the most common things we turn to when life isn’t going our way. Something about eating delicious stuff makes the pain or anxiety we’re feeling a little less awful. But, if you’re one of the 350 million people who suffers from depression, you know all too well that it takes a lot more
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READ MOREWhen Americans use the term “liberal” today, they are usually describing a person or group that holds political or moral views associated with the Democratic Party or the “Left.” But it was not always so. In fact, this contemporary usage is the result of an etymological evolution—or devolution, depending on whom you ask. As a
READ MOREWhy do people sext? Why do they send racy or naked photos or videos and sexually loaded texts? For a short-term hookup, sexting might seem like a direct way to get what you want – or at least try to. But according to my research, sexting is actually most likely to occur within a committed
READ MOREShimon Dotan, a Romanian born award-winning filmmaker from Israel, was disinvited from a film conference at Syracuse University. Dotan reportedly had received what he thought was an invitation to screen his latest film, The Settlers, which deals with Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Then the filmmaker was told by Professor M. Gail Hamner, a
READ MOREHeading to college can be quite a shock; it’s challenging to transition from the comforts and privacy of home to the sheer human density of the college dormitory experience. For most everyone, it’s the least privacy they’ll experience in their entire lives; dozens of eighteen- and nineteen-year-old men and women jammed into cinderblock buildings on
READ MORELast September, scientists announced the discovery of a never-before-seen human relative (hominin), now known as Homo naledi, deep in a South African cave. The site yielded more than 1,500 bone fragments, an astonishing number in a field that often celebrates the identification of a single tooth. That rich fossil cache revealed much about the creatures,
READ MOREIn 1927, G. K. Chesterton gave a talk at University College, London, on the topic of “Culture and the Coming Peril”. It was one of the best talks he ever gave and one of the most prophetic. He began by addressing the expectation of many in his audience that the “coming peril” was communism, the
READ MOREGene Wilder lived by those words. The world lost the great comedic actor on August 28, 2016, from complications with Alzheimer’s. With impressive stoicism and thoughtfulness for his many young fans, Wilder decided not to publicly disclose that he was suffering from the disease for the past few years because “he simply couldn’t bear the idea of
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