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Self-Help vs. Shakespeare: Which Is Better Therapy?
Reading challenging passages of old-fashioned literature and poetry “light up” your brain more than reading the same concepts translated into…
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Your 2013 Resolution: Help Yourself by Helping Others
For many of us, a new year brings lots of resolutions and hope for personal change in those early days…
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Why Moms Love Mondays
by Christine B. Whelan
I love Mondays.
I’m slightly ashamed to admit it, but on Monday…
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Through the Eyes of a Twenty-Something
Recently my husband and I had dinner with two of my former students–one of whom has a job after graduate…
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Why My Toddler Doesn’t Need an Award from Her Gym Class
A few weeks ago, my sixteen-month-old daughter received a “super star award” upon completion of her Gymkhana toddler gym class.…
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My Pop Culture Guilty Pleasure: Real Simple
It started when I was single and living in New York City. Alone. I read it before bed, wide-eyed at…
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Self-Help for Recessionary Times
I’d never heard of Cheryl Strayed, a.k.a. Sugar, before I read this weekend’s piece in The Atlantic.com, but anyone described…
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Is Pop-Neuroscience the New Self-Help?
In The New Statesman this week author and journalist Steven Poole argues that practical applications of brain research—from popular books…
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Q&A with Slate’s Advice Maven, Emily Yoffe
As the author of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, Emily Yoffe deals with moral dilemmas and human failings on a daily basis.…
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Should We Love the Hated Video Game?
OK, I’ll come out and say it: I hate video games.
Maybe it’s because I’m terrible at them. When…
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THE DAILY SCENE
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Cancer Survivor Melissa Etheridge Says Angelina Jolie’s Mastectomy “Wasn’t a Brave Choice”–Mail Online
When Angelina Jolie underwent a preventative…
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Kim Kardashian, Kanye Need to “Focus” on Premature Baby, Says Dr. Oz–UsMagazine
Dr. Mehmet Oz has some cautionary…
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Buddhist Monks Are Having a Louis Vuitton Scandal–New York Magazine
A viral video showing Buddhist monks…
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Listening to Young Atheists: Lessons for a Stronger Christianity–The Atlantic
When a Christian foundation interviewed college…
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Albert Einstein’s Advice to His 11-Year-Old Son–Brain Pickings
“That is the way to learn…
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What is Pop Culture? What is High Culture? acculturated.com/2013/05/08/wha… … via @Acculturated Must read!
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Watching the #NBAFinals? Read my review of the cultural implications of these two teams acculturated.com/2013/06/18/the… @Acculturated #Heat #Spurs
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These pageants and tv shows about pageants continue to be a financial boon at the expense of female dignity. acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis… #tcot
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Miss Utah was asked about women in the workforce & she fumbled. But the real disgrace is the pageants, themselves --> acculturated.com/2013/06/18/dis…
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