Sam had just one request for police about to destroy the makeshift shelter in the woods he’d built: “Can I watch?” The video above, showing a visibly shaken Sam become teary-eyed as his home of several years crumbles to the ground, is promoting a new documentary shedding light at the current realities of homelessness in …
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Earlier this year, Stanford University researchers found that a person’s ability to think creatively increases almost 60 percent when they abandon that office chair for a stroll around the block. And taking brief, unplugged vacations and spending time outdoors specifically have proven to help us arrive at our best ideas and improve our decision-making abilities. …
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Some women murder their children at birth. Some kill them over a lifetime. Many of us came from dysfunctional families. I knew mine was that, but have been realizing more and more just how seriously dysfunctional it is. When people extol their mothers I have long kept my mouth shut, partly because I believed the …
Founder of the MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte says that humans will “soon” be able to learn languages — or any information — by taking a pill. In a new TED talk the famed futurist and innovator essentially played a highlights reel of all the times he’s been right about the future over the years. …
[Hanne] Blank mentions her personal story at the beginning of her provocative new history of heterosexuality, “Straight,” as a way of illustrating just how artificial our notions of “straightness” really are. In her book, Blank, a writer and historian who has written extensively about sexuality and culture, looks at the ways in which social trends …
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