Consciously Create Your Day
Most of us just go about life each day feeling like wind chimes…sometimes we make lovely sweet music and sometimes we are buffeted by gale force winds, with wild dissonant sounds. Often we feel at the mercy of fate, which is handing us some read more

By: Jackie Lapin
Category: Society, Social Issues > People

The Nun Study and Alzheimer's Disease
A pioneering study, the Nun Study offers insight into whether a positive emotional outlook early in life will help people live longer. The study of 678 nuns in seven convents in Connecticut, Maryland, Texas, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois is read more

By: Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People

The Psychology of Housing & Shelter
The humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow lists shelter and housing on the second level of his "hierarchy of needs", with the basics of food, water, and breathing on the first level. Only when the first basic levels, "the felt read more

By: Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People

200th Birthday of Darwin
On February 12-16, 2009, the Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers was held in conjunction with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. With the theme "Our Planet and its Life: Origins read more

By: Nancy L. Young-Houser
Category: Society, Social Issues > People