Walk into almost any bookstore today, and you’ll find a section—formal or not—devoted to what’s come to be known as “Quit Lit.” These are often the books people turn to when they’re... Read more »
Choosing a child care program is one of the most consequential decisions parents make during the early years of a child’s life. When my kids were young, I would visit classrooms, observe... Read more »
What is survivor’s guilt? Google dictionary describes it this way: A condition of persistent mental and emotional stress experienced by someone who has survived an incident in which others died. For example,... Read more »
Temple Grandin, Henry Cavendish, Nikola Tesla, Hannah Gadsby, Emily Dickinson, and Chris Packham are all very different people who share some profound commonalities. Chris Packham is a naturalist and photographer, and an... Read more »
Merrill Joan Gerber has been writing fiction, essays, and memoirs—and getting her work published regularly—for well over half a century. I was curious about her long writing life and her various routes... Read more »
I knew exactly what AI was doing. I could name the mechanisms in real time. I could see the validation loops, recognize the flattery, and catch the subtle ways AI keeps a... Read more »
Is too much information a bad thing? When it comes to anxiety, the flood of information that we can now get from technology is problematic. In fact, one study found a significant... Read more »
In 2001, Angela Friederici invited me to spend a month at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in Leipzig. I arrived speaking no German. That month taught me what it felt... Read more »
Although springtime is synonymous with new beginnings, this is not always the case with romantic relationships among young people today. During their parents’ generation, relationships were expected to culminate in marriage. Today,... Read more »
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist who barely survived the Holocaust and Nazi death camps, described the existential vacuum as one of the defining experiences of the modern world. If anyone had earned... Read more »