For years, eating disorder specialists have been telling us that we need to eat “mindfully,” that we need to “listen to our bodies,” and that we need to sort out emotional causes... Read more »
Have you ever pretended you’d seen a movie because everyone else in the conversation was talking about it? Or nodded along when someone mentioned a book, podcast, or band you’d never heard... Read more »
An auditory hallucination (AH) is the subjective experience of hearing sounds, commonly voices, that are not actually occurring in the environment. While often considered to be synonymous with schizophrenia, AHs actually occur... Read more »
Legislative proposals from anti-vaccine campaigners (whom the World Health Organization has euphemistically dubbed the “vaccine hesitant”) have swamped the agendas of 34 state legislatures in 2026. Sympathetic legislators introduced more than 200... Read more »
Given the wildly popular new movie version of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan—there were several previous versions of which I am aware, the original from 1954 starring Kirk Douglas as Odysseus,... Read more »
On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, blogger Perez Hilton live-streamed a brutal episode of self-mutilation for approximately 15 minutes on TikTok Live. The stream may have continued had the platform not taken the... Read more »
Ariana Grande recently announced that she wishes to “step back from visibility.” The public statement said that “she looks forward to finishing the tour and ending it on a high note, both... Read more »
After nearly three years away, Ted Lasso is back. The new season gives us another opportunity to revisit one of the psychological questions that has always been at the heart of the... Read more »
A neighbor of mine, a woman of a certain age and considerable wisdom, stopped me on the street recently with advice I have not been able to shake. “Bala,” she said, “it... Read more »
A Blind Spot With Real‑World Consequences Richard Davidson, the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, warns us (Davidson & Dahl, 2026, p 5): “The... Read more »