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Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid: a list of inaccurate, misleading, misused,...
The goal of this article is to promote clear thinking and clear writing among students and teachers of psychological science by curbing terminological misinformation and confusion. To this end, we present a provisional list of 50 commonly used terms in psychology, psychiatry, and allied fields that should be avoided, or at most used sparingly and with explicit caveats.
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World Population Pyramid
The World's best Population Pyramid covering 100 years of age and sex distribution for every country in the world.
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Interview: Photographer Christopher Swann Captures Whales and Dolphins in All Their Glory
British photographer Christopher Swann captures stunning shots of cetaceans like whales and dolphins both above and beneath the surface of the ocean. With over 25 years of experience diving and running whale- and dolphin-watching holidays around the world, the photographer has become finely attuned to the behaviors of these majestic creatures, enabling him to venture close to them for intimate and eye-opening portraits.
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What I Learned Writing a Haiku Every Day for 100 Days
Courtney Symons on Medium discusses why she wrote the haikus, what she learned, and the importance of doing something creative every day.
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Why Lonely People Stay Lonely
It’s not because they don’t understand social skills. By Melissa Dahl.
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The strange phenomenon of musical ‘skin orgasms’
Some people enjoy music so much that the sensations can be compared to sex. How does a good song move the body and mind in this way, asks David Robson.
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Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.
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That Time the Internet Sent a SWAT Team to My Mom’s House
When I set out to research the out-of-control harassment problem in gamer culture, I never dreamed my mother would be caught up in the middle of it all.
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Umberto Eco’s Advice to Writers
“If we think that our reader is an idiot, we should not use rhetorical figures, but if we use them and feel the need to explain them, we are essentially calling the reader an idiot. In turn, he will take revenge by calling the author an idiot.”
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Depression damages parts of the brain, research concludes
Brain damage is caused by persistent depression rather than being a predisposing factor for it, researchers have finally concluded after decades of unconfirmed hypothesising.
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Phone data used to identify depression
A new study suggests depression can be detected from smartphone sensor data by tracking the number of minutes you use the phone and your daily geographical locations.
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Milky Way over Tyrol Mountains, Austria. [1492x990]
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Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking
Huge project by Glasgow University researchers plots thirteen centuries of startling cognitive connections.
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How To Make Panda Sushi Roll - Amazing Food Art
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Letter from Cuba
Will Americans “ruin” Havana? By Shona Sanzgiri.
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Deliberative democracy and the age of social media
“But something important has changed since the 1990s when a lot of discussions of deliberative democracy took place. This is the workings of social media -- blogs, comments, Twitter discussions, Facebook communities. Here we have millions of people interacting with each other and debating issues -- but we don't seem to have a surge of better or more informed thinking about the hard issues...”
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American History X-ed
How The Confederate Flag Was Divorced From Slavery & Segregation
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The Lonely American
Communal activities, from attendance at sporting events to civic organizations, have plummeted. We are isolated and have become hapless victims of corporate propaganda. We must reconnect to resist. By Chris Hedges.
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How we learn to be helpless—and unlearn it
Learned helplessness keeps people in bad jobs, poor health, terrible relationships, and awful circumstances despite how easy it may be to escape. Learn how to defeat this psychological trap, thanks to the work of Martin Seligman. [Audio]
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‘I Don’t Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium’
My 20-year struggle with bipolar disorder.
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Supreme Court strikes down bans on same-sex marriage
The Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the United States in a divided ruling that will stand as one of the major milestones in its 226-year history.
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Alberta mayors back guaranteed minimum income
Mayors from both Edmonton and Calgary came out in support of some kind of basic income guarantee — or mincome, as it’s sometimes called. In light of the NDP’s sweeping victory in Alberta, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi told reporters that he’s interested to see if the province’s new finance minister, anti-poverty activist Joe Ceci, supports guaranteed minimum income in the form of a “negative income tax.”
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How to Avoid Indoctrination at the Hands of 'Your Liberal Professor'
But the best brochure of all was this one called “Indoctrination Prevention,” featuring a ‘90s-looking teen model with zombie eyes on the cover and the tagline “10 Ways College Professors Indoctrinate America’s Youth and How to Prevent It.” Its introduction states that it was written “so that college students can take charge of their education and remain steadfast in their beliefs of free markets, capitalism and the American dream.”
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Return of Electro-Cures Exposes Psychiatry’s Weakness
TMS and other ‘electro-cures’ for depression are becoming popular in spite of limited demonstrated effectiveness
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A senseless fight
Combatants on both sides of the food wars are fighting for the same ends.
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Consciousness has less control than believed, according to new theory
Consciousness -- the internal dialogue that seems to govern one's thoughts and actions -- is far less powerful than people believe, serving as a passive conduit rather than an active force that exerts control, according to a new theory proposed by a researcher.
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Losing the thread
Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again
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Vincent Van Gogh Found in a Photo from 1887
This group photo from 1887 is reportedly the first photo ever found of Vincent Van Gogh after he became an artist. If experts are correct, then the man third from the left (and smoking a pipe) is the legendary artist himself.
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Aldous Huxley on Drugs, Democracy, and Religion
“Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.”
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The women whom science forgot
Many female scientists in the past were not given credit for their achievements - here are just a few of them.
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