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How Animals Think
Nonhuman minds have a great deal to teach us. By Alison Gopnik.
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He Tried to Be a Badger
Charles Foster, author of “Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide,” proposes that humans spend less time thinking about or even observing animals and more time emulating them. To appreciate what it’s like to be an otter, try catching fish in your mouth. To appreciate what it’s like to be a fox, try sleeping under a porch by day and foraging through garbage bins at night. The conceit is obviously demented, and Foster, a man of—by his own description—“shaggy, anarchic pretensions,” pursues it with unhinged élan. By Elizabeth Kolbert.
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The Psychology of Victim-Blaming
When people want to believe that the world is just, and that bad things won’t happen to them, empathy can suffer. By Kayleigh Roberts.
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Dostoevsky’s Empathy
“On the way to the prison camp, they stopped for the night in Tobolsk where a town bell had been sent into exile, convicted of ringing for seditious purposes. Its sentence was eternal silence.” By Laurie Sheck.
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Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self
The same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves. By Ed Yong.
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The Unbearable Niceness of Being
On niceness in publishing and why we should ask men to do better. By Alana Massey.
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'I know they are going to die.' This foster father takes in only terminally ill children (Warning: Autoplay AD)
The children were going to die. Mohamed Bzeek knew that. But in his more than two decades as a foster father, he took them in anyway — the sickest of the sick in Los Angeles County’s sprawling foster care system. He has buried about 10 children. Some died in his arms. Now, Bzeek spends long days and sleepless nights caring for a bedridden 6-year-old foster girl with a rare brain defect. She’s blind and deaf. She has daily seizures. Her arms and legs are paralyzed.
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The empathy layer
Can an app that lets strangers — and bots — become amateur therapists create a safer internet? By Ben Popper.
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The doctor who wants to change how you think about dying.
What frustrates me is, as providers, we’ve lost our humanness and we cease to live when we forget about the human. In my practice, I give every patient my personal mobile number. I get a call in the middle of the night from Sarah. I could hear her husband snoring in the background. I asked, “Are you okay?” “Well, yes and no,” she said. “You know, it’s those wee hours of the morning where we feel very alone and the uncertainty and the ambiguity of life creeps up on us.” And she said, “I just – I just wanted someone with me in this space.” I said, “Okay.”
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Beloved Curve — Using Double Exposures, Sarah Amy Fishlock Reflects on the Cycle of Life
Too often the humankind puts itself at the center of any reflection on the meaning of life, but the truth is our planet—not to speak about the entire universe—has existed since long before we came on to the scene, and will probably outlive us. The beauty of Beloved Curve, a recent conceptual photography series by 31 year-old Scottish photographer Sarah Amy Fishlock, is the simplicity with which it connects the existential theme of the incessant cycle of life to her grieving process for her father's death through the intelligent use of double exposures.
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Wild Thing: A New Biography of Thoreau
A quiet bombshell of a biography that reclaims a revolutionary Thoreau for the 21st century. By Daegan Miller.
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The Sucker, the Sucker!
What’s it like to be an octopus? By Amia Srinivasan.
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Want to ‘Speak’ Elephant? Now You Can
A new website helps you translate human words and emotions into a form of elephant communication. By Casey Smith. (Aug. 11, 2017)
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On Gaslighting
I keep having the same conversation over and over. That thing where someone undermines your perception of reality, and says you’re crazy, or denies that something is happening that is in fact happening? By Nora Samaran. (June 28, 2016)
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The Compassion-Passion Machine
Can a cardboard box generate empathy between two strangers? Can it help them to fall in love? By Deenah Vollmer. (May 2014)
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Eating for Peace
How cuisine bridges cultures. By Matthew Sedacca.
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Four Irrational Behaviors Voltaire Warned Us About
"I’ve had experience, I know the world. Amuse yourself, ask every passenger to tell you his story, and if you find one, just one, who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t often told himself he’s the unluckiest of men, throw me headfirst into the sea.’’ – Voltaire.
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The experts guide to Manipulative people – part 1 & 2
In this article I interview clinical Psychologist Dr. George Simon the internationally-recognized expert on manipulation and character disturbance, and the bestselling author of In Sheep’s Clothing, Character Disturbance, and The Judas Syndrome
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What Happened When A White Cop Decided Not to Shoot a Black Man
A shocking story of police and lethal force. Just not the one you might expect. By Joe Sexton.
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Whys of seeing
Experimental psychology is providing concrete answers to some of the great philosophical debates about art and its meaning. By Ellen Winner.
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