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The mind allows us to understand what the world is like, but it is consciousness that gives us the subjective vantage to say “I am here, I exist, I have […]
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A conversation with the behavioral neurobiologist.
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Instead of recording every event in your life, the brain records conjunctions of the occurrence of certain events. Out of the conjunction, it can then replay and reconstruct.
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Parents need to wean themselves off of the idea that they must be constantly available to their child and vice versa.
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Author Lenore Skenazy is tired of helicopter parents messing up their kids.
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At some point in the past thirty years it became taboo to let your kids play outside without supervision. What's with that?
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Lenore Skenazy, who advocates for the free-range kids style of parenting, helps you learn to stop over-obsessing about your children.
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Things have improved tremendously for LGBT youth since Testone was young, but there are still plenty of kids without supportive families who come to New York and end up homeless.
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At first,Testone feared coming out to her friends would shatter the narrative she had created in high school. Looking back, she calls that fear internalized homophobia.
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Despite working for a gay organization, Testone thought she was completely straight—until one special night at a lesbian bar in Dallas.
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A conversation with the director of the LGBT Center in New York.
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Primaries were conceived to keep power out of the hands of political party bosses, but now they contribute to our country’s hyper-polarization and should be abolished.
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Social media sites have fundamentally changed how people communicate, but when it comes to really groundbreaking ways of reaching people “social has so many more legs still to go. We […]
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The fact that social media has become more of a mainstream activity means that businesses need to take it seriously. The days when you could ignore it are long gone.
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A conversation with the founder of the Altimeter Group.
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There are some very interesting things coming out of the Nordic countries that could challenge the culinary hegemony of Spain and France.
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There’s something amiss if restaurants have to announce that they use good quality ingredients; that should be a given, says Dufresne.
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Foam has risen to prominence among a certain generation of chefs—but its detractors call it pretentious or just plain weird.
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Humans have never invested very much in the public health and safety issues of their societies. Meanwhile ants, over the course of millions of years, have put a lot of […]
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Dufresne has two common approaches to dishes: familiar things in unfamiliar presentations and unfamiliar things in familiar presentations.