James Geary: Metaphorically Speaking

3/28/15. TED talk. On Elvis and more...

http://www.ted.com/talks/james_geary_metaphorically_speaking?language=en

Why Teenagers Should Work Part-Time

3/27/15. Published in the Michigan Psychological Association Newsletter, First Quarter, 2015.


I worked in supermarkets for five years during my adolescence and early twenties - the work taught me invaluable lessons:


1.   The world is an outpatient psychiatric ward.


2.   Rich people shoplift.


3.   People routinely say crazy things.


4.   Many people are generous and kind.


5.   Employees steal.


6.   The world is not fair.


7.   Part-time work is the strongest motivator to attend college.


8.   Being kind is more important than being clever.


9.   Earning your own money is a gift that keeps on giving.


10. It's not all about you.


Steven J. Ceresnie, Ph.D.

HBO Documentary: Going Clear. The Prison of Belief

3/27/15. Watch the documentary on HBO this Sunday about Scientology, based on the book by Lawrence Wright.


Scientologists, where their founder L. Ron Hubbard lectures us about the between-lives period, when thetans are transported to Venus to have their memories erased, have waged a 40 year war against psychology and psychiatry, and against psychiatric medications in particular.


Scientologists have created the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Los Angeles based nonprofit organization formed by the church in 1969 to investigate what the church considers mental health abuses, that is, the use of psychiatric medications such as Ritalin and Prozac.


Scientologists have used their considerable fortune to sue drug companies and such prestigious organizations as the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, among others. When Scientologists announce their legal challenges to protect children from psychiatric treatments, the media shines a bright light on these efforts. When judges throw out these suits because of no merit, not a word of their dismissals reach the public.


Many vulnerable people are seduced by the simplistic promises of Scientology and remained locked in the cult inside the prison of belief.


http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/going-clear#/

On Rube Goldberg

3/21/15.  The alphabet of satire.


http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_1_urb-rube-goldberg.html

Living with Uncertainty

3/19/15. There are only two days a year I can't control --- tomorrow and yesterday.






http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/how-uncertainty-fuels-anxiety/388066/

NIMH: National Brain Awareness Week

3/18/20. It's 11:00 p.m. - Do you know where your brain is?




http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2015/brain-awareness.shtml?utm_source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govdelivery

Do We Live in an Age of Irrational Parenting?

3/14/15. What's the matter with parents today?

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/03/we-live-in-an-age-of-irrational-parenting.html

Is Death Optional?

3/14/15.


A Conversation: Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Kahneman



http://edge.org/

 

Sally Satel, M.D. What Constitutes the Underworld of Trauma?

3/14/15. Dr. Satel reviews two books on trauma.

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/how-does-one-tell-the-untraumatized-majority-about-the-conditions-that-constitute-the-underworld-of-trauma

Lies and Statistics

3/9/15. Know your chances.


http://blogs.plos.org/absolutely-maybe/mind-your-ps-rrs-and-nnts-on-good-statistics-behavior/

David Brooks - The Cost of Relativism

3/10/15. Winners and losers. When a culture has no norms, and a nonjudgmental attitude seeps in, deprivation, disorganization, and danger are the rules of families.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/opinion/david-brooks-the-cost-of-relativism.html?hpw&rref=opinion&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

A Better World, Run by Women

3/7/15. Melvin Konner, an anthropologist and a physician, knows what he is talking about.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-better-world-run-by-women-1425657910

Michael Shermer: My Skepticism is Shaken

3/6/15. Shaken and rattled skepticism. Who knew?


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anomalous-events-that-can-shake-one-s-skepticism-to-the-core/?WT.mc_id=send-to-friend

Jimmy Kimmel on the Anti-vaxers

3/5/15. The next time you cut yourself, get out your sewing kit.  What do doctors know anyhow.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendy-sue-swanson-md-mbe-faap/vaccines-and-the-f-bomb_b_6801060.html?utm_hp_ref=parents&ir=Parents&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed

Is Mine Normal?

3/4/15. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.




http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/03/03/is_your_penis_normal_theres_a_chart_for_that_109106.html

Conservatism as Counterculture

3/2/15. American exceptionalism - should we boo or cheer?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414644/conservatism-counterculture-shelby-steele

How to Change Minds

3/2/15. Getting to know you.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/gay-marriage-how-to-change-minds-1424882037?KEYWORDS=sapolsky

Queer Theory and Illegal Immigration

3/2/15. Perpetual grievance.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0301hm.html