By Dr. Nicholas Bowman / 06.27.2017 Associate Professor of Communication Studies West Virginia University It was in April 2016 that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social media platform was providing its nearly two billion users the opportunity to livestream content. The move was viewed as a natural extension of the platform’s primary goal: providing a space[…]
By Michele Rosenthal / 09.11.2017 Addiction as a Coping Mechanism …if you have trauma in your history you woke up with the conscious or unconscious desire for what all trauma survivors want: safety and control. ~ Michele Rosenthal Let’s imagine that you can float up above the timeline of your life, turn and face the past[…]
Georgetown University Research suggests that our brains may be wired for altruism, but there’s a catch—well, five of them, actually. By Dr. Summer Allen / 08.28.2017 Research/Writing Fellow, Greater Good Science Center University of California Berkeley Humans can be remarkably generous. Americans gave a record $390 billion to charitable organizations in 2016 through a combination of individual[…]
A line drawing of Epictetus writing at a table with a crutch draped across his lap and shoulder. Frontispiece drawn by “Sonnem” and engraved by “MB”. / Boston Public Library By Dr. Garth Kemerling / 11.12.2011 Professor of Philosophy Capella University Philosophy Pages The Hellenistic World The great golden age of Athenian philosophy, encompassing Socrates,Plato, and Aristotle only lasted for about[…]