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Normal people never eat an entire pack of cookies, feel depressed about the state of their lives, or stay in their pajamas 'til past noon. Do they? When we make a mistake or do something we wish we hadn’t, it's easy to castigate ourselves with the words, Why can’t I…
Do you like movies about mental illness? Why are we so fascinated with movies in which the protagonist is suffering from some sort of mental disorder? Is it because we feel an affinity with the main character? Or that the narrative can take us into the deepest realms of the…
This facial recognition app will make you rethink the privacy you believe you have. The international hype of posting photos of yourself in various life situations has expanded over the past 10 years. People are posting more and more photos of themselves in all different situations and less or more…
In a world of scarce resources, inequality, and environmental meltdown, there are some things it’s no longer worth being impressed by. If we want to see a fairer, happier, and more peaceful world, we need to re-evaluate our measures of success. Here are six things we should no longer be…
Have you ever been stuck for a word to describe some of your more complex emotional states? Which of the following 8 emotional states are you familiar with? 1. Sublimation Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, used the term sublimation to refer to the redirection of the erotic drive (or libido)…
I don’t want to start this piece by describing today’s society to you. You can see it for yourself. If you're young enough not to know the difference, it won’t seem strange to you. If you, like me, are old enough to have lived in a different time, today’s society…
You may think that a person who has a quiet life and is not involved in any activist organization cannot be rebelling against society. But what if I told you that rebellion is not only about participating in activist campaigns and holding protest posters? In fact, there are more subtle…
