Search results for “stress social”
The Best Children’s Books of 2015
From power-hungry sheep to power-hungry tigers, by way of ghosts, E.E. Cummings, and the unseen Dr. Seuss.
The Intelligence of Emotions: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum on How Storytelling Rewires Us and Why Befriending Our Neediness Is Essential for Happiness
“Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.”
Jared Diamond on the Root of Inequality and How the Mixed Blessings of “Civilization” Warped Our Relationship to Daily Risk
What the distribution of wealth and power in the world has to do with the most dangerous act in your day: taking a shower.
Simone Weil on Science, Quantum Theory, and Our Spiritual Values
“When someone exposes himself as a slave in the market place, what wonder if he finds a master?”
William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and What Enables Us to Transcend Our Limits
“Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake… We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.”
The Science of Why We Cry and the Three Types of Tears
What stress hormones have to do with the social machinery of sympathy.
Pride, Prejudice, and the Provisions of Privilege: Margo Jefferson on Race, Depression, and How We Define Ourselves
“Privilege is provisional. Privilege can be denied, withheld, offered grudgingly and summarily withdrawn. Entitlement is impervious to the kinds of verbs that modify privilege.”
Albert Einstein’s Love Letters
“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life — in short, without you, my life is no life.”
Adam Smith’s Underappreciated Wisdom on Benevolence, Happiness, and Kindness
“Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.”
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