💬 Communication

• 🗣️What’s the Word?

  How gossip evolved from a term of kinship to a tool for social bonding and information sharing, tracing its journey from Shakespeare to evolutionary psychology.

• 👪The Center for Parent and Teen Communication

  Aided by loving, balanced parenting, adolescence is much more than something to be gotten through

• 🗣️The Art of Meaningful Conversations

  Pushing the brain beyond its evolutionary constraints, one conversation at a time.

• 🌍Freedom Forum Global Expansion

  From Oslo to Johannesburg and beyond, writing the next chapter for a storied human rights gathering

• 🤝Faith, Politics, and Intellectual Humility

  A public symposium on the prospects for civil discussion

• 🎨About complaining

  James Murphy reflects on the power of creativity in expressing dissatisfaction.

• 🤝Giving itself is a gift

  A reflection on the dynamics of giving and receiving, exploring the deeper connections formed in times of disaster.

• 💻I’m crushing your addiction!

  A study reveals the impact of virtual reality on reducing tobacco addiction through a unique method of physically engaging with simulated cigarettes.

• 🎨One thing that’s dangerous for an artist

  Quoting Federico Fellini.

• 🎶Music, walking, and the power of presence

  Exploring the profound connection between movement, music, and empathy in Parkinson's disease.

• 😷Who was that masked man?

  A reflection on the social impact of masks during the swine flu outbreak.

• 📺Less is more

  A reflection on how limiting technology can boost creativity, with a nod to the simplicity of a no-button remote.

• ✍️Speechless and renewed

  A reflection on the dual nature of poetry's impact, highlighting both its limitations and its profound significance.

• 🤔The price of irony

  A thought-provoking exploration of the nature of irony and its impact on moral reasoning.

• 🎭Network ≠ community

  Exploring the nuanced impact of recommender systems on cultural diversity and individual experiences.

• 🎨Image vs. presence

  A reflection on the complexities of art and perception from Lawrence Weschler's dialogues with David Hockney and Robert Irwin.

• 📱Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Shawn Baldwin

  A glimpse into the lives of young Saudi men navigating relationships through technology.

• ⏳Unix, five hundred years on

  A reflection on the enduring nature of cultural creations and the unexpected permanence of what was once deemed temporary.

• 💸“Did you send the money to papa?”

  A look at the innovative mobile money transfer services reshaping lives in India.

• 😢Part of why we’re holding off, for the moment, on hosting traditional comments on this site

  Reflecting on Rozanov's critique of Herzen and the paradox of emotional impact in literature.

• 🎭Txt in contxt

  A reflection on the playful nature of texting and its linguistic creativity, featuring insights from linguistics professor David Crystal.

• 👶You can call me Al

  Reflecting on evolving parental nicknames and the cultural influences behind them.