‘If you’re not failing, you’re probably not trying as hard as you could be “All the failures I’ve overcome? That’s much more important than any successes. I had to repeat ninth grade. I had to repeat the beginning of graduate school. I lost my major source of funding...
What’s Old is New Again: Wicca on the Rise in America The number of self-identified Wiccans increased from from 134,000 in 2001 to 342,000 in 2008. About 5.9 percent of Americans followed a non-Christian faith in 2014, up from 4.7 percent in 2007, according to the Pew...
Depression is a worldwide epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical depression within their lifetimes, and the rate is increasing with every generation. But it...
Over 46,000 people in the US died last year from opioid overdose. Suicide rates are at all time highs. A pharmacist told me that when he began his career 30 years ago, he rarely prescribed anti-depressants. Today, it is the number one prescription he fills. What is...
Students Struggle to Read Entire Books I read somewhere that all knowledge is socially-mediated. We consume information from a variety of formal and informal sources and, of course, much of our learning is now through digital channels. Here is an interesting...
It may be old news that coloring books for adults are in vogue again. And some believe it is due to nostalgia. Perhaps, but here are a few other possible reasons and their implications for communicators: 1. People are visual but they also learn more when writing and...
