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Verbal abuse in the workplace is bullying.  And while we won’t hesitate to intervene if we witness a child being bullied, the workplace is a different landscape, isn’t it?  An astounding  72 percent of the adult  Americans are familiar…

As Thomas Jefferson once said, “If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done.” This is why we make speeches, go to job interviews, pitch ideas, and even get down on one knee to propose to a…

It seems like there’s always some new weird pet adventure or problem being explored on the Internet. Stories of late have featured people scaring cats with cucumbers and carrying them in specially-designed backpacks (only one of these…

Journaling seems, especially in this day and age, a little antiquated. When you can find psychiatric help on the Internet and we live in an increasingly globalized, interconnected world, taking time to be introspective might seem a bit…

I love long road trips. Though a glance out my window today still shows Spring in the Rockies, a mix of rain and light snow, or, “snizzle”,  it’s not too soon to plan for summer travel.   And, like most of us,  when I feel safe, I feel…

Recent research co-authored by Kristin Harris, a professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin, unveiled a stunning increase in our brain’s memory capacity. By a cautious  factor of 10,  human memory’s new size  puts it in…