Let's mine neuroscience to develop a set of powerful conservation tools that educators, advocates, policymakers and scientists can use to better and more deeply engage, inspire and lead people in the restoration and protection of our beloved ocean.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
"Lars von Trier isn't going to talk to a lot of press." Yeah, yeah; yadda-yadda. But just because he isn't talking to us doesn't mean we can't talk about him, particularly about his childhood.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.08.2009 | Entertainment
I've got nothing against sports films that exult in good sportsmanship and the triumph of the underdog. But I'm more inclined towards films like The Damned United that scrape past the noble veneer of sports.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment
Director Florent-Emilio Sari definitely has a knack for playing the audience. He makes the most of his Moroccan locations, finding an eerie beauty in the barren landscape.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.02.2009 | Entertainment
A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says.
Dan Persons | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment
Michael Almereyda is no stranger to toying with film form. His latest documentary, the deceptively free-form Paradise, is an affecting -- dare I say, paradisiacal -- experience.
Robin Lakoff | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Republicans have gotten the trademark on the two most potent words at our disposal. They are the ones who decide what those words mean: who can use them, about what, in what context.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media
The media is not completely responsible for the state of the debate over healthcare reform. The Democrats have done such a poor job of presenting their case that they really bear the lion's share of blame.
Karen Leland | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
Today was a four snooze alarm morning. Between the cold I caught from a fellow guest at a friend's dinner, deadlines for clients and editors looming o...
ABC News | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
The truth, according to the popular television show "Lie to Me," is "written all over our faces," but psychologists say that visual clues are only one...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living
Every Wednesday is Tip Day. This Wednesday: Nine tips for having a good bad day. A few days ago, I was extremely upset. It's too complicated to expla...
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 08.12.2009 | Living
Some people I know are exquisitely sensitive. Every hurt, harm, or horror imprints their impressionable soul(s). Meanwhile others laugh it off, tough it out, shut down, deny, or resolutely move on.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 08.05.2009 | Living
I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. ...
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living
Talking about the right brain as the way of the future is a step backwards to a time when intuitive impressions about the brain were all we had.
Tom Morris | Posted 06.18.2009 | Home
The wisest people who have ever thought about positive achievement have left us bits and pieces of powerful advice for attaining true success in anything we do.
Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.08.2009 | Living
How does your brain work? Why doesn't it work the way you want it to? Can you make it work better (or at least differently)? Are you in charge of y...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.22.2009 | Living
Feeling blue because of the financial crisis? Or just having an extremely lousy day? Here are nine strategies that can boost your mood right now in a happiness emergency.
Tamar Abrams | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living
My child's increasing self-reliance has given me the time to reflect on my parents' lives. I've always been grateful to have arrived at midlife with two vital parents who live nearby.
H. Candace Gorman | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living
My client, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi, told me during one of our first visits about a flower that was outside his cage at Guantanamo, just sticking out of the desert terrain, by itself.
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 03.03.2009 | Living
Once we make our emotions conscious through thinking about them, we can begin to understand our feelings about them so that they can be brought into insight and balance.
Dr. Nicholas Perricone | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living
The simple stroking of a dog or cat has been proven to lower heart rate, decrease stress and anxiety, and lower respiratory rate and blood pressure.
Rob Kall | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
I've been thinking about the tears of joy, that feeling of choking up, the chill up the back of the neck, of sympathy and empathy, for a few decades.
Jamil Zaki | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Why would we have evolved to feel each other's pain? Two aspects of empathy can help explain this, and the reason that evolution may have selected for strong empathizers in the first place.
Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
Some will say "No Name-Calling Week" is more accurately called "PC Police Week." After all, an offensive term over the dinner table might be applauded in a rap song.
Keely Field | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
I was one of the thousands of purple ticket holders who survived "The Tunnel of Doom on 3rd Street," as it's known to those of us who suffered through the most disappointing day of our lives.
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.09.2009 | Impact