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The impact of alcohol on global health is hard to encapsulate. In Never Enough: The Neuroscience of Addiction, author and neuroscientist Judith Grisel does her best to highlight the deadly consequences of excessive alcohol consumption.
Spanning five decades, Seinfeld’s Is This Anything? covers everything from bumper cars and cotton balls to Facebook and COVID-19.
In The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, physicist Sean Carroll reminds readers of a mistake we’re all prone to making.
In the sci-fi novel, Starship Troopers, author Robert Heinlein shares his secret to a happy life.
In the 1990s, psychologist Paul Watzlawick was conducting a training seminar when he made the following controversial remarks.
'When people think you’re dying, man, they really, really listen to you instead of just—'
Psychiatrist Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld offer hope to those struggling to overcome a dependence on drugs in their book, Brainwashed.
Ideally, talking is only one component of the therapeutic process. Without corresponding efforts to alter one’s behaviour, a commitment to talking about problems can become its own vice.
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is chock full of wise words. Here are ten of my favourite aphorisms from the book.
If you tend to avoid anxiety-provoking situations, perhaps you remain hopeful that one day you will overcome your fears. For now, though, you continue to tell yourself that you just aren’t ‘ready’ and will try ‘next time’.