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How Students' Brains Are in Danger on the Field

By Linda Flanagan — 2017

Research makes clear the drastic effects of head injuries on young athletes, and advocates are asking states and schools to do more.

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Advice to Parents on Raising a Happy and Healthy LGBTQ Child

When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse.

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Steven Petrow
2020
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What Does it Mean to Be Creative at the End of the World?

A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.

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Saeed Jones
2021
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Your Brain Predicts (Almost) Everything You Do

Cutting-edge neuroscience shows that your brain isn’t built for thinking—it’s made to predict your reality, and you have more power over that perception than you might think.

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Lisa Feldman-Barrett
2021
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7 (and a Half) Myths About Your Brain

Neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman-Barrett busts common misconceptions about how the mind works, from left and right brains to how your memory works.

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Lisa Feldman-Barrett
2021
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Your Brain Secretly Works With Other Brains

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains some of the ways your brain is constantly changing itself (usually without your awareness) as you interact with other people.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2021
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How to Divide Chores Among Your Kids

Dividing chores among your kids in an organized and effective fashion is important for their development and important for your sanity as a parent.

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Rachel Gurevich
2021
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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.

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Paul Bloom
2021
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How climate action and wellbeing go hand-in-hand in Bilbao

In the latest in our series of articles leading up to COP26, Mayor of Bilbao, Juan Mari Aburto, tells SmartCitiesWorld how the city council is building wellbeing metrics into its sustainability and climate action plans for the long term.

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Luke Antoniou
2021
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Is It Self-Care, or Is It Capitalism?

So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.

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Ijeoma Oluo
2021
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How Does Sleep Influence Cancer Risk?

Getting enough sleep is important for overall health and may be related to cancer risk.

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Elaine K. Howley
2018
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