Miscellaneous
Making it easier to talk with your hands
The 21st century is turning out to be pretty welcoming place for people hard of hearing. In both the arts and the work force, the deaf community is currently getting a chance to shine more than ever before. Meanwhile, technology advances to allow for better communication between the hard-of-hearing Read More...
It’s good to give
We’ve all felt the high that comes from giving. Now, science suggests there is a biological basis for it. When researchers gave subjects some money and a list of causes to which they might contribute and tracked their brain activity when they did so, they found that the mere thought of giving Read More...
Expanding the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
If you’ve ever noticed smoke billowing from a power plant and been concerned about the effect that is having on the environment, don’t worry—you’re not alone. This past June, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the Clean Power Plan, a proposal that endeavors to Read More...
Early bird pricing is ending for the Transformative Studies Certificate Program!
“The transformative studies program is about possibility. Recognizing it. Harnessing it. Living in it.” – Carol Greenhouse, program founder and director If you’re looking for something extraordinary—the best growth year of your life, a chance to advance your career or a way to contribute Read More...
Paraplegic man walks again
In a scientific first, cells from a patient’s own body have been used to heal his spinal cord, allowing him to walk again. The procedure was carried out on Darek Fidyka, a 40-year-old Polish man who in 2010 fell victim to a knife attack that left him paralyzed from the chest down. Polish surgeons Read More...
Africa’s economy is still booming
While many economies throughout Europe and the Americas remain shaky at best, the African economy is doing a lot better. As a whole the African economy is projected to grow 5.2 percent between 2015 and 2016 while continuing to grow through 2017 with projected rates of up to 5.3 percent. These Read More...
Life goes on
What is consciousness, and where is it located? Do our thoughts and actions have lasting effects? What makes up our identities? The answers to questions like these may be revealed in the experience of dying. That’s good and well, you think, but the information comes too late. This isn’t Read More...
Search for meaning
Between 1942 and 1945 psychiatrist Viktor Frankl labored in four Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz. Afterwards he wrote his legendary book Man’s Search for Meaning in which he argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope, find meaning in it, and move forward with Read More...
A county without cell phones and Wi-Fi
After decades of nonstop technological inventions and breakthroughs that have resulted in a world of unstoppable connectivity people are finally stepping back and asking—is this connectivity necessary? Is it good? Pocahontas County in West Virginia is a 942 square mile plot of earth with nearly Read More...
The healing power of laughter
In 1964, American journalist Norman Cousins received a terminal diagnosis. He had a life-threatening form of arthritis, and doctors told him his chance of survival was 1 in 500. Determined not to be one of the 499, Cousins began researching his illness. The hospital gave him a mountain of Read More...