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Dogs, Cats, and Other Nonhumans Are Not 'Just Animals"
5+ hour, 27+ min ago (223+ words) Updated March 28, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Humans around the world form deep and varied relationships with other animals, and these connections can shape daily life, emotional well-being, and resilience. Dismissing any nonhuman as "just an animal" isn't as uncommon as…...
Grief, Loss, Abundance, Joy: Finding Refuge in Harsh Times
4+ hour, 10+ min ago (265+ words) Posted March 28, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley "We would stop sometimes and just look out over the terrain" the ridgelines, the valleys, the distances. For a moment, everything would slow down.4 Zen poet, teacher, and translator Peter Levitt, in his book…...
Embracing the Warrior-Guardian Paradox in Modern Policing
1+ day, 10+ min ago (218+ words) Posted March 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina Both sides have valid and justified perspectives. And both sides are incomplete. This is why calls to reimagine policing, however well-intentioned, carry a responsibility: they must be informed by those who know what the…...
Holding Money vs. Seeing the Numbers
21+ hour, 33+ min ago (570+ words) Posted March 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D. Many Americans feel anxious about their financial security, even when their accounts show positive balances. Open your banking app and look at the number on the screen. It reflects your financial security'rent or…...
A Wedding for One, the Birth of a Book, and a Puppy Party
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (290+ words) Posted March 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch Parents-to-be have baby showers. Grandparents celebrate silver, gold, or platinum anniversaries. Kids hit the celebratory jackpot with birthday parties, graduation parties, and parties when they come home from camp. Father's Day, Mother's Day'so much…...
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Jury Selection in the Black Lives Matter Era
1+ day, 31+ min ago (256+ words) Posted March 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Hara Estroff Marano By Cynthia J. Najdowski and Margaret C. Stevenson The first concern is representativeness. National polling shows that attitudes toward BLM vary by race and ethnicity, with more individuals of racial and ethnic minorities than White…...
Everything You Know About Negotiation Is Backwards
22+ hour, 47+ min ago (608+ words) Posted March 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina A few years ago, I was asked to teach mindfulness to a room full of cops at a mandatory training. I should have known from the word "mandatory" how it was going to go....
What Reading Fluency Has to Do With Leadership: Nothing
22+ hour, 43+ min ago (273+ words) Posted March 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Kaja Perina In mid-March 2026, President Trump suggested that California Governor Gavin Newsom should be disqualified from presidential consideration because of his dyslexia'a learning difference Newsom has openly discussed for years. Whether a candidate is qualified for…...
Stop Saving Your Real Life for Later. Start Living It Today
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (842+ words) Updated February 6, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader If there's one thing humans excel at, it's finding increasingly imaginative ways to waste their lives away. Most of us know this trap intimately from first experience to the point where today might just…...