Thankfully (having just returned from an exhausting roadtrip to Amelia Island, Florida), I had a rather restful New Year’s Eve celebration, one which entailed watching CNN’s countdown with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. They have been doing this now for over five years and what keeps people watching […]
As 2013 begins, let us contemplate where we have been and where we are going in the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Below are ten key events of 2012 that will not only shape the character of 2013, but also shape the future of the HIV/AIDS prevention and […]
Everyone has a year-end retrospective. Let’s join that bandwagon. Here is a retrospective on some of the events and studies that highlighted the psychological, scientific and health context of the times. Some events went viral (Item number 1); some studies went relatively unnoticed (as most research articles do). […]
As a psychologist and perhaps as an armchair anthropologist, I really enjoy road trips. I have traveled cross country four times, road-tripped through Canada and the entire continental west coast. I have road-tripped individual states such as Hawaii, Kentucky, North Carolina, and New York. There is much you […]
The Psychology of the gift of Laughter on this Christmas Day “The objective world has vanished and is forgotten, the proprieties and even the presence of others are lost, and the soul is all eye and ear to the one laughable object. Care, trouble, and even […]
In 1980, the movie The Final Countdown is released to great reviews and stars Martin Sheen- the actor of Apocalypse Now. Ahem, coincidence? The Final Countdown is a science fiction movie in which a Navy crew is transported by a supernatural storm to the day before the 1941 […]
Who gets on the naughty list? Who gets crossed off the list? What does it mean to get crossed off? I have been making a list since mid-November of all the people I was going to give a Christmas gift to. Santa Claus keeps a list going of all those […]
Back in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries when individuals more readily shared home spaces, sometimes the pocket was the only personal space people had. Thus, the pocket has historically been a keeper of secrets, lies, and desires along with an accounting of what people possessed. The pocket, […]
In my suburban block, we are now starting to shield ourselves. We are putting up curtains where before we had none. See the back of our houses face a forest. Only deer, raccoons, chipmunks, bluejays and rabbits tend to frequent our yards. Until now, again. See, a mentally […]
I have a simple question for you, dear reader? What does MSM mean to you? When you hear the phrase MSM, do you think of Methylsulfonylmethane? Perhaps, if you are into dietary supplement or have osteoarthritis. More specifically, Methylsulfonylmethane is an organosulfur compound with the formula (CH3)2SO2 that […]
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