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Harvard Professor Worries 'Is Life Cosmically Irrelevant?'
Harvard professor James Wood, in a New Yorker article "Is That All There Is?" tells of a friend, a philosopher and a convinced atheist, who ...
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The Painting that Saved Bill Murray's Life
The actor Bill Murray claimed that a work of art once saved his life. He was in Chicago for his first experience as an actor. Murray said, "[My performance] ...
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A Rising Plague of Melancholy
Research reveals that depression is now the most common serious medical or mental health disorder in the United States. According to the World Health ...
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Mountaineer Felt Grief in His Physical Heart
Men's Health portrayed the life of a man who believed his heart attack was caused primarily by grief. Acclaimed mountaineer Conrad Anker and his team ...
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Without Hope, Suicide Rates Rise
In a powerful article titled "Dying of Despair," psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty observes the startling rise in deaths from suicide and drug overdoses. ...
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African 'Friendship Bench' Helps the Depressed
A Friendship Bench is quite literally a park bench—with a higher calling. In Zimbabwe, friendship benches are located on the grounds of medical ...
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Poet Langston Hughes on Broken Dreams
In the 1920s a young African American writer moved into New York City to join what became known as the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of creativity ...
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Heartbreak Looks Like Drug Withdrawal in the Brain
A few years ago, Yeshiva University neuroscientist Lucy Brown and her research team distributed flyers across several campuses in the New York area to ...
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Scientific Studies on the Consequences of Secrets
The Bible has a lot to say about confession of sin and confessing our needs to one another. Harboring deep and painful secrets is damaging spiritually, ...
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The Tin Man on the Blows that Kill Our Heart
In the original fairy tale version of The Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman had once been a real man who was in love with a beautiful maiden and dreamed of ...
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