The Quest for Significance Can Lead to Extremes

In 2021, several psychologists made an in-depth study into what drives people to political and social extremes. This can result in beliefs in a wide range ...

New Yorkers Discover Rural Life Isn’t ‘Greener Grass’

During COVID-19, New York City residents started moving into the country. The 13,000-plus member Facebook group “Into the Unknown” unites ...

Baseball Rookie Reconsiders Quitting After Demotion

When Dominican catcher Yermín Mercedes made his Major League Baseball debut for the Chicago White Sox, he impressed fans and team officials alike ...

This Password Changed a Life

One morning Mauricio Estrella walked into the office, sat down at his desk, and was greeted with the message: “Your password has expired. Click ...

Americans Are Living in A Big ‘Anger Incubator’

Americans are angry. The country erupted into the worst civil unrest in decades after the death of George Floyd, and anger about police violence and the ...

Why Your Brain Hates Slowpokes

Are you impatient with slowpokes and frustrated by waiting? If so, you will identify with what Chelsea Wald wrote in a recent article:

Not long ago I diagnosed ...

Man Burns Down Shed to Protest Missing Stimulus Check

A Louisiana hothead was so enraged that he hadn’t received his COVID-19 stimulus check, he set his mom’s shed on fire. 51-year-old Marvin ...

College Student Longs to Be ‘Special’

In his article, "The Deeper Roots of Youth Anxiety," College Professor Joseph E. Davis tells the story about one of a growing number of students ...

When Discontent, Consider the Lily

The 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard told the following parable:

There once was a lily who lived a happy life beside a rippling brook. ...

Wild Brawl at Buffet over Crab Legs

Hungry patrons at a local buffet in Alabama took “hangry” (hunger combined with anger) to a new level when a fight broke out allegedly over ...