Complaining Causes Brain Damage

Now here's an interesting take on the need for gratitude (aside from the hundreds of biblical injunctions of course). The magazine Inc. ran an article ...

Journalist Reaches Out To Her Childhood Bullies

Journalist Simone Ellin, editor of Baltimore Jewish Living magazine Jmore, endured relentless bullying in high school, resulting in “low-grade depression, ...

The Jurassic Park Principle

In the film Jurassic Park, after all the wheels have come off and everything has gone wrong, the character Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum, utters ...

The Executive Who Tracked Over 2,000 Co-workers' Verbal Flubs

Mike O’Brien emailed a few hundred colleagues last month to announce his retirement after 32 years at Ford Motor. The sales executive’s note ...

Daily Talk Time Plummets

People are speaking about 3,000 fewer words each day compared to less than two decades ago. Between 2005 and 2018, researchers found the average number ...

Movies Are Getting Deadlier Over Past 50 Years

Movies are getting deadlier – at least in terms of their dialogue. A new study analyzing over 166,000 English-language films has revealed a disturbing ...

Honesty Makes Relationships Stronger, Even When It Hurts

Your relationship can handle way more honesty than you think it can. In fact, a new study from the University of Rochester found that being brutally honest ...

Should You Thank Chat GPT?

A reporter for Business Insider writes:

Recently, my family group chat buzzed when I asked if we should say "please" and "thank you" ...

The Holocaust Started with Words, not Actions

As a prisoner in Nazi death camps during World War II, Lily Engelman vowed that—if she survived—she would one day bear witness to the systematic ...

Media Profanity Fuels Aggression in Youth

When children are exposed to violence on TV and in video games, studies show they tend to become more aggressive themselves. But a study reveals that ...