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...things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time," writes Winifred Gallagher, author of the new book Rapt. There are things you can't control: the family you are born into or your genes, for example. But that's not important. What is important is what you attend to, those things or people you consciously choose to set your mind on. Defined in the broadest sense of the word, "attention" and focus" can extend to anything. Are you focused on living...
Maia Szalavitz is a freelance journalist in New York City and author of the book Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead...
...Social emotions call up so much about your own episodic memory - self and space and time," says co-author Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, an assistant professor of educational psychology at USC. "When all of those things are activated together, your memories, your plans for the future, it kind of converges at this center part of the brain...
...female detective in Botswana, and the “Sunday Philosophy Club” series, featuring the philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, as well as serial fiction works. In his talk, “How to Do Things with People who Aren’t: The Moral Responsibility of the Author,” McCall-Smith used examples from his work and life to illustrate the thorny relationship between an author and his readers. “[McCall-Smith] is a great writer who also has a background in law and medical ethics, and we wanted him to bring those disparate strands...
...Bush, a liberal welcomed by most of Latin America who is far harder for Chávez to attack as a yanqui imperialista. "I think Chávez may be trapped at the Trinidad summit," says Nikolas Kozloff, who endorses Chávez's social policies and is the author of Hugo Chávez: Oil, Politics and the Challenge to the U.S. "Populism thrives on conflict, but now with Obama in power, that's more difficult to achieve." After Washington and Caracas expelled each other's ambassadors last year, Kozloff adds, "Chávez faces a difficult choice: either...