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Hope in a Troubled World
Helping others can provide hope during global crises and uncertainty. Instead of focusing on foolish, self-serving, and dangerous global events, we can improve the world around us. In…
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The Aging Brain
The developing brain proceeds systematically and progressively. Those with an aging brain are increasing in number. In 2020, 55.6 million (17%) of individuals in the United States were…
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Mild Cognitive Decline
An ancient legend tells of Damocles, a courtier in the service of Dionysius II, who coveted the pleasures of royalty. Saracen magic placed him at the king’s table…
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Reframing the Way We Think
Perspective can keep us alive or cause death. Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, MD, an Auschwitz survivor and author of Man’s Search for Meaning, wrote about a fellow inmate rendered…
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The Moral Code
There are roughly two accounts regarding the universe: 1) The materialistic/atheistic explanation posits that matter and space were created spontaneously and that thinking creatures evolved by some fluke…
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How to Agree
In this time of political discord, I remember Abraham Lincoln’s words before the Civil War. He wrote, “Americans, all, we are not enemies but friends—We have sacred ties…
