Medical historian Edward Shorter thinks we certainly might be—and that much of the blame can be laid on psychiatrists: Shorter believes that the increase in depression is more a problem of an expanding diagnosis and a surge in self-labeling than a genuine epidemic. Serious mental illness certainly exists, but is often misdiagnosed and ineffectively treated […]
If you can’t seem to stop checking your Facebook feed, it may be a compulsion beyond your control. The Atlantic notes that Internet companies are following the model of tobacco companies–making their products so addictive that you can’t stop: The leaders of Internet companies face an interesting, if also morally questionable, imperative: either they hijack […]
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Google has developed a plan for who controls your digital life after your physical death. Rebecca Rosen explains: Google has now rolled out a technological solution, a euphemistically titled "Inactive Account Manager" tool ("Control what happens to your account when you stop using Google," the company says, i.e. die). With the tool, you set an […]
[pextestim name=”Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” img=”https://quixoticpedagogue.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-9365086-2-402.jpg”]But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million […]