On a summer evening, after shucking shellfish in a factory all day, Yakelin Soto Ortiz rides the bus to Olneyville, walks into Clinica Esperanza and takes a seat in an exam room. When two doctors enter, she explains in Spanish that she has...
We’re taught that giving is superior to receiving. Valuing giving is a helpful corrective to human narcissism . Seeing what others need to be happy is a beautiful act of kindness, which also fulfills us as nothing else can. ...
The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, one of the largest investigations ever conducted to assess the effects of trauma on children, found that almost two-thirds of children are at risk for at least one adverse childhood experience, which could...
Each year, the United States spends $80 billion1 to lock away more than 2.4 million people in its jails and prisons2—budgetary allocations that far outpace spending on housing, transportation, and higher education.3 But costs run deeper...
As a remarkable new photo archive of urban transformations shows, making city streets more user-friendly doesn’t have to be that complicated. The archive put together by Brazilian urban design collective Urb-i houses a collection of...
University of Florida Health researchers have uncovered more evidence of a link between the brain's stress response and a protein related to Alzheimer's disease. The research, conducted on a mouse model and in human cells, found that a...
It’s one of our nation’s most depressing claims to fame, on par with our stunning guns per capita figure or gargantuan prison population : The United States is one of just three countries in the world...
Minnesota the attached resolution read on the floor of the House of Representatives at the end of the 2015 legislative session. We urge other states to do the same! We now are targeting county commissioners statewide. Awareness and education...
Asylum seekers held offshore are continuing to self-harm, attempt suicide and go on hunger strike, and grow more depressed the longer they are held on Manus and Nauru, new data from International Health and Medical Services reveal....
Policy based on fear may be expedient for politicians and profitable for the media and the security sector, but it is generally bad policy. Modern attitudes toward jihadist terrorism are a good example. By design, terrorism has always grabbed...
If Jeimy Carrasco had $50 million, she would remake Roosevelt High School into a place of smaller classes and stronger student-teacher relationships, and put an end to droning lectures and dry textbooks in favor of more active learning....
A doctor’s training hasn’t historically focused on sensitivity. And too often while juggling heavy workloads and high stress, they can be viewed as brusque, condescending or inconsiderate. A 2011 study, for instance,...
On the front of Jenny Lawson’s book is a stuffed raccoon looking like the most thrilled guest at a surprise birthday party. Arms outstretched, mouth fixed in an ecstatic grin, this is a raccoon determined that the evening will...
Damian Jackson weighed two pounds when he was born. The doctors told his mother, Veronica Worley, that he’d have to stay in the hospital for 90 days, inside a tiny incubator, until his body was ready to fend for itself in the...