May 9, 2021
Identity “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher and Poet Ideas Worth Exploring 1 How to Motivate Yourself to Change How do we find the motivation to make...
Jun 1, 2020
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old medical student, worked his usual morning shift at St. Mary’s Hospital and took an afternoon train from Paddington Station to Oxford in preparation for a one-mile race against Oxford University. For nearly a decade up...
May 18, 2020
In 1939, Hitler’s Nazi Germany launched an aerial bombing attack on Warsaw, Poland, that would trigger World War II. Shortly afterwards, the Allies retaliated by dropping bombs across Germany, but the vast majority of bombs failed to hit enemy targets. As Nazi Germany...
Jul 1, 2019
In 2011, Mina Cikara, a social psychologist at Harvard University, recruited 18 hardcore baseball fans who supported either the Red Sox or Yankees—arguably the fiercest rivalry in American sports. 1 Cikara, Mina; Botvinick, Matthew M.; Fiske, Susan T. (2011-03-01)....
Feb 28, 2019
In December 1959, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese army intelligence officer, was officially declared dead. 15 years prior, Onoda had been deployed to the small island of Lubang in the Philippines to prevent enemy attacks from the United States. After a six-month extensive...
Feb 21, 2019
As a palliative care-worker, Bronnie Ware had a front row seat to watch the last three to twelve weeks of the lives of terminally ill patients. Over her eight year period caring for the dying, Ware was privy to their darkest moments and last words on their life’s...