What Does it Mean to Be a Kid in the Digital Age? Paula Lee and Yalda T. Uhls Arts & Culture, Psychology Is social media ruining our kids? How much internet activity is too much? What do FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), sexting, and selfies mean for teens? To answer these and other questions, Yalda T. Uhls wrote Media...
Does Well-Being Get Better with Time? Rose Hendricks Psychology Although old age is often depicted in a negative light, studies show that wrinkles and retirement may not be so dismal; in fact, we may even become happier as we grow older.
Telepathy, Possibly? Stephanie Nelli Philosophy, Psychology, Science Imagine a world where our thoughts could be instantly transmitted to machines, computers, and other people's brains.
Teaching from an Inner Place: On Working with Students with Autism Jason Gruhl Education, Psychology “I can still feel the ‘thud’ of the marker thrown at my head. I had been working with Andrew, a student with autism, for about a minute, attempting to get him to write his name on a piece of paper. He became frustrated, threw the marker, and climbed under his desk.”
Lie Down on the Couch, Virtually Phillip Freeman Psychology, Society & Culture Who better than the psychoanalyst to appreciate the liberations and confinements of private, virtual worlds like Second Life? The pathos of simulations that inevitably evoke what these worlds cannot be?
Annoying Song Stuck in Your Head and Don’t Know Why? Here’s Your Answer Georgia Floridou Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Ask Me Anything, Psychology, Science, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Ever wondered why you can’t get a commercial jingle out of your head or why some songs are easier on your ears than others? Now you’ve got your answers. We opened the floor to our Hippo readers and in this, our second Ask Me Anything installment, a researcher on music, mind, and brain, Georgia Floridou, takes on your most pressing questions.
#YOLO Fail: Defining Success in an Age of Excess Zujaja Tauqeer Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Politics & Economics, Psychology, Society & Culture Has the luxury of boundless possibilities paradoxically made timeless human endeavors like getting a job, raising children, and living in a house-with-a-white-picket-fence impossibly difficult? From the cynical rhetoric of economists, environmentalists, politicians, and most remarkably from millennials—the generation defining the #yolo present—it seems that expecting to have a decent, well-paying job and not hate your children might be too much to ask, as highlighted in this curation of 3QD picks.
