Social Science

Daisy dog was a little rat terrier that lived in our house not too many years ago.  She was graceful and loyal as most rat terriers are with a little streak of impulsiveness running down her back in the form…
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It was a glorious Alaskan spring morning. The remnants of the winter glinted in the sun like diamonds lighting the way for the new life that blossomed all around. In a tiny cave in a small thicket in a vast…
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Most of us occasionally act on impulse and usually live to regret it. A person with an impulsive personality acts on impulse continually.  It will land him or her in some pretty dreadful situations, and if you associate closely with…
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Have you ever seen a pig?  We know that pigs live on a farm in the country, and they live in a big red barn.  Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a pig?   Pigs go…
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It’s amazing to me, that in a country that prides itself, at least publicly, on its encouragement of individuality, that the idea of group-think could ever be thought of as anything other than evil or dangerous.  But, if you look…
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Must-Not-Realize-the-Truth TV: Frankfurt School/Critical Political Economy Theory and Primetime Television The revolution would come. The revolution had to come. Since the arrival of the previous “revolution”the Industrial Revolutionthe economic practice of capitalism exploited the working class. In Karl Marx’s point…
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The Many Talents of Mems the CatHe came into our lives one morning, and immediately showed his first talent. Mems the Cat could speak. Actually, he didn’t use words, but in cat language, he made everything clear. How did Mems…
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Many of its clinicians and researchers believe that psychology first became a science in the late 1800’s when Wilhelm Wundt[1] emancipated it from the schools of philosophy and anthropology.  In 1879, Wundt established the Psychologisches Institut (Psychological Institute), and opened…
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There is dreaming: as the subconscious mind works through new experience and incorporates it to revisit and resolve existing dilemmas. There is daydreaming: creative imagination drawing from deep wellsprings of empathy, or even simply from a wish to temporarily step…
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Several recent studies have suggested that women experience laughter more than men. According to medical experts, laughter isn’t just about having fun – it actually has many health benefits. Studies have shown that the act of laughing can lower blood…
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