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  • 27 Jul 2018
    Meghan Gillen, Elizabeth Daniels, Charlotte Markey

    Body Positive: What We Wish We Knew Back Then

    When we started studying body image, between 14 and 20 years ago, we had a personal interest in the topic.  In some ways, the work has become less personal across time and in some ways it has become more personal.  When middle age is just around the corner, it feels easier to care less about […]

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  • 16 Jul 2018
    Ralph Ellis

    Intellectuals, Totalitarianism, and “Post-Truth Culture”

    Did we, as intellectuals, perhaps unwittingly, play a role in preparing the ground for what is now called “Post-truth Culture”?

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  • 28 Jun 2018
    Stanley O. Gaines, Jr

    How Much of You is Reflected in Your Close Relationships?

    Cambridge author Stanley Gaines, Jr. discusses how much of an influence your partner can have on your own personality.

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  • 5 Dec 2017
    The Late Sigmund Freud by Todd Dufresne

    The Optimistic Freud? Thoughts on Life and Death

    Winning essay written by Michael Poirier… Civilization and Its Discontents represents a continuation of Freud’s work in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, wherein he posited the existence of a death drive that opposes the drive toward life. In doing so, Freud firmly established himself as a dualist that saw life as a struggle between the life and […]

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  • 10 Oct 2017
    Mental Health
    Philip Yanos

    Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential

    Cambridge author Philip Yanos discusses World Mental Health Day and why raising awareness and encouraging people with mental health issues to seek help ultimately has little impact on stigma.

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  • 20 Jun 2017
    Michael Filimowicz, Veronika Tzankova

    Technology and the Liberal Arts

    Michael Filimowicz and Veronika Tzankova introduce their recent title, Teaching Computational Creativity.

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  • 16 Jun 2017
    Raising Children by David Lancy | Cambridge University Press
    David F. Lancy

    Culture and Risky Behavior

    In contemporary western society, risky behavior by male adolescents is seen as maladaptive for the individual and a serious social problem. It may lead to injury or death, delinquent and/or illegal behavior, bullying, rape, STDs, substance abuse and, conflict with authority including parents and poor academic outcomes. “The prevailing conceptual framework for thinking about these […]

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  • 15 Jun 2017
    Maarten Derksen

    How to be Irresistible

    Originally posted on Tact Technology In commercials for AXE deodorant, popular with adolescent boys, its qualities are always advertised in roughly the same way: by showing that a man – however unattractive – becomes irresistible to women when he smells of AXE. This modern variation on the love potion illustrates the kind of fantasy of control […]

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