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  • Mental Health,  Self-Improvement,  Staying Healthy

    How metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis

    November 10, 2021

    The science of metacognition studies how the mind can understand and control its own processes.   Written by Brendan Conway-Smith, Carleton University Republished with permission from TheConversation.com In these times of virtual meet-ups, negative news overload and widespread uncertainty, it’s fair to say it has been a tough time for our brains. If you’ve been feeling mentally subpar, you may…

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    Brendan Conway-Smith
  • Lockdown affects mental health
    Diseases and Conditions,  Mental Health

    State lockdowns are creating a mental health disaster

    May 16, 2020

    Although state lockdowns have served governors well as a heavy-handed show of force, the policies are a patent neglect of the many nuances inherent in human action. They have led to a host of unintended consequences, including the emergence of a new health crisis—a dangerously sharp rise in mental illness. Though states are gradually wading out of lockdown, the damage…

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    James Ketler
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Environment

    What to do about the antidepressants, antibiotics, and other drugs in our water

    August 11, 2015

    There’s no way around it, the headlines are disturbing. And they come, not from tabloids or click-bait blogs, but from papers published in scientific journals. They describe fish and birds responding with altered behavior and reproductive systems to antidepressants, diabetes medication, and other psychoactive or hormonally active drugs at concentrations found in the environment. They report on opiods, amphetamines and…

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    Elizabeth Grossman
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