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A baby is crying in its crib. What does it want? Attention from its parents, of course. The infant in life’s first phase is already demanding recognition. The baby has begun its quest for significance ...

Source: Adobe stock image by Tharun, licensed by Ravi Chandra What to do when “enemies” and hatred make a beeline to our own nervous systems, online and in real life? How do we stabilize our nervous ...

This week’s response to Psalm 103 calls attention to a familiar theme of the Bible, “love.” “Love one another as I have loved you.” Such a claim affords great comfort and consolation in these times.

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. For a word that we use so often, love is a very difficult word for us to define. I looked up love in the dictionary on my ...

We think love is our greatest strength. It makes us laugh in the middle of disasters, gives us courage when the world feels unbearable, and makes life something more than survival. But the Bhagavad ...

Black entrepreneurs and creatives have been tested more than ever in recent years. With excessive layoffs, career pivots, and creativity being integrated with technology, things have been interesting, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Neuroscience tells us that love is caused by ...

When The Terminator and RoboCop hit theaters in the 1980s, Hollywood imagined artificial intelligence (AI) as an existential threat—machines that would dominate, surveil, and destroy us. Four decades ...