Thinking With Somebody Else's Head

Neurosis, sado-masochistic behavior, schizo-paranoid personalities. We've come to understand those terms applied to personal psychology....

I wish I had a dollar for every piece of advice in the world about today's topic. Apparently, men are from Mars and women from Venus. Th...

Some see it as a belief in your abilities and talents. Others that it's the result of what you've been told and taught. We've he...

I was looking up synonyms for love the other day - arguably one of the most important words in the English language. As a verb, the word has...

It's being called the great secret of the universe, passed down through the ages, the secret to unlimited joy, health, money, relationsh...

Our world is dominated by it. And so we tend to believe it's natural. Even that it's divinely ordained. It's created billionaire...

We dream about it. We visualize it. We hire coaches to help us achieve it. We jeer at the soap opera villain who sells his grandmother to ge...

Human beings have been raising kids forever. There are oceans of words on the subject. Mountains of theories. Even comic strips. You can pay...

The greatest revolutions in human history have all had one over-riding objective in mind: freedom. Of expression. Of religion. Freedom from ...

After all the research and new ideas emerging in the area of health and wellness, it's safe to say we haven't fully understand the i...

The latest studies on depression tell us that the chemicals in our brains have gotten all screwed up, or that we've inherited the damn t...

When Sigmund Freud postulated that no mortal could keep a secret, that the betrayal of our real intentions oozes out of our every pore, it w...

Love. How much do we really know about it? We've got love shops, love food, love travel. Love inspires us. Some say it even destroys us....

As we explored in our last program about AIDS, the common beliefs about its causes are turning out to be myths. Omni-present, to be sure. Do...

It's common knowledge that HIV is the cause of AIDS, that it's sexually transmitted and that there's no known cure. Arguing agai...

Quantum physics critique I just got in from watching “What the Bleep Do We Know?” at my friend’s place. While it’s a pretty cool movie graph...

In 1831, a young man with a weak stomach set off for 5 years as an unpaid naturalist onboard the HMS Beagle. The conclusions he reached on t...

Many times in my English classes here in São Paulo, a student will make a comment that seems to me to strike right at the heart of a fundame...

I moved from New York City to São Paulo in the summer of 2001 with a six-month return ticket. I'm still here. Best laid plans and all th...