Category: The Conversation

  By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Researchers find that the most devoted fans take their team’s defeats personally and often blame losses on the refs or cheating. Sound familiar?

Lifestyle medicine targets the root of chronic diseases like obesity, heart disease and diabetes. Experts explain why everyone should embrace these free prescriptions for good health.

  From the oath-taking on the Bible during the presidential swearing-in ceremony to the ‘awe’ and ‘restraint’ of the early Christian world, the meaning of ‘religion’ has gone

  A psychologist on why we need to think beyond borders

  National security must be redefined to reflect new sources of security threats of the type that occurred at the U.S. Capitol

  It is not just that power checks power, but that each branch performs a distinctive function in co-ordination with the others

  The brain is surprisingly changeable

As vaccination begins to take effect, what we’ll be able to do will change – but the transformation will be slow

The top scientific breakthrough for 2020 was understanding SARS-CoV-2 and how it causes COVID-19 – and then developing multiple vaccines

  What really is the art of gratitude? Joanne Morton, CC BY-NC It’s a new year, which means that it’s also time to imagine new beginnings and better futures. It’s

  By exclusively focusing on the things we think will make us happy, we blind ourselves to the other things in life that matter

  Calling out false information on social media may do more harm than good

  Forget being super self-critical and whipping yourself into shape. There are ways to set yourself up for success that are far kinder and work better

Here’s what we still need to find out before we can know when we’ll be able to return to our pre-coronavirus ways