Category: mental health
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Bryan A. Stevenson
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week, we honor Harvard lawyer, human rights activist, professor, author, and…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Why the Human Lifespan Ends at 122 “The oldest human to have ever lived died at the age of 122—and that was nearly 20 years ago. A recent analysis of global demographic data suggests this may very well be the maximum age attainable by humans, and that it’s extremely unlikely anyone will ever live much…
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American Idiocracy
Dumb it Down? The infamous and incredible comedian George Carlin once said: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” He was talking about his fellow American citizens. T.V. host, comedian, and lizard man, Bill Maher often comments on the average American’s level of intelligence or…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Everette Taylor
Welcome to the second edition of the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profile. Each week, we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week, we honor marketing guru, entrepreneur, and…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
12 police officers injured during North Carolina protests “Protests erupted overnight Tuesday into Wednesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, after a police officer shot and killed an African-American man while looking for another person who had an outstanding warrant.” #NorthCarolina#BlackLivesMatter#KeithLamontScott 375 Top Scientists Warn Us Not To Vote For Trump Hundreds of the world’s leading scientists,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
I’m an American woman living in Delhi. ‘Don’t date the locals’ is horrible advice. Because, much to the contrary of that insulting advice I received while studying abroad here the first time, falling in love with people who are different from you is the only way to find real community in another culture. And learning…
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The New Mis-Education of the Negro
A Brief History Lesson In November 2008, America elected the first person of color to the highest office in the land. Many media and political pundits were claiming that America had reached the point of becoming a post-racial society. Since white folks voted in such large numbers for a black man, the country had supposedly…
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The Week In Stories Around The Globe
THE LEGACY OF LYNCHING, ON DEATH ROW “In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It guarantees legal representation to every inmate on the state’s death row.” #DeathRow#NewJimCrow#Injustice#Race Scientists have a scary theory about why human vision evolved to…
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Half of the Sky
Cloudy Skies Ahead During my young and single days, like most 20 somethings, I was looking for love in all the wrong places. But I had fun while looking. I was at a bar one night in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. I met a young nurse we’ll call “Rose.” She was sitting alone at the…
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Lockdown: Orange is the New Black Goes Dark
On June 17th, 2016 Netflix released the fourth season of their hit show Orange is the New Black. This season of the show took on many hard-hitting topics, such as racism, prison privatization, CO brutality, and sexual trauma. This controversial season has sparked many online debates, with some critics calling it ‘ trauma porn’, a…
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