Keeping curiosity in an AI world | GUEST COMMENTARY
Opinion: Imagine how many fewer discoveries we would have made had yesterday's thinkers sought answers from AI, writes Patricia Steckler.
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Get outside and curb your ultraprocessed time | GUEST COMMENTARY
Opinion: We can strive to defeat the hollow feelings that come from empty, indoor scrolling on devices by going outside every day for a nature fix.
Gratitude for small talk | GUEST COMMENTARY
Guest commentary: In a nation suffering from loneliness, we too often devalue small talk as superficial, as a waste of breath, writes Patricia Steckler.
Books and grit can save you | GUEST COMMENTARY
Opinion: Reading has declined to historic lows among Americans. That could not be more alarming.
How men, women and the nation can embrace their differences | GUEST COMMENTARY
Maybe the lessons from how a husband and wife can work through their differences can apply to a nation facing extreme polarization, writes Patricia Steckler.
What nurses teach us about empathy | GUEST COMMENTARY
Nurses are too often undervalued, overworked, and rarely care for themselves as selflessly as they tend to others, writes Patricia Steckler.
Memorize poetry to cast away the blues | GUEST COMMENTARY
One way to practice meditation and ward off melancholy is to memorize poems, writes retired psychologist Patricia Steckler.
The key to combating unhappiness in teens | GUEST COMMENTARY
Teens' brains have been rewired by cellphones and social media to seek constant stimulation, writes Patricia Steckler.
We begin to forget as we get older. But we can learn to live with it. | GUEST COMMENTARY
Becoming forgetful is part of getting older, but we can learn to laugh about it, writes Patricia Steckler.
There’s still too much stigma around mental health struggles | GUEST COMMENTARY
The more we disclose our symptoms to friends, family and professionals, the more likely we’ll find support and receive appropriate treatment for these genuine maladies.