Several similar contests with the petty tyrants and marauders of the country followed, in all of
which Theseus was victorious. One of these was called Procrustes or the stretcher. He had an
iron bedstead on which he used to tie all travellers who…
The intricacies of anxiety have continued to capture the attention of some of the world’s greatest scientists, scholars, and critical thinkers. In 1953 Rollo May stated in Man’s Search for Himself that the “middle of the twentieth century is…
machines and airplane tickets. Discomfort is a predictor of musculoskeletal injuries
and should be reduced in situations that consume a significant part of our time.
However, there is no such thing as a general notion of comfort or…
In today’s communities, people frequently have different ideas regarding how to solve various issues. These differences can make for creative solutions or can spiral into conflict with others. Developing comfort with conflict and skill in managing…
Y ou may not have decided yet what you want to be in the future. And you don’t have to decide right away. You do know that right now you are interested in teaching. Do any of the statements below describe you? If so, you may want to begin thinking…
Driving is a complex, multitask activity. Despite this, it is not unusual to see drivers
engage simultaneously in other nondriving tasks. The potential consequences of
doing so were borne out in a landmark incident that occurred on the morning of…
I fi rst met Dr. Evelin Lindner in December 2001 when she was the speaker
at a Colloquium of the Peace Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. I was attracted to the colloquium by the title of her talk,
“Humiliation and the…
In this book Mark Wynn argues that the landscape of philosophical
theology looks rather different from the perspective of a reconceived
theory of emotion. In matters of religion, we do not need to opt for
objective content over emotional form or…