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When pursuing an advanced degree, make up words.  That is what my colleagues and I used to tell one another in the days of theses and dissertations.  The directive might…

Back in 2007, the University of Chicago put out a study examining job satisfaction among American professionals. As the results came in, trends became clear. “The most satisfying jobs are…

A previous supervisor of mine, beloved and idolized in my training years, recently passed away. An affecting memorial gathering reunited me with some old peers, and we once again marveled…

Mourning is a rather inefficient human process. It is notoriously subjective. It shows little uniformity in severity or duration across populations, and so it regularly defies real scientific standardization. It is no…

Chatbot therapists are actually nothing new. In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab created Eliza. It was an early computational model designed to emulate human interaction, in the…

Goes the Vampire Weekend song: Anger wants a voice Voices wanna sing Singers harmonize ‘Til they can’t hear anything I thought that I was free From all that questionin’ But…

We do not talk about suicide much. We tend to procrastinate on the issue; we wait until crises strike. So, those frantic conversations we do have usually claw at ways…