Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself
Words have power, and what vocabulary you have at your disposal to describe your relationships with other people can shape what directions those relationships can take.
Georgi Gardiner, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the University of Tennessee Humanities Center (UTHC), University of Tennessee
• conversation
Feb. 12, 2024 • ~10 min
Feb. 12, 2024 • ~10 min
AI ‘companions’ promise to combat loneliness, but history shows the dangers of one-way relationships
Tech companies are offering AI companions as a convenient cure for the loneliness epidemic, but there have been other forms of faux relationships, and they tend to have more to do with ego than heart.
Anna Mae Duane, Director, University of Connecticut Humanities Institute; Professor of English, University of Connecticut •
conversation
Feb. 12, 2024 • ~8 min
Feb. 12, 2024 • ~8 min
Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in the US − yet medical students still don’t receive adequate training to treat suicidal patients
Close to half of those who die by suicide saw a primary care doctor within a month of their death.
Nathaly Shoua-Desmarais, Assistant Dean for Student Success and Well-Being and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University •
conversation
Feb. 1, 2024 • ~11 min
Feb. 1, 2024 • ~11 min
A researcher's prescription for better health care: A dose of humility for doctors, nurses and clinicians
Research shows that when health care professionals work in a collaborative manner, patient satisfaction and outcomes improve.
Barret Michalec, Research Associate Professor of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University
• conversation
Nov. 28, 2023 • ~7 min
Nov. 28, 2023 • ~7 min
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