Jay Matthews

Examples of the Bio-Psycho-Social perspectives on nature of stress. "People who are isolated and stressed are more likely to develop disease". Maté posits medicine as an ideology that emphasises the individual and speaks primarily about the causal factors and experience of early high-stress environments within communities . For example, how low... See more

But underlying these facts is an assumption that trees are commodities.Underlying these facts is a human view of time.As the forests shift, can we find opportunities to shift our own understanding?As the trees are pulled into the new patterns of a warming planet, can we learn to embark on our own migration—our own pilgrimage—a journey that slows us... See more

The stress of safety, poverty, and loss stops us from seeing and feeling, it leaves us alienated from ourselves and the world. The four levels of alienation mentioned in this talk are alienation from : 1. Our work, 2. Others, 3. Nature, 4. Ourselves.

"Five years from now, what will your future self think of your current self? Will you even be the same person?"

The rise of professionalized economics makes it useful for organizations to incorporate groups of economists and econometric analyses. Though no one may read, understand or believe them, econometric analyses help legitimate the organization's plans in the eyes of investors, customers (as with Defense Department contractors), and internal... See more

Eroticism resides in the ambiguous space between anxiety and fascination.