Jennifer Baez
@jenniferbaez
Jennifer Baez
@jenniferbaez
Local communities in different parts of the world are making a constructive difference in responding to a plethora of crises: global climate change, political authoritarianism, economic disparities, poverty, war and the threat of nuclear war, consumerism, and a general sense of meaninglness.
They are interested in inner transformation as well as
... See moreWhen we bemoan the lack of originality in the world, we blame it on the absence of creativity. If only people could generate more novel ideas, we'd all be better off. But in reality, the biggest barrier to originality is not idea generation-it's idea selection. In one analysis, when over two hundred people dreamed up more than a thousand ideas for
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The lowest-income households in the U.S. on average spend $412 a year on lotto tickets, four times the amount of those in the highest income groups. Forty percent of Americans cannot come up with $400 in an emergency. Which is to say: Those buying $400 in lottery tickets are by and large the same people who say they couldn’t come up with $400 in an
... See moreThe term “psychological safety” has been around since at least 1999, when Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard University published this influential paper on the subject . In her study, Dr. Edmondson proposed that regardless of its makeup, a team’s success will largely boil down to its members “tacit beliefs about interpersonal interaction,” and whether
... See moreThough this is so many other scientists disagree with the Gaia theory since they feel like it needs more scientific and recorded proof to be legitimate. The scientific idea that Earth is like a cell, whose components (like the nucleus, mitochondria etc) comprise of living and non-living beings resonates with a lot of minds and goes with many
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