Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
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Curiosity drives an urgent desire for answers. But it can also prompt more patience, enabling people to savor moments of discovery.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-spoilers-please-why-curiosity-makes-us-patient/
“It seems like there’s a dog paper every day,” says Alan McElligott, a zoologist at the City University of Hong Kong who has studied the minds of goats and other farm animals. “It’s almost impossible to keep up with it.” What’s worse, others say, most money for livestock research still goes to studies aimed at improving milk or meat yields, not to... See more
ByDavid Grimm • 'Not dumb creatures.' Livestock surprise scientists with their complex ...
Do animals experience mental illness?
Modern science shows animals and humans may experience fear-based anxiety in similar ways.
Modern science shows animals and humans may experience fear-based anxiety in similar ways.
Do animals experience mental illness?
it would appear the plague-clouds are within us, too. They illustrate the interconnectedness of our inner and outer worlds. They betray a certain flimsiness of human agency, painting our decision-making in strokes of environmental influence far bolder than our intuition suggests. And they throw the climate crisis into fresh, stark relief: because,... See more
Clayton Page Aldern • How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
climate change and
The science of intersubjectivity, with its understanding of feelings, embodiment, and companionship, is needed more today than it ever has been. With increasing attention to artificial intelligence and artificial worlds generated through the medium of technology, it is important to remind ourselves of the psychological and biological nature of how... See more
Editorial: Intersubjectivity: recent advances in theory, research, and practice
Those of us who recognize that we’ve been here before are the ones who have to call attention to where we are heading.
Digital feedback loops are helping us see that our media, technology, culture, economy, and natural world all have at least as much of a cyclical character as a linear one.
It’s not a matter of banishing linearity and progress
... See moreAsking people to change themselves instead of changing the work environment around them is a strategy that not only wastes resources but may also infuriate employees, who feel like all the responsibility for dealing with a toxic work environment and unrealistic demands rests on their shoulders alone.
Davia Sills • The End of Workplace Mindfulness Training?
‘I think there are offences that are unforgivable, and that we don’t have a moral obligation to forgive them,
