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Is "Zoom Dysmorphia" Giving Rise to a Plastic Surgery Boom? Michael Stahl, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail For years, Marie, a pseudonymous woman living in the Bay Area, subjected herself to extraordinary levels of vulnerability: She taught English to high school freshmen. “Fourteen-year-olds are some of the most judgemental people on the planet,” Marie says. “I stood in front of them for hours every day and I did not feel the level of self consciousness that I started to feel when I ha...

News from the pandemic front is getting brighter lately. The average number of new infections of COVID-19 has fallen below 100,000 in the U.S. for the first time since November, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of deaths is decreasing sharply, too. In fits and starts, the national vaccine program is expanding. Is everybody happy to see a glimmer of light at the tunnels end? Not quite. No one willed the pandemic and its widespread death and suffering into existence. Still, for s...

A Better Way to Zap Our Brains A Better Way to Zap Our Brains New research suggests that stimulating neurons in the brain can address psychological issues with surprising speed and precision. Credit...Illustration by Ori Toor Published Feb. 24, 2021Updated Feb. 25, 2021 The brain is an electrical organ. Everything that goes on in there is a result of millivolts zipping from one neuron to another in particular patterns. This raises the tantalizing possibility that, should we ever decode those pa...

We should assess the pandemic’s effect in the round, beyond just COVID deaths.

Humanity has progressed quite a lot when it comes to human rights, respect, tolerance, and the like, but there is still a ways to go as inequality and discrimination is still a thing—quite a big one, actually. And the internet has become a bit of a platform for people to share such experiences. Shira (@shirainspired) recently went to Twitter to ask people what was the most unnecessarily ableist thing a teacher ever did to them. For those unaware, ableism means discrimination and social prejud...

Humanity has progressed quite a lot when it comes to human rights, respect, tolerance, and the like, but there is still a ways to go as inequality and discrimination is still a thing—quite a big one, actually. And the internet has become a bit of a platform for people to share such experiences. Shira (@shirainspired) recently went to Twitter to ask people what was the most unnecessarily ableist thing a teacher ever did to them. For those unaware, ableism means discrimination and social prejud...

Physical hoarding has been studied for decades - but now, new forms of digital hoarding are emerging.

By Denise Plante Jan 13, 2021 Tonight Luke Combs opens up about his rise to fame on The Big Interview with Dan Rather. He not only talks about being a country star and how got there, but he also opens up about his struggle with OCD and anxiety. He was diagnosed at a young age and has learned to cope with the intrusive thoughts that are triggered from OCD. Luke worries about dying and health issues. As he got older, he was able to control the anxiety that comes along with those thoughts. Yo...

While the Better Together opens up about his mental health issues, his wife Nicole Hocking reveals that she has contracted COVID-19 and suffered from almost every symptom.

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