Is your cell phone making you a jerk? Time reports on studies showing cell phone use reduces our interaction with those in need right in front of us. "So why would an innocuous thing like making a cell phone call make a person less giving? The researchers think it has to do with feelings of social connectedness. All humans have a fundamental need to connect with others — but once that need is met, say by using a cell phone, it naturally reduces our inclination to feel empathy or engage in helping behavior toward others."
How to Order the Most Expensive Starbucks Drink Possible.
Susanna Schrobsdorff explains why the laptop-shooting dad resonates with so many parents
There are 300 other candidates running for President if Obama or those in the Republican primaries don't suit you.
Do you engage in neophilia? “Novelty-seeking is one of the traits that keeps you healthy and happy and fosters personality growth as you age,” says [psychiatrist] C. Robert Cloninger....“It can lead to antisocial behavior,” he says, “but if you combine this adventurousness and curiosity with persistence and a sense that it’s not all about you, then you get the kind of creativity that benefits society as a whole.”
The memory loss, stress, and general fuzzy-headedness of the prenatal period may actually have a crucial role in getting women ready to be mothers. Here's an explanation.
Bobby Ross at GetReligion alerted me to this front-page story of a large, historic Memphis church going through the process of excommunicating a church member for gossip. The story is largely sympathetically told from the accused gossip's point of view, so the editor's later editorial defending the story supplies information you'll need to make a fair judgment of the case. (And Ross at GetReligion has a point when he asks why information inside the editorial didn't make it inside the front-page story to start with.) This story is all about gossip, church discipline, when enough-is-enough with someone's contentiousness, and handling church affairs within the church when at all possible. I expect it warrants a Get Anchored post all its own.
Last Week's "Get Anchored" Posts
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"They oppose the government's attempt to coerce them into facilitating the practices they preach against"
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