February 2014 - Session NotesSession Notes

So… looking for someone to tell you you’re a sinner?
February 28, 2014 Comments Off on So… looking for someone to tell you you’re a sinner?

Huffington Post

While going through the course my classmates and I were given surveys to fill out. One of the questions asked was: “Where or to whom would you turn if you were in crisis?” Popular answers listed were “the emergency room,” “a loved one,” “a mentor,” “a crisis hotline,” and very last on the popularity list was “clergy.” When asked why most people responded that they were afraid they would be told they were a sinner.
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The haunting scars of emotional neglect
February 25, 2014 Comments Off on The haunting scars of emotional neglect

NPR

Researchers began studying the children in Romanian orphanages after the nation’s brutal and repressive government was overthrown in 1989. At the time, there were more than 100,000 children in government institutions. And it soon became clear that many of them had stunted growth and a range of mental and emotional problems.
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Smarter then a 5th grader?
February 22, 2014 Comments Off on Smarter then a 5th grader?

Entrepreneur

Thirteen-year-old Girl Scout Danielle Lei has gainfully confirmed the age-old aphorism, “Location, location, location.”

When the San Francisco tween set up a Girl Scout cookie stand outside of a marijuana clinic called The Green Cross earlier this week, sales were unsurprisingly blazing.
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Still thinking positive?
February 21, 2014 Comments Off on Still thinking positive?

New Yorker –

Moreover, as the journalist Oliver Burkeman noted in “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking,” “Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed when things eventually happen that he can’t persuade himself to believe are good.”
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The power of compartmentalization…
February 18, 2014 Comments Off on The power of compartmentalization…

NY Times –

A study called “Egalitarianism, Housework and Sexual Frequency in Marriage,” which appeared in The American Sociological Review last year, surprised many, precisely because it went against the logical assumption that as marriages improve by becoming more equal, the sex in these marriages will improve, too. Instead, it found that when men did certain kinds of chores around the house, couples had less sex.
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Addicted to erotic materials? Maybe you’re religious…
February 17, 2014 Comments Off on Addicted to erotic materials? Maybe you’re religious…

Huffington Post

In three studies, Grubbs polled people about their strength of faith, religious practices, online porn-viewing habits and moral attitudes about porn. He also gave participants a survey to measure their perception of addiction, asking them to rate how much they agreed with statements like: “I believe I am addicted to Internet pornography;” and “I feel ashamed after viewing pornography online.”
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Is sexual intimacy important to you?
February 15, 2014 Comments Off on Is sexual intimacy important to you?

LA Times

Four years into the study, 534 of the participants completed a questionnaire called the Female Sexual Function Index, or FSFI. A total of 354 reported that they were sexually active at that time.

Four years after that, these women were asked: “During the past six months, have you engaged in any sexual activities with a partner?”
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The day we fight back.
February 11, 2014 2 Comments on The day we fight back.
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Why do we alway shoot the messenger?
February 9, 2014 1 Comment on Why do we alway shoot the messenger?

Vice

As a video posted by Vasiliev on Vimeo notes, PRISM works by “intercepting protocol messages, data such as username, hostname, IP address are publicly displayed.” Exhibit observers who then gaze into the rotating prism can read the disclosed personal information about the people around them.
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Can weed decrease the risk of suicide?
February 7, 2014 Comments Off on Can weed decrease the risk of suicide?

Huffington Post

A team of economists’ newly published report in the American Journal of Public Health suggests states that have legalized medical marijuana may see a reduction in suicide rates in young men.

The researchers took a close look at state-level suicide data over a 17-year period, from 1990 to 2007, from the National Vital Statistics System’s mortality detail files.
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