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Elephants Are Good at Comforting Others. Are We?
A story in the New York Times highlights a recent study, showing that elephants are adept at recognizing when another elephant is in emotional distress. ...
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Surgeon Calls to Thank His Former Teacher
As a middle-school student in the 1980s, Lee Buono stayed after school one day to remove the brain and spinal cord from a frog. He did such a good job ...
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Why Rejection Feels Like Physical Pain
When we experience relational hurts (whether through actions, words, or lack of encouragement), we often use phrases like "She broke my heart," ...
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Nelson Mandela on the Power of Words
It is never my custom to use words lightly. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand ...
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School Bus Driver Stops to Save a Life
On October 18, 2013 in Buffalo, New York, 37-year-old Darnell Barton was driving a bus filled with high school students over a bridge when he spotted ...
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Research Shows Unsolicited Advice Doesn't Help
An article in The Wall Street Journal summarized a series of studies which proved what many people may know from experience—giving advice isn't ...
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Brutally Honest Rejection Letters
The website Business Insider ran an article titled "7 Brutally Honest Job Rejection Letters." Here are two examples of how not to confront someone. ...
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Famous Actor Craved His Parents' Affirmation
Ben Kingsley, the Academy-Award winning actor who has starred in Iron Man 3, Hugo, Schindler's List, and Gandhi, still hasn't forgiven his parents ...
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Jockey Wins by Imputing Goodness to His Horse
Editor's Note: The doctrine of imputation involves the idea that God reconciles sinners to himself by declaring them to be righteous on account of ...
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Parenting Teens: Take Them Up Mount Everest
Imagine that you've chosen to scale Mount Everest. You've shelled out sixty thousand dollars to your Sherpa guides. After a few days, you finally ...
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