Teens Volunteer to Serve Those Who Die Alone

NPR reported on a man named Mike Pojman, the assistant headmaster and senior adviser of Roxbury Latin Boys' School. Pojman was inspired by a program ...

How Many Facebook Friends Are Real Friends?

How many of your Facebook friends are real friends? In other words, how many of your online friends would help if you were in trouble? Professor of evolutionary ...

Lawyer Learns That We're All Broken

In his bestselling book, Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, tells the story of Jimmy Dill, a convicted murderer who had ...

What Happened to Face-to-Face Conversations?

In an article in The New York Times, communications expert Sherry Turkle asks, "What has happened to face-to-face conversation in a world where so ...

Eugene Peterson on Need for Community

"There can be no maturity in the spiritual life, no obedience in following Jesus, no wholeness in the Christian life, apart from an immersion in, ...

Let's Have Conversations

For more than 40 years, and for over 22,000 segments, Terry Gross has been the host of "Fresh Air." She is an expert on talking to people, which ...

Mozart Worked Hard to Be Creative

In 1815, Germany's General Music Journal published a letter in which allegedly Mozart described his creative process:

When I am, as it were, completely ...

Our Brains Are Wired to Connect with Others

A 72-year-long study conducted at Harvard tracked what really makes human beings happy. The study's longtime director, George Vaillant, when asked ...

Katie Couric Warns Grads of 'Constant Connectivity'

In a 2015 commencement speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, journalist Katie Couric offered graduates the following advice on our obsessions ...

Surveys Reveal an Erosion of Social Trust

In the past 40 years in the U.S. we've witnessed a massive decline in our openness to trust other people. A recurring survey asks people, "Generally ...