Meetings for people who suffer from social anxiety and loneliness As many others have written, there are different kinds of introverts. Some introverts, possibly even most, enjoy their time alone. It gives them freedom from the distractions and demands of other people — freedom to be creative and to pursue…

Are they wise? Many of us with light-colored skin and raised in comfortable economic circumstances have nostalgia for “the good old days” when life seemed simpler, slower, and more enjoyable. …

There is no evil in nature, only danger “Evil” is an old concept, often associated with non-human characters like devils and demons. But we also apply it to people who perform particularly destructive actions toward other people. The concept of evil implies intention. We don’t usually describe natural disasters like…

What we need in order to improve our understanding and our behavior Old habits are easy to follow and hard to break. There is comfort in the fuzzy familiar, no matter how good it may be or how damaging it may be in the long run. Old stories can also…

I decided to write this article. Will you decide to read it? — All of nature is full of combining and splitting events, from atoms rapidly combining into molecules and molecules splitting into their atomic parts, to galaxies slowly combining into larger structures, and stars exploding suddenly as supernovae after shining steadily for billions of years. We humans are no exception. We come…

Why do we exist at all? When we ponder the vastness of the universe and our place in it, most of us are filled with mixed feelings of awe, wonder, joy, fear, and (often) humility. Some other animals may experience such feelings, too — we can try to imagine the…