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COMMENT: Is There An Objectification Double Standard?

In recent months I have heard two anecdotes that share a common theme, a theme that I find shocking and disturbing. The theme runs something like the following: Increasingly mothers are being pressured by the system (which I will define in a moment) to place their children on behavioral drugs—drugs more powerful than cocaine in […]

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Nicholas Carr (Survey) Results Show

About two weeks ago we launched a Zoomerang survey to collect feedback information from participants who attended the Foundation’s RYOL Lecture by Nicholas Carr on February 17th, 2012. Mr. Carr spoke about his 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. As mentioned in my February 24th, 2012, post, Mr. Carr’s lecture […]

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Nicholas Carr RYOL Lecture Well Attended & Received

As reported here previously, on February 17th, 2012, the FHL Foundation brought Nicholas Carr—author of the 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains—to Albuquerque to speak as a part of the Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. This lecture benefitted St. Martin’s Hospitality Center, which received a grant check for […]

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FHL Foundation Makes Winter 2012 Grants

The following is a listing of the grants approved by the board at the FHL Foundation’s winter board meeting on February 14th, 2012: 1) The Bridges Project for Education – $25,000 DESCRIPTION – Research confirms that disparities in college access disproportionately affect minority students and lower-income families. Bridges addresses the structural barriers facing these under- represented […]

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UPDATE: The Tao of Brain Plasticity

There’s not a month that goes by that I do not receive a brochure on yet another workshop on how all manner of mental health therapy has the potential to change the brain, “rewire brain circuitry” is the metaphor most often used. These brochures conjure up images of psychotherapists wearing tool belts and sporting butt […]

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