WSJ Oct 12, 2010 A lifetime of speaking two or more languages appears to pay off in old age, with recent research showing the symptoms of dementia can be delayed by an average of four years in bilingual people. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575545923443462444.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

Harvard Magazine June 5, 2008 J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. http://harvardmagazine.com/commencement/the-fringe-benefits-failure-the-importance-imagination

Peter Hartlaub, Chronicle Pop Culture Critic Friday, October 8, 2010 Dan Savage and Terry Miller’s original 8 1/2-minute video, a message to gay teens who might be feeling discouraged or suicidal, has been followed by hundreds more, made by gay men and women of all races, religions and levels of celebrity. Savage said the success […]

By JESSE McKINLEY NYT  Published: October 3, 2010 The case of Tyler Clementi is one of several recent suicides by young gay men who were harassed. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/04/us/04suicide.html

WSJ-Friday, July 23, 2010 Lost in Translation By LERA BORODITSKY New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703467304575383131592767868.html

from TEDGlobal Filmed July 2010 Posted Sept 2010 When Jungian analyst Inge Missmahl visited Afghanistan, she saw the inner wounds of war — widespread despair, trauma and depression. And yet, in this county of 30 million people, there were only two dozen psychiatrists. Missmahl talks about her work helping to build the country’s system of […]

WSJ  –  SEPTEMBER 27, 2010 Seeing the world as black and white, in which choices seem clear, or shades of gray can affect people’s path in life, from jobs and relationships to which political candidate they vote for, researchers say. People who often have conflicting feelings about situations—the shades-of-gray thinkers—have more of what psychologists call […]

By JENNY NORDBERG  Published: September 20, 2010  NYT Under pressure to have sons, some families dress their girls as boys. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/asia/21gender.html

By CLAUDIA WALLIS Sunday, Jan. 09, 2005 in Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1015902,00.html