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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger How trauma can lead to psychological resilience

Health, Psychology / Ananya Iyengar / February 24, 2022

For thousands of years, philosophers and religions have tried to find hidden meaning in the trials and tribulations of human life. From Greek antiquity and early Hindu texts to Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, we have striven to answer this question: does our suffering have meaning? Many religions and schools of thought hold that hardships are necessary […]

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On the origin of languages: Our Proto-Indo-European roots

World / Ananya Iyengar / October 18, 2021

At first glance, the English, Hindi, Russian, and German languages seem quite different from one another. They use seemingly unique sounds, letters, and ways of translating ideas into words. Thus, it may come as a surprise to learn that these languages are all descended, so to speak, from a common ancestor, much like all the

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The psychology of isolation: A double-edged sword

Health, World / Ananya Iyengar / August 29, 2020

Isolation reveals the human mind at its best … and its worst. Free from some of the distractions and stressors that harangue them, our minds have the time and space to wander a bit. We might find ourselves lost in thought or daydreaming more often. By lifting that which constrains our cognitive processes to the

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