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The Cumulative Stress Hypothesis

Are you aware of the stress in your life?  Can you FEEL it when stressors are building up and you think you may pop? Do you ever feel like you’re right on the verge of a meltdown? I think most of us are familiar with these scenarios. We can only take so much stress. When I was an ecologist, I had a vision for my life’s work. I planned on studying how aquatic ecosystems resist or…

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“Your Freedom is an Illusion” FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 13: Slavery

Freedom is a popular reason for doing a lot of things in the USA. This may be true in other countries, but I live in the US and that’s what I know. People talk about how war is a fight for freedom. Or that freedom of speech allows racism. And how they want to be free from government rule and intervention. To me, none of this stuff is really about freedom. Or, if it is,…

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