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• The Loneliness Panic

  
  Living Single — Authority: 98
  Once again, the loneliness panic is upon us. Before we get too carried away, let’s consider some new data and some neglected perspectives. read more
  3 days ago

• M.I.T. Professor Designs Virtual Retirement Community

  
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  Retired MIT professor Victor King McElheny designed a functioning “virtual retirement community” to postpone institutional care costs and ward off social isolation that most seniors will eventually face.
  1 week ago

• Baby boomers are killing themselves in record numbers

  
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  Last spring, Frank Turkaly tried to kill himself. A retiree in a Pittsburgh suburb living on disability checks, he was estranged from friends and family, mired in credit card debt and taking medication for depression, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure. It was not the life he had envisioned as a young man ...
  2 weeks ago

• Double Standard Alive & Well in Views on Promiscuity

  
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  Developmental psychologists have found that college-age women do not want to be friends with women judged as promiscuous. Cornell researchers say that in this context, being defined as promiscuous means that a woman reports 20 sexual partners by their early 20s. Investigators found that college women judged the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anomie

  
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  So this week has been interesting to say the least. Since last week (week of the 13th) forecasters predicted cloudy skies for the work week and a bright weekend. I was particularly following this because the weekend of May 18th, I had an outdoor event with my job and was hoping for nice weather. But instead it was ...
  3 weeks ago

• community building online and why it is so important

  
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  I don’t know where I would be if it not for the social media and the internet of today.  Okay that may sound a little strange. But look back at just how far technology has come from car phones to cell phones and smart phones. For me I feel like technology is an equalizer and it can really bridge the gap when going ...
  3 weeks ago

• [India] By the women, for the women

  
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  Avik Das – Times of India – Thursday, 23 May 2013 (originally published 21 May) For a group of women in Khagra, Berhampur, the next month will bring with it the promise of a changing fortune. They have their business plan – to manufacture low-cost biodegradable sanitary napkins – ready. Their target consumers ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Adolescent Only Child and Friendship

  
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  For some reason, when by choice or circumstance parents have an only child, that child and that childs upbringing, can be subject to a lot negative social stereotypes that a child with siblings is not. One such stereotype is growing up lonely and friendless. I disagree with this notion,and here is why. read more
  4 weeks ago

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