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Practical Lessons in Psychological First Aid
Most of us have directly observed another human in psychological distress, whether it was a friend, a family member, a co-worker, or perhaps a complete stranger. Similarly, those of us who have observed someone in distress have usually been motivated to offer...
On Dementia Patients and Air Travel
Raising dementia awareness can assist caregivers and airlines to meet the challenges of traveling with dementia. In light of the recent video showing a passenger on an airplane presenting dementia symptoms, and the disastrous outcome when asked to leave, I...
Why did a fisheries scientist write a book about climate change?
I've gotten this question many times since people first heard about The Carbon Code: How You Can Become a Climate Change Hero. The answer is simple: nothing makes sense in conservation, except in light of climate change (apologies to Dobzhansky). The consensus...
Wherever I am, a library is my home
ONE of my car accessories is a dead giveaway. My license plate cover reads “LIBRARIES ARE ESSENTIAL––I LOVE MY LIBRARY.” As children, after school, we scampered past the duck pond up the hill to the Wellesley Free Library in eastern Massachusetts, paused to...
Between medicine, business and politics: Silicosis, a promising 21st century scourge from the remote past
In October 2006, two Chinese victims of silicosis paid a visit to the village of Shakarpur, 80 kilometers from Baroda, an Indian city in the state of Gujarat where regional NGOs had organized a meeting devoted to this disease. The event was a memorable one...
OAH: Universities and Their Cities
As scholars of American history meeting in New Orleans, we certainly do not need to be reminded of this city’s dynamic history. Nor do we need to be reminded of the complex history of America’s urbanization and the growth of its cities. Yet historians of...
Monumental Failure
On the Centennial of United States Entry Into World War I, the Proposal for a Pending National Memorial in Washington, D. C. Falls Short The Korean conflict of the 1950s is often referred to as the nation’s “forgotten war,” yet how many Americans recall the...
Five Common Myths Busted About Dementia
Why should everyone in the world raise their dementia-awareness? Across our country and around the world there is a lack of awareness, creating harmful myths surrounding dementia, thereby resulting in stigmatization, barriers to diagnosis and care, and...
On Poetry in Full Color
A new Johns Hopkins book, That Swing: Poems 2008-2016, takes its title from Duke Ellington's song "It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing." That statement seems to fit a collection of verse almost entirely written in meter---regular rhythms----and...
Behind the Book: Critical Educational Psychology
Have you ever wondered why Piaget is a household name in any discourse related to child development? Although Piaget’s theory is well ensconced in schooling discourse, Vygotsky’s view of human development is gaining a great deal of traction. Why? Grit is...