In the struggle for existence how do we herald the better angels of our nature?Author’s Note: On Tuesday I will be traveling to Manchester, England for the International Conference for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine where I&rsquo…

Salon talks to Katie Rose Guest Pryal about the skeptical scholarship on the hero of “To Kill a Mockingbird”But some readers of the book never took Atticus as a hero for racial justice. One of them was Katie Rose Guest Pryal, who wrote a 2010 essa…

Participating in an eight-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress. In a study that will appear in the Jan. 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuro…

Parents can create countless teachable moments to help their kids understand how it might feel to be in someone else’s shoes and to convey empathy through words & actions.   Put yourself in someone else’s shoes. As discussed in my…