Earlier this week, the University of California, Berkeley, announced that a study comprising around 300 young adults from different ethnic and social backgrounds indicates that people from the “upper-middle and upper classes were less able to det…

For me, the hallmark of a great networking event is great company, the kind of learning that leaves you with as many new questions as answers, plus a superb social element to the event. Carole Stone does it all with swan like grace. Here are some of th…

Empathy—the ability to share the feelings of others—is fundamental to our emotional and social lives. Previous human imaging studies focusing on empathy for others’ pain have consistently shown activations in regions also involved in the di…

“Whatever you do not want done to you, do not do to others.” — Confucius (6th cen. BC)”Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” — Jesus (1st cen.)   A great deal of sectarian hay has been made comparing and contrasting the…