Meet AGNES — the MIT AgeLab’s Age Gain Now Empathy System. This suit was designed to provide insight into the physical effects of aging. The various components simulate the changes that occur naturally as we age. Put on this suit and you feel increased fatigue, reduced flexibility in joints and muscles, spinal compression, and difficulty with vision and balance. Altogether, AGNES is more than just a suit.
In addition to heart-wrenching individual testimonials describing MDMA’s influence on various users’ lives, the film features MDMA experts like Rick Doblin of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Neuroscientist Matthew Bagg…
What Does the Bible Say About Empathy? Should Christians Be Able to Empathize With Others?The Scriptures refer to the quality of empathy, which we see demonstrated in several biblical narratives. Empathy is the capacity to feel another person’s f…
Recent scholarship has discovered significant racial group variation in response to political threats such as immigration and terrorism. Surprisingly, groups who perceive themselves to be at greater risk from such threats nonetheless prefer more open i…
The 911 tapes from the McNair Learning Academy shooting Tuesday reveal a gripping real-life drama where a bookkeeper remained remarkably calm in the face of a troubled gunman who invaded the school. The 24-minute recording shows Antoinette Tuff continu…
