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Editor's note: This is the first of two columns on the year's best long-form essays.It is time once again for the Sidney Awards, when I pick out some of the best long-form essays that you might download for your holiday reading pleasure. This year there were so many fine pieces it's impossible to read them all without totally ignoring your family.The first two winners are just great narratives. In "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World With Logic" in Nautilus, Amanda Gefter described the partnership between Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch. These two geniuses fit together perfectly. They performed >>>

The University Registrar has announced the names of more than 1,250 candidates for degrees from the University of Kansas this fall.Area graduates include: Barton County: Great Bend: Rebecca Davidson, Bachelor of Science in Biology; Caleb Wolf, Bachelor of General Studies in Public Administration Psychology minor.Ellis County: Ellis: Alesha Brenner, Bachelor of Arts in Biology; Mikayla Gottschalk, Bachelor of Science in Accounting; Alexander Lantis, Bachelor of Science in Aerospace >>>

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria.Uncredited/AP In August 2014, ISIS released a video showing American journalist James Foley kneeling in a barren desert. Foley wears a bright orange jumpsuit. An ISIS fighter stands behind him, a black scarf masking his face. The fighter wields a long dagger. When Foley speaks, his voice is matter of fact, but resigned. He says he knows he will never see his family again. The ISIS fighter speaks in a British >>>

She was a top teenage swimmer managing both her skill and success in the water and her lessons in the classroom very well. Suddenly, however, there was a drastic change in her behaviour. She became irritable and quarrels were aplenty not only with her siblings but also her mother. Her swimming performance began to slide as also her school grades. Sports challenges a person both mentally and physically. File pic Fortunately, >>>

AHMEDABAD: Devices such as mobile phones and tablets were primarily a means of communication — connecting individuals — but they has alienated users and it isn't uncommon to see a couple on a date at a restaurant, engrossed in conversations, but on their own screens. This phenomenon has created new challenges for psychologists the world over. City-based Antarnad Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, organized a three-day seminar called 'The Lover, The Exorcist and The Critic' by US-based psychoanalyst Alan Karbelnig, which began on Friday. Over 60 psychologists and psychoanalysts from >>>

Graduates eqipped with ACAP's counselling diploma can register with the Australian Counselling Association. Photo: Fiona-Lee Quimby Counselling diplomaLifeline counsellor Nicholas Laughlin works three nights a week from 10pm to 2am listening to harrowing tales of the city. He says completing a diploma of counselling at the Australian College of Applied Psychology (ACAP) gave him the confidence to tackle the unpredictability of crisis counselling."The course is very skills-focused. >>>

Panic Saturday is here, the day dedicated to last-minute Christmas gift-shopping and flooding the post office to send forgotten cards. Before joining a sweating throng of up to 12.6 million Britons on the high street (and it will be sweaty, with temperatures meant to hit 16C today in London), it may help to understand what gift-giving is all about. A study by behavioural scientist Francesca Gino and professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford suggested giving people gifts they actually want and asked for, rather than taking a shot in the dark. They found that not only would a >>>

Delhi, India, December 19, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Virtue Baby, the Non-Governmental Organization and a unit of LESDEP Foundation, has announced that they will be hosting a session for expecting parents on how to ‘Create Your Child’s Personality’. The event aims to provide inspiration, information, and assistance to would-be parents on how to nurture and impart virtues to their baby within the womb thus enabling them to dive deep into the concept of Birth Psychology and Pre-natal Bonding.This session will provide inspirational insights on introducing virtues that will illustrate the acknowledgement >>>

As an undergraduate student, Thomas Schofield was frustrated with the negativity he saw in his psychology classes.“Everyone seemed to be talking about what everybody’s doing wrong, and dysfunction and dismay and doom and gloom, and how families and society are screwing things up,” said Schofield, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State University. “I just wanted to see what people are getting done right … (Families) have been adapted for thousands of years and every culture has families, so why don’t we ask what they’re getting right? Because there >>>