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It’s Okay: To Not Want To Try New Things

...excelling in it? Perhaps, this is also what gives people discipline. Remember the aphorism “jack of all trades, master of none”? The generalization may be wanting, but there is still...

By Saumya Kalia

Lusting For Bloodlusters

Why Do We Desire Famous Bad People?

...of dedication, and an archetype of self-sacrifice, a mixture of volatility, purity, severe discipline,” Morgan adds. It’s the ultimate intermingling of sex and violence to make an unequal, hierarchical status...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

"I Can't Help It!"

What It’s Like To Live With: Narcolepsy

...issues. That’s when I was able to maintain some discipline. They, basically, went from, “you don’t have any problems” to “oh, we’re so sorry, do whatever you want” to “okay,...

By Devrupa Rakshit

All You Need to Know About Binge Eating Disorder

...than anyone else. Further, a lack of self-discipline was attributed to patients who were obese or had BED. “Stigmatizing attitudes vary across mental health disorders, and future research should aim...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Shooing My Woes Away

Amid India’s Mental Health Crisis, Godmen Conflate Depression With Lack of Spirituality

...fellow Indians about the unproven efficacy of the discipline, backing it up with unfounded statistics. The internet is replete with thousands of unwarranted bits of advice to “cure” depression —...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Robots, Virtual Intimacy and Sex in Space. Is This the Future of Sex?

...embrace a new discipline, space sexology: the scientific study of extraterrestrial intimacy and sexuality.” Here too, sextech is expected to play a role. Apart from VR and augmented reality, teledildonics...

By Ananya Singh

The Pressures of Performative Passion

In Defense of Quiet Passion

...something as collaborative as a team sport. The self-education in the topic of interest requires a kind of discipline that can’t be taught. It’s only fuelled by passion.” However, moments...

By Ananya Singh

Governor Talkin

Large Number of Humanities Students ‘Undesirable,’ Says TN Governor

...a professional workforce who aren’t trained to critically question, engage with, or learn ideas. It speaks to a deep-seated need for obedience and discipline as the ultimate goal of education....

By Amlan Sarkar

How Autism Interventions Are Starting to Move Away From ‘Fixing’ Autistic People

...beginning to move away from its erstwhile goal of “fixing” autistic people. For decades, applied behavioral analysis (ABA) — a scientific discipline that espouses a narrow definition of normal and...

By Devrupa Rakshit

Paternal Heavylifting

The Buzz Cut: Man Who Witnessed Laborious Birth Lauded for Immediately Hitting the Gym

...(someone else) giving birth is arduous, and requires discipline for men, too. The actor thereby set an example for pulling his weight — literally — and reinforcing the importance of...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

English Exclusions

Cognitive Science Has an English Bias, Notes New Research

...Time, Work Discipline and Industrial Capitalism, sociologist E.P Thompson describes the development of clock-time as synonymous with the development of the modern day capitalist work ethic. While this structure of...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Tech Is Shaping a New Type of Sexuality

...of bondange/discipline-dominance/submission-sadomasochism (BDSM). Then, as time goes on, we have gradually learned to be more accepting of all these diverse sexual identities. We should bring that same openness to digisexuals....

By Neil McArthur & Markie Twist, The Conversation

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How Community Education Collectives Are Challenging Existing and Increasing Educational Inequality

...2020, Verma came across Bahujan Economists (BE) on Twitter, a platform for students and professionals from marginalized and underrepresented backgrounds in the discipline. Verma signed up and soon discovered that...

By Amlan Sarkar

An Exercise in Caring

NCERT Issues Guidelines to Schools to Help Address Students’ Mental Health Problems

...One limitation of the recommendation within these guidelines is an unequal power dynamic. Hierarchical structures and a culture of discipline and authority within schools could render such panels moot, given...

By Saumya Kalia

Even Fruit Flies Eat More, Sleep Less When They Are Lonely: Study

...and significantly contributed to neuroscience as a discipline. In the present study, scientists found that quarantining them in a test tube activated the neuron associated with more eating. This was...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Wilde Implications

How ‘Anti‑fandoms’ Become a Tool To Scrutinize, Harass Women

...that anti-fandoms carry deep negativity in their foundation. Related on The Swaddle: Why We Love to Hate‑Watch Things Anti-fandoms then become a tool to discipline women — especially those who...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

Love In the Time of Capitalism

How Modern Society Complicates the Grief of Heartbreak

...25. As psychoanalyst Erich Fromm notes, “the principle underlying capitalistic society and the principle of love are incompatible.” In other words, the organization and discipline of our society according to...

By Rohitha Naraharisetty

To Err Is Human

Why We Repeat Mistakes After We’ve Made Them

...so that we can learn and grow. We lose things so that we can value them more sincerely. Every social reasoning builds on a noble idea of discipline, which in...

By Saumya Kalia

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