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Read more about the article The Second Spring: Why Menopause Is Not a Disease, But the Awakening of the Wise Woman

The Second Spring: Why Menopause Is Not a Disease, But the Awakening of the Wise Woman

Photo by Jude Beck on Unsplash (Open Source Stock) For more than a century, conventional Western medicine has viewed menopause through a deficit lens. Clinical textbooks and medical jargon frequently…

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Read more about the article The Inverted Pyramid: How Blackfoot Wisdom Inspired (and Transcends) Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

The Inverted Pyramid: How Blackfoot Wisdom Inspired (and Transcends) Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Photo by Bailey Zindel on Unsplash (Open Source Stock) In the summer of 1938, psychologist Abraham Maslow spent six weeks living among the Siksika (Blackfoot) Nation in Alberta, Canada. Observing…

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Read more about the article The Little Man Inside Your Brain: Understanding the Cortical Homunculus (and Why the Jaw Is So Huge)

The Little Man Inside Your Brain: Understanding the Cortical Homunculus (and Why the Jaw Is So Huge)

Credit: 3D Sensory Homunculus model based on the neural mapping of Dr. Wilder Penfield & Theodore Rasmussen (Montreal Neurological Institute). Exhibit on display at the Natural History Museum, London. If…

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