You’ve seen the comments section under an article or a video on the Web. And you know that while they’re meant to create meaningful dialogue, they’re more often filled with hate and verbal attacks. Some cyber bullying has been so vicious that suicide has been the result. WBEZ blogger Leah Pickett and Illinois Safe Schools Alliance’s Shannon Sullivan talks about this growing problem. And we ask you-how can we make the internet a better place?
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There are many ways to go home. Many roads to drive. But at the end of every journey, the road home is always the same.
For Father’s Day, I wanted to tell something about how dads, in this case, my father-in-law, can push you to do something that may not make sense at the time, but when you think back to it later in life, you find you’re very thankful they did.
Ernest Hemingway’s acceptance speech for the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize. – “Veteran out of the wars before he was twenty: Famous at twenty-five: thirty a master— Whittled a style for his time from a walnut stick In a carpenter’s loft in a street of that April city.”
A Fear of Fire by Tim Akimoff
A podcast about panic attacks, flying small planes in Alaska and talking about things that we really don’t like to talk about.
Someone once said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Obviously he never saw a cane spider or swam with sharks. Today’s podcast tackles the subject of fear and the ways in which we confront those fears when we’re coming of age.
I once witnessed a team of American psychiatrists trying to undo the effects of war in a refugee camp on the outskirts of a war zone. For ethnic Albanian children fleeing Kosovo, art served as therapy, as people tried to break the endless cycle of oppression and revenge.
I once witnessed a team of American psychiatrists trying to undo the effects of war in a refugee camp on the outskirts of a war zone. For ethnic Albanian children fleeing Kosovo, art served as therapy, as people tried to break the endless cycle of oppression and revenge.