One of the number-one songs in 1987 was, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” by Whitney Houston, a song with currently almost a billion plays on Spotify. It’s an upbeat dance song about a woman who is looking to dance to “chase my blues away.” You can’t help but move around, listening to the song, but can you really chase the blues away by dancing? According to the Trauma Research Foundation, movement therapy has been around since the 1940s and is considered part of the development of identity and self. It’s expressive and cathartic. It can be expressed by improvisation or choreographed. New Englan ..read more

In an episode of the NBC genealogy, documentary TV show Who Do You Think You Are?, actress Christina Applegate goes on a genealogy search to find out for her father, who his mother was and more about his upbringing. The identity of who was Christina’s grandmother was a carefully hidden secret that affected the entire family. Christina’s father needed to know for his own well-being why she disappeared when he was still a child. This was a journey of closure and with every journey, the destination may not be what you expect. Through an exhausting search on the other side of the country, the ans ..read more

Like it or not, artificial intelligence is here to stay, and even if we don’t like it, AI is finding its own voice through its algorithms to justify its own existence. Although it is not conscience, it is aware on levels developers do not fully understand. The higher-end consumer AI that is available now like ChatGPT and Bard, are language models that are designed to do specific tasks. They are ANI models, which means, artificial narrow intelligence. They are also learning models with a variety of ways by which they learn such as supervised learning (specific training), unsupervised learning ..read more

Real space exploration began after WW2, building upon the German V-2 rocket missile, which was a weapon used by the German Wehrmacht to bomb European targets. In the late 1940s the United States and the Soviet Union began their “space race” by sending experimental rockets into space, loaded with scientific instruments to learn about space travel and what was possible. In 1952 the Soviets launched the Luna 02 rocket to the moon, which was the first successful landing of a spacecraft on the moon. The Luna 02 sent back to Earth rudimentary information of the moon’s radiation fields, solar wind f ..read more

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability. This was a from a job listing on August 1, 2021 for a health services organization. It is one of the largest health-care providers in its state. At first glance, it looks like absolutely everyone is covered as far as consideration. But one group is absent: age. Ageism is rapidly growing into an acceptable prejudice, although it has been a problem for a long time. Ageism ha ..read more

A few years back I received a national award for work that I had done. I was kind of psyched about it. I had to travel to the ceremony  in New York City for the banquet. I sat there pretty much unaware of this specific award. The banquet started and as the names were announced, I was shocked. These were all people and companies that were on the “A” list. Household names. And I was receiving the highest award I could possibly receive for what I do. But there was a problem. What I was receiving an award for wasn’t my best work. Far from it. Why wasn’t I receiving the award for my more grou ..read more

Before you read the next sentence, take a second to clear your mind and not assume you know what this article is about. The past year has been especially hard on everyone, with most of us experiencing a loss of some type. It has made us more emotionally driven than before. There has been more passion but there also has been less listening. There have been many news stories about people who have gotten in trouble legally and culturally for saying or doing things that maybe they should have kept to themselves until a better time to express what they are feeling. Even businesses have been caught ..read more

This guest post was written by Patrick Bailey who writes various articles in the fields of mental health, addiction, and living in recovery. Please check out his website at https://www.patrickbaileys.com/category/wellness/ Substance abuse in the United States has never been more prevalent than today. According to the National Institutes of Health, there are 14.4 million adult Americans currently suffering from Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). The Mayo Clinic, one of the nation’s leading medical research institutions, says that AUD affects those suffering from it daily. People with AUD may ignore b ..read more

There is nothing more tragic about the human experience than the extreme hopelessness some feel and how it can move them to take an early exit. Troubling personal and global events happen in our lives that make us feel walled in, scared, ashamed, and traumatized. Every single one of us experience that. When these things happen, we navigate through and out of them without jumping ship. “Navigate” meaning getting outside help to chart the path away from the storm, but we also have to steer the ship ourselves. I once saw a film where a dead little girl befriends a living little boy, showing him h ..read more

A friend of mine struggled with alcohol for many years. For a short time, she saved every empty bottle of alcohol and months later put them in a room and photographed them as a group. Each bottle she labeled with the date she drank it. The image was overpowering and profoundly sad. We don’t usually have the opportunity to see the alcoholic’s amount of consumption of alcohol as a whole. It certainly put a different perspective on not only the amounts but also the costs and effort that go into an addiction. In this post I want to provide some perspectives on alcoholism recovery. I don’t think ..read more