Jerome Groopman, MD, is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, chief of experimental medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a leading researcher in the fields of cancer and AIDS. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Dr. Groopman is a prolific author whose books include The Measure of Our Days (Viking), Second Opinions (Viking), An Anatomy of Hope (Random House), and most recently, How Doctors Think (Houghton Mifflin).
Angela Duckworth has done more than anyone else to popularize the term grit. An assistant professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, Duckworth once taught low-income children. She wondered:Is IQ the key factor in predicting success?
continue readingPeople who grow their own dinner often talk about self-sufficiency. But there is much more to the homesteading movement than that.
continue readingWhile knowledge and understanding are necessary for wisdom, they are not sufficient.
continue readingWhile knowledge and understanding are necessary for wisdom, they are not sufficient.
continue readingWhat is justice? Or, to phrase the question differently, what IS justice?
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