Balancing the Mind: Tieing Artfulness to Meditation

With constant stressors in our lives, like work or school, it is important to both to relax and to stretch out the other side of the brain. For me, and a number of other students either this week or soon, it’s time for studying and exams. To keep my cool in this stressful time, I try to include any relaxing activities as I do study … Continue reading Balancing the Mind: Tieing Artfulness to Meditation

Conflicts with Technology in Interpersonal Relationships

Conflicts within relationships are healthy because of how they aid in getting to know both ourselves and the other person and technology has become just one of the many points of conflict in interpersonal relationships that people have to work through. Without conflicts, there are no thresholds to break. There would be no movies to watch or stories to be heard if conflicts never arose, … Continue reading Conflicts with Technology in Interpersonal Relationships

NPR’s Look into Facebook’s Oversight

NPR’s episode titled ‘How Facebook Takes On Fake News and Hate Speech’ from last October goes over Facebook’s policies and how the platform deals with problems, such as relying on users reporting issues themselves. Within the podcast, guest, Monika Bickert, the head of product policy and counterterrorism on Facebook, talks about the amount of difficultly is it to oversee all of the posts on Facebook. … Continue reading NPR’s Look into Facebook’s Oversight