What is the Success Rate of Recovery in AA?
Opening Insights: Let's Get High, Who Cares? Addiction is rampant in our communities, businesses, schools and societies. It has become the norm - so much so that many of us just accept that this is [...]
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Your Beliefs Are No Longer Allowed
Opening Insights: Battle for Your Thoughts There is a war going on. There is a war going on that is much more insidious than the likes of physical and racial violence. There is a war [...]
The Neuroscience of Change
Opening Insights: Change Your Mind A You Are Not So Smart article/podcast by David McRaney, dated January 13, 2017, explores the realities of the neuroscience of changing our minds. The article touches on the problems [...]
What is the Backfire Effect?
Opening Insights: Backfire Effect A WhatIs.com article by Margaret Rouse, dated July 19, 2017, briefly defines the realities of the "backfire effect" and its relation to data analytics. Informational Insights: Resisting Reality The backfire effect [...]
Facts Don’t Win Arguments: The Backfire Effect
Opening Insights: Renouncing Erroneous Opinions I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but holding it a sound maxim, that it is better to be only sometimes right, than at all [...]
All Clear for the Decisive Trial of Ecstasy in PTSD Patients
Opening Insights A Science article written by Kai Kupferschmidt, dated August 26, 2017, highlights the growing desperation of scientist to find fast-acting, evidence-based solutions to mental health problems. The article examines the use of psychotropic drugs [...]
Panelists Highlight Role of Truth On Eve of Inauguration
Opening Insights A Cornell Daily Sun article by Gloria Lee, dated August 24, 2017, speaks of a panelist discussion on "Universities and the Search for Truth." "The faculty panel explored the University’s role in communicating [...]
Google Search Uses a Medical Quiz to Help Diagnose Depression
Opening Insights A Engadet UK article written by Joh Fingas, dated August 23, 2017, highlights that "Google is offering a verified test that could lead to treatment." This reality should cause the hair on the [...]
The Backfire Effect, Bad Objects, and Changing Our Minds Online
Opening Insights An Open Democracy article by David Beer, dated July 19, 2017, highlights the realities of the "backfire effect" on collective social media usage. He questions, "[When] on social media, when exposed to opposing [...]
Memories of Fear Could Be Permanently Erased
Scientists are working to permanently erase memories of fear and they are getting closer. New research in mice "reveals a new approach to wiping memories from the brain, demonstrating that specific memories can be weakened [...]
Is Coffee King?
Opening Insights Drinking coffee has become more than a norm, if has become a trend. According to E-Imports.com 2016 Coffee statistics show: The average person in the United States drinks 3.1 cups of coffee per [...]
Boomers We HAVE A PROBLEM: Seniors Becoming Fastest Growing Marijuana Users
Opening Insights Stan Bush is a general assignment reporter at CBS4. In a news report dated August 9, 2017, Stan points out the growing acceptance of marijuana use amongst the boomer generation. Some may think [...]
Anger Rooms are All the Rage. Timidly, We Gave One a Whack
Opening Insights A New York Times article written by Penelope Green, dated August 9, 2017, highlights the growing problem of anger within our society and the creative, yet concerning way some people are attempting to [...]
Marijuana Use Holds Three-fold Blood Pressure Death Risk: Study
Opening Insights LONDON (Reuters) - People who smoke marijuana have a three times greater risk of dying from hypertension, or high blood pressure, than those who have never used the drug, scientists said on Wednesday. [...]
Alcoholism epidemic: More than 1 in 8 Americans are now alcoholics
Opening Insights Alcoholism has risen 49% in the US in just 11 years, national surveys find. Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following Co-Lab Blog. This blog features parts of an insightful article [...]
Facebook Traps People in a Cycle of Failure that Makes Them Keep USING IT, Research Suggests
Opening Insights Trying to leave just makes you want to come back even more, study says Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites you to explore the following Co-Lab Blog. This blog features parts of an insightful article [...]
Opportunity is at Your Feet
Opening Insights A Continuing Journey of Collaboration, Opportunity and Career Development in the Co-Lab... As a member of a Co-Lab I was given the task of finding an environment to implement the skills I was [...]
Planned Parenthood Issues Shocking New Information on How to Talk to Pre-schoolers About Sex
Opening Insights An article by Sarah Taylor of The Blaze, dated July 24, 2017, quotes the frightening and shocking direction and principles of Planned Parenthood. The statements below point to the growing intolerance of traditional [...]
White, Rural Americans Going to Prison at Larger Rates in Opioid Epidemic
Opening Insights The opioid epidemic continues to infect and affect America in surprising ways, with an increase in the number of "white, rural Americans going to prison." Read more below... Pocket Wisdom Insights (PWI) invites [...]
PWI Co-Lab Team: Self-Regulation is Our Direction
Opening Insights The PWI Co-Lab offers many tools and resources lacking in our modern-day education and experience. Be-ing, working and living within a Co-Lab environment provides the opportunity to transcend our vision and perceptions of [...]