Hope Springs Eternal (in College)

Wow, has it really been three weeks since the last post? Time does fly, especially when it’s summer time in Colorado. But the passing of summer in a college town inevitably leads to the yearly tradition of Students Returning to School, and I have been witnessing this event over the past week or so as […]

When Your Brain Is Too Smart for Its Own Good

These brains of ours. They do so much – think, feel, perform day-to-day operations, keep us alive, etc. But it turns out that sometimes they’re a little too good at streamlining performance. A while back, the New York Times published an article detailing our brain’s response to stressful situations. There were two main points of the article, […]