Click Here to Read or Listen to: YIVO studied a living Yiddish culture. What happened when that world was nearly destroyed? Kalman Weiser’s new history follows the institute from Vilna to New York, where it had to preserve a vanished world and cultivate a future By Andrew Silow-Carroll on the JTA website on October 11, 2026. 
Click Here to Read: Why Does It Feel Like We Are Living in the Worst of Times? The psychology behind our belief that the world is getting worse by Gurnek Bains Ph.D. on his A Global Lens blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 8, 2026.
Dark Clouds of Factory Smoke Obscure Clark Avenue Bridge Image: Frank John Aleksandrowicz (1921–2014) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: How the Brain Shows Us Depression Is Not One Thing: People with the same diagnosis can show opposite patterns of brain connectivity by Laura Bilbao Broch MSc on her Cell on the Self blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 8, 2026.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging – Human brain side view Image: Oliver Stollmann. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Our Tribal Minds Can Badly Distort Our Perception of Reality: How ancient, evolved adaptations fuel modern political tension by Eric Haseltine Ph.D. on his Long Fuse, Big Bang blog on the Psychology Today blogs on October 2, 2026.
Neanderthal Flintworkers, Le Moustier Cavern, Dordogne, France (cropped) mage: American Museum of Natural History. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
