The Alchemy of "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood"

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that was founded by Zeno of Citium, in Athens, in the early 3rd century BC.
It is an ancient tool for remaining calm in adversity, a philosophical framework, useful in providing an ethical scaffold for both everyday life and in times of difficulty...

The self-awareness onion reveals why superficial awareness rarely creates change. True self-knowledge requires:

• Peeling through multiple layers of increasing discomfort
• Moving past surface emotions to underlying values and beli...

Research shows that people are more willing to draw 'political life lessons' from a narrative about an imaginary political world than from fact-based reporting about the real world.

These narratives may have a positive effect on nourishing society's 'watchdog' role in a variety of contexts...