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bubblesPhoto byImage by José Villegas from Pixabay. My divorce attorney questioned me and caught me off-guard, unprepared. My heart stopped. His words sounded robotic, yet dramatic if that makes sense. Am I breathing? This dry and matter-of-fact query cut deep and shocked me. He stared and waited for my reply.

This Wednesday the ninth season of Fox's The Masked Singer wrapped up, leaving audiences excited after it was revealed that Medusa was the winner of this season. Singer Bishop Briggs is the one on the Medusa costume with great perseverance, and her high-octane performances were tied to the reward of being the grand finale winner. American Idol star David Archuleta was macaw and he is the runner-up.

" Only Art is eternal wisdom; what is not art perishes. Art is the unconscious love of all things. 'learning' will cease and reality will become known when it comes to pass that every human being is an artist." Austin Osman Spare.

One critique I’ve gotten in the past about my character is that I’m the type of person who can’t make decisions by himself. I generally need to be liked, accepted, praised, and need the approval of a bunch of people before I can make a decision by myself. I seek validation from others because I struggle with the self-sufficiency and confidence to stand by my decisions, mistakes, and beliefs myself. I worry a lot about what other people think.

Mexico is a country rich in cultural diversity and history. However, there is a hidden chapter of Mexico's history that has largely been ignored: the Afro-Mexican community. The Afro-Mexican community is an essential part of Mexico's cultural fabric, but their contributions to Mexican society have been overlooked for centuries.

As mentioned in a previous post, the old belief that fast trains would choke passengers by pushing oxygen away from their mouths... has been debunked. Opening Tut's Tomb...

According to Soldier DeLeo Barner, he joined the Army in 1981 to escape the widespread violence that plagued his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri during his upbringing. Barner recounted that his predominantly black community was afflicted with gang fights and police shootings during that era.

Tennessee has a long history of discrimination against transgender people, with local politicians passing transphobic legislature at an alarming rate. The problem with this is that there are over 31,000 transgender people living in Tennessee--with that number growing by the day--and all of them are affected by the transphobic legislature that runs rampant in the state.

A Classic Thought Experiment that Challenges the Concept of Identity. Derek Antony Parfit was a renowned British philosopher who was an expert in the fields of personal identity, rationality, and ethics. He is widely recognized as one of the most significant and impactful moral philosophers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Based on the musings of some previous philosophers, he developed a hypothetical scenario (a “thought experiment”) designed to push the boundaries of our conceptualization of the self.

A bathroom door expressing acceptance of all gendersPhoto byJen Bonn. When the topic of using the correct pronoun first became popular, I was confused. My first question was if I’m addressing a person why would I use any other pronoun than you? If we are talking about respecting someone, in this case concerning a choice of gender, isn’t it simpler to agree to respect people in general by speaking to them directly and not in the third person?

*This is a work of nonfiction based on actual events I experienced firsthand; used with permission. The firing of employees was always a very scary moment for me. As soon as someone was fired, security would be authorized to follow the fired individual to his or her locker or office, ensure they leave the company belongings behind and then see them off as they exit.

3 additional ways for unemployed workers to verify their identity on unemployment applications.Photo byMorristown Minute. Unemployment Applications may have just gotten a little easier.

Are you looking to make a life change? Perhaps you've had the same goal for years of losing weight, or landing your dream job. Maybe you have wanted to go vegan or deadlift 2x your bodyweight. When looking to achieve these goals sometimes it feels so far off in the distance. Like, "that's some thing other people do... not me". It feels so far off because you've never done it. And the fact that you've never done it unfortunately is what keeps you from never doing it.

Intersectional Rural Identity | Oct 20thDelaware Humanities. Delaware Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, is bringing grassroots Affrilachian (Black Appalachian) activist and community organizer Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson to lead a discussion on intersectionality and identity at its Annual Lecture on October 20th.

The Last Unicorn as a metaphor for Menopause. The Last Unicorn is one of my favorite movies of all time. I experienced this animated “kids film” shortly after its theater release in 1982.

These research-based reflections can help individuals enhance their self-understanding.Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels. There is a well-known set of 36 questions that helps two strangers get to know each other, and potentially fall in love. These questions, popularized in the NY Times article “The 36 Questions That Lead to Love,” were created by my Ph.D. advisor, Arthur Aron. The questions’ goal was to fast-track friendship, build closeness, and perhaps spark romantic interest. (You can read the original research article here; it includes all 36 closeness-building questions at the end.)

The NJ Department of Labor is launching an enhanced identity verification tool for Unemployment Insurance to reduce fraudulent claims. Millions of legitimate unemployment claimants across the country face major delays in receiving their benefits or have missed out on receiving any benefits at all due to identity fraud and theft.

Is your privacy protected? With all of us working more with technology and using multiple devices at work, home, and on the fly, it is more important than ever for us to maintain secure.

An identity crisis!(Michael Burrell/iStock) It’s not as simple as it was in decades prior. Today, so many kids are born to parents who choose not to marry. So when it comes to the surname children take when their parents aren’t married, there is no rule followed.