Mark Linkous Of Sparklehorse Has Died
Mar 7th, 2010 · Mark Linkous, the voice and imaginative mind behind the psych-folk rock group Sparklehorse, has committed suicide, Rolling Stone magazine reports.
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Is The U.S. Making The World 'Crazy Like Us'?
Jan 12th, 2010 · Author Ethan Watters thinks that America is "homogenizing the way the world goes mad." In Crazy Like Us, he describes how American definitions and treatments of mental illness have spread to other cultures around the world, in a "globalization of the American psyche."
Working Weekends At A Psych ER
Dec 18th, 2009 · Dr. Julie Holland ran the weekend shift at Bellevue's psychiatric emergency room for nine years. In her new memoir Weekends at Bellevue, Holland describes the patients she encountered — from the manic to the criminally insane — and the reasons she eventually left the job.
From Kingsolver, The Fiction Of A Split Psyche
Nov 8th, 2009 · Writer Barbara Kingsolver is fascinated by the tension inherent in living on the border between two cultures. Her latest novel, The Lacuna, tells the story of a young man born of a Mexican mother and an American father.
Happy Birthday, Medicare. Now, Psych Up For Battle!
Jul 30th, 2009 · It's Medicare's 44th birthday and Speaker Nancy Pelosi is celebrating by sending each House Democrat home with a special card — a list of talking points to help sell health care to constituents.
July 7: Sonic Youth Live In Concert
Jul 2nd, 2009 · Sonic Youth's latest album, The Eternal, is among the band's finest, with a fuzzy, tightly orchestrated mix of psych-punk rock and noisy jams. The band will showcase the album in a full concert, webcast live on NPR Music, July 7. The performance from Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club will begin streaming online at approximately 10 p.m. ET.
National Service Act Continues U.S. Tradition
Apr 21st, 2009 · President Obama signed a massive $5.7 billion national service bill into law Tuesday. The measure, which triples the size of the Clinton-era AmeriCorps program, harkens back not only to the days of FDR's New Deal but also to an idea imbued in the American psyche since the country's earliest days.
Education Tuning Shows What Students Learned
Apr 14th, 2009 · Sure, many students take Psych 101, but do they all actually know the same things? A new approach at some universities will require that degrees reflect a defined set of skills, rather than a list of the courses a student took.
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