
Navajo students before and after entering the Carlisle Indian School in 1882.
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Navajo students before and after entering the Carlisle Indian School in 1882.

Allan Barsky, Ph.D., a Florida Atlantic University professor of social work, has received the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).



Let’s return to your recent stream of consciousness: were you purely absorbed in abstract thoughts or were you also aware of your body? Could you feel your heart beating? The rhythm of your breath against your chest, mouth or nose? Maybe a flutter in your stomach? If so, what thoughts or feelings, if any, occurred at the same time as, or just before or after, the bodily sensations? My colleagues and I refer to these body-related thoughts in the stream of consciousness as ‘body-wandering’, a mental process that we think could play an important – yet overlooked – role in many people’s emotional wellbeing.

From Amazon: Francesca Gino is an award-winning researcher and teacher, and a tenured professor at Harvard Business School. Her consulting and speaking clients include Bacardi, Akamai, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Novartis, P&G, and the U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy. She has been honored as one of the world’s Top 40 Business Professors under 40 and one of the world’s 50 most influential management thinkers. Her work has been featured on CNN and NPR, as well as in the Economist, Financial Times, New York Times, Newsweek, Scientific American, and Psychology Today.
Reality: This month Francesca Gino, the star Harvard researcher whose research he was relying on, became the first academic in 80 years to lose tenure from the university amid accusations held to be well-founded that her results were manipulated.

More than 5,000 people have signed a petition calling for stronger measures to stop a “growing tide” of anti-social behaviour including drink and drug use, looting and fighting. The petition says incidents are “eroding [Broadstairs beach above] charm, safety and economic health” and is calling for increased police patrols, permanent dispersal orders and stronger sanctions on young people involved in anti-social behaviour.