By: Joseph Geliebter, Ph.D. When my sons were young, they couldn’t get enough of the now-classic video called “Road Construction.” The award-winning 1991 video by Fred Levine features 30 minutes of non-stop road-building action – from site surveys to demolition to the first car traveling down a finished highway. This Read more
By Joseph Geliebter, Ph.D. Leo, the building inspector for my village, knows a thing or two about Unplugging and Reconnecting. An Italian immigrant, he grew up in the Italian wine country, where he experienced a simpler way of life. I met Leo during a road repaving project on my block. Read more
By: Joseph Geliebter, Ph.D. I think the women who led a protest movement on my street during the 1930s were quite prescient. It was about 80 years ago that my block – currently in the process of being repaved – was initially paved and converted from a dirt road. The Read more
By: Joseph Geliebter, Ph.D. When my village announced plans to repave my block last summer, many of my neighbors worried about the noise, the dust, and the inconvenience of not being able to park their cars on the street for several days. But then a funny thing happened. We Read more
Our addiction to Facebook, Twitter and email – and work – may be harder to resist than a dependence on alcohol or cigarettes, according to a research study published in February in the journal Psychological Science. In an attempt to measure the willpower to resist desire, the study by researchers Read more