Author name: Steve Hayes

In the 13th century, medics commonly treated mental illness by drilling a hole into a person’s head, thus releasing demons and evil spirits, in the hopes of “curing” the person. Up until the 19th century, medics also believed that if bodily fluids got out of balance, physical and mental illness would be the result. People

Racism runs deep in the fabric of our cognitive networks, driven by fear, objectification, failures of perspective taking, and self-avoidance. Almost all of us will recoil at the video of George Floyd dying before our eyes. But racism is vastly deeper and darker than that. Racism is hard to dig out or to target, and