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Is Amazon's Alexa Making Our Relationships Weird?
Earlier this year, I started dating a guy who was in a very codependent relationship with Alexa.
Alexa helped this guy (I'll call him "Paul") decide where to eat dinner and reminded him to work out. Alexa handled his to-do lists, restocked his…
The Weirdly Easy Way to Make Yourself More Optimistic
One change to your nightly routine may affect your outlook on life.
Amazon scientist explains how Alexa’s whisper mode works
Alexa's forthcoming 'whisper mode' is more sophisticated than you might think. In a blog post, an Amazon developer explained how it works.
Why You Need to Turn Off Your Amazon Alexa While Working from Home
How to handle weird remarks about skin complexion within family
I’m honestly really tired of this. I’ve dealt with extended family members saying my mother doesn’t love me cause I’m black (her two other children are mixed with white) since I was young, I deal with my siblings making weird remarks about my skin complexion (going out of their way to describe...
Teenagers need to know where love stops and abusive relationships start
Young people should be taught the difference between real romance and coercive control, says author Holly Bourne
Why the Sound of Your Voice Makes You Cringe
It's high-pitched, awkward, and weird — but there's a simple way of making listening to yourself easier.
How to Get Amazon Alexa to Recognize Your Voice for Personal Responses
Everyone in your household can train Alexa to learn their voices to get personal responses to their requests.
8 Reasons Why Counseling Is So Important
We need to end the stigma that counseling is weird or not neccesary.
Five signs you’re dating a psychopath and how to leave them
A couple of weeks into the relationship, you feel lucky. Finally, it is your turn. You know your life will never be the same — because you have fallen for a psychopath.
How Could Burning Man Get Weirder? When It’s in Your Living Room.
The annual desert ritual goes virtual. Participants wear headsets, create avatars and dance and mingle from home; “I know I look ridiculous.”
7 Ways to Maintain Relationships When You’re Depressed
Why Do Psychologists Study Such Weird Things?
In my most recent blog post, I critiqued a study that was generating misleading headlines about the supposed superiority of people who are married. The (wrong) implication was that if you get married, you will have a stronger grip and a faster walking...
How to Locate Your Weird (and Better Your Writing)
1. Embrace the First Truth: You’re a freak. No use denying it. I mean this very literally. After all, by definition, a freak is an “abnormal phenomenon.” So, if you believe that all humans are unique individuals, as I do, then there is technically no absolutely normal person and we are all, therefore, freaks. This is simple logic. You don’t need to be a one-legged pansexual shrimp boat captain who escaped persecution in your homeland to start a non-profit website for people addicted…
How to Hear Your Conversations That Alexa Has Accidentally Recorded
Learn how Alexa records conversations that can then be reviewed by Amazon employees and how to opt out.
What is Psychoanalysis? Part 1: Is it Weird?
'What is Psychoanalysis?' is a 4-part educational film series for students and teachers. Primarily aimed at A-Level Psychology students studying the 'psychod...
How to change your Alexa device's language or accent in 5 simple steps
You can easily change Alexa's language and accent to the one that you are more comfortable interacting with.
How to play Audible books on your Alexa-enabled smart speaker
You can easily play any Audible book on the Alexa app and make your Amazon Echo smart speaker read the book aloud.
Why Does Feeling Optimistic Feel So Weird to You?
If feeling optimistic feels weird to you, the trick isn't to "think positive." The trick is to...pause.
20 People who did Weird Things without Caring about Anything
How to listen to private chats your Alexa has quietly recorded and saved
YOUR Amazon Echo speaker has a log of private conversations that it has quietly recorded without your knowledge. The gadgets’ Alexa AI assistant often logs things you say to it – and sometime…
