Blog Post
Feeling Anxious?
by Lucy S
The following memoirs are all unflinchingly honest and personal accounts of those grappling with anxiety and panic disorders.
In My Age of Anxiety : Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind, Scott Stossel reports with candor on his constant and continued battles with severe anxiety in many forms. Accessible, readable, funny, forthright and extremely well researched, Stossel’s book offers alternating personal accounts with examinations of anxiety as seen in past and present science and philosophy. Daniel Smith also looks at how writers, scientists and other thinkers have considered anxiety while delving deeply into his own in Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety. Like Stossel, Smith allows readers a very close look at his daily fears, and like Stossel bravely tackles the subject with much humor.
Andrea Petersen was a student at the University of Michigan when she suffered her first panic attack. In On Edge: A Journey Through Anxiety, she recalls how she went from doctor to doctor, one misdiagnosis after another to realize that her physical pain was caused by debilitating anxiety. She was eventually diagnosed with several different anxiety disorders.
Petersen chronicles her anxiety on a very personal level, but also takes us through myriad treatments, both past and present, as well as the physiology and genetics of anxiety disorders.
These accounts of crippling anxiety mixed with studies of this common and misunderstood mental illness have the potential to offer considerable help to anyone suffering from anxiety or close to someone who is.
Public Event
Science Fun with FEMMES
Saturday January 27, 2018: 11:00am to
12:30pm
Westgate Branch: West Side Room
Grade 2 - 6
Blog Post
Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World
by eapearce
Mitch Prinstein, the Director of Clinical Pyschology at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, explains the science behind popularity—and why it can be so elusive for many—in his new book. Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World explains why whether or not we are “popular” as children plays such a huge role in our development. Whether or not we were popular in elementary school and high school has surprising effects on our careers, family life and friendships later on and, interestingly, it's difficult to change our “popularity level.” Prinstein explains that, although we can control to a certain extent whether we are popular or not, craving popularity and striving for it is part of our biology—it’s the way humans are wired.
Prinstein also delves into the difference between being popular because one is likable and being popular because one has high status. Both types of people are socially powerful, but the way others feel about them is vastly different. It’s interesting to read about the details and the science behind popularity, because it’s an issue that even the happiest among us struggle with from time to time. We can all relate to wanting to be well-liked and well-received, and Prinstein’s book offers useful advice for using and controlling those impulses.
Popular is a particularly interesting read today, as social media becomes ever more prevalent in our lives.
Crafts
Erupting Sensory Snow
Thursday January 4, 2018: 2:00pm to
3:00pm
Downtown Library: Secret Lab
Grade K-5
Crafts
Dinosaur Camp!
Friday February 16, 2018: 1:00pm to
3:00pm
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room, Downtown Library: Secret Lab, Downtown Library: Youth Story Corner
Grade K-5
Blog Post
Solar Eclipses
by oldnews
A total solar eclipse will be visible in North America on Monday, August 21. Although in Ann Arbor only a partial eclipse will be visible, it will still be an exciting event! In honor of this event, we have gathered some articles and pictures from past solar eclipses as seen in Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor News' photographer, Cecil Lockard, captured the 1970 eclipse in time lapse. Examples of how to view the event include an Ann Arbor resident's pin hole box created for the 1963 solar eclipse, and the use of paper to project an image as seen in this picture from the 1994 eclipse. See additional photos and articles from the News pertaining to solar eclipses here.
Public Event
Nerd Nite Ann Arbor presented by AADL at LIVE 102 S First St.
Thursday November 16, 2017: 7:00pm to
9:30pm
LIVE (102 S 1st Street)
Adults
Public Event
Nerd Nite Ann Arbor presented by AADL at LIVE 102 S First St.
Thursday October 19, 2017: 7:00pm to
9:30pm
LIVE (102 S 1st Street)
Adults
Public Event
Nerd Nite Ann Arbor presented by AADL at LIVE 102 S First St.
Thursday September 21, 2017: 7:00pm to
9:30pm
LIVE (102 S 1st Street)
Adults
Public Event
Nerd Nite Ann Arbor presented by AADL at LIVE 102 S First St.
Thursday August 17, 2017: 7:00pm to
9:30pm
LIVE (102 S 1st Street)
Adults