The date is January 19th, 1915, and you’re aboard the sailing vessel Endurance on a scientific excursion to Antarctica. Suddenly, pack ice halts the ship, immobilizing it like a bear in a trap. For the next ten months, you and twenty-seven of your coworkers remain stuck on this helpless vessel, jammed in the ice floe. [...]

Herbert Blumer, a pioneering sociologist, spent his entire life studying human interactions, including the theory that what we see, shapes the mind. Blumer determined that people behave according to three influences. One, the meaning that things and events have for you (example: a peace sign, education, & cultural holidays). Two, the meaning of things and [...]