Mind and Wellbeing
The Real Cost of Always Achieving
An exploration of how constant pressure to perform can affect identity, wellbeing, relationships, and the way success is understood.
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Welcome Episode
Welcome to Tamu Academy: Learning Across Cultures
Begin with the welcome episode to learn how Tamu Academy connects questions about the mind, power, culture, policy, economics, and the wider world.
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Written Learning Companions
Each article is a written companion to a published episode. Articles expand on the episode's ideas through analysis, definitions, examples, reflection questions, and further reading.
Mind, Systems and WellbeingArticle in Development
Why Therapy Alone Isn't Enough
A look at why individual support matters, while social conditions, institutions, relationships, and community environments also shape wellbeing.
Power and PolicyArticle in Development
Can Policy Make Us Happier?
An examination of how public decisions influence the conditions that support security, belonging, opportunity, connection, and quality of life.
Economics and Global SystemsArticle in Development
Who Controls the Global Economy?
An introduction to the institutions, governments, creditors, currencies, and financial rules that influence how resources and economic power move across the world.
Global Affairs
Is the ICC Biased Against Africa?
The ICC's Africa-heavy record is real, but the deeper bias may lie in the court's jurisdiction, membership rules, and Security Council veto.
Global Affairs
After the Guns Go Silent
Peace does not begin and end with disarmament. Durable peace requires reintegration, community ownership, truth, and repaired relationships.
Mind and Wellbeing
Climate Is a Mental Health Crisis
Climate change is not only an environmental crisis. It is also a crisis of grief, identity, community, belonging, and mental health.
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