Behavioural scientist Michael Norton: ‘When a tennis player ties their shoes in a particular way, they feel they can play at Wimbledon’
The Harvard professor reveals how everyday rituals can help us cope with pressure, unlock our emotions and define our identities – but can also become unhelpful and divisiveMichael Norton studied psychology and was a fellow at the MIT Media Lab before becomingprofessor of business administration at Harvard Business School. Known for his research on behavioural economics and wellbeing, Norton published his first book,Happy Money: The New Science ofSmarter Spending, withElizabeth Dunn, in 2013. For his latest,The Ritual Effect: The Transformative Power of Our Everyday Actions, out on 18 April, Norton spent more than a deca...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 6, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Killian Fox Tags: Psychology Science Society Science and nature books Source Type: news
The few times I ’ve done investing, I’ve lost my shirt’: Reed Hastings opens up on his investing track record
Netflix cofounder and executive chair Reed Hastings is a billionaire but admits he has trouble figuring out what to do with his money. “The few times I’ve done investing, I’ve lost my shirt,” he said in an interview on the Tim Ferriss Podcast. Hastings, who has an estimated net worth around $6…#netflix #reedhastings #powdermountain #fortune #burningmanofslopes #vanguard #blackrock #larryfink #mattlevine #harvard (Source: Reuters: Health)
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Science students at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired have figured out a way to experience the eclipse
While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Sound and touch devices will be available at public gatherings on April 8, when a total solar eclipse crosses North America, the moon blotting out the sun for a…#yukihatch #austin #nasa #lightsound #wandadíazmerced #harvard #allysonbieryla #mexico #diy #díazmerced (Source: Reuters: Health)
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7 Memorable Eclipses From the Last 250 Years
On April 8, many Americans will be able to see a total eclipse—their last chance to view one in the contiguous U.S. until 2044. Throughout history, eclipses prompt an enthusiasm among people that is contagious, according to author David Baron, whose book American Eclipse covers the 1878 eclipse, which led to a new kind of enthusiasm for science in the U.S.. “Excitement about the 1878 eclipse really got America jazzed about science and galvanized us to try to take on Europe as our own scientific power,” Baron says.
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Below, TIME looks back at notable eclipses...
Source: TIME: Science - April 5, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Olivia B. Waxman Tags: Uncategorized culturepod Eclipse Source Type: news
Why Heart Disease Research Still Favors Men
Published in partnership with The Fuller Project, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to the coverage of women’s issues around the world.
Katherine Fitzgerald had just arrived at the party. Before she could even get a drink, she threw up and broke out in a sweat. “I was dizzy. I couldn’t breathe. I had heart pain,” Fitzgerald says.
She knew she was having a heart attack.
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What she didn’t know then was that the heart attack could have been prevented. Fitzgerald, a health-conscious, exercise-loving lawyer, should have been taking statin drugs to s...
Source: TIME: Health - April 5, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Maggie Fox Tags: Uncategorized freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Orlando biotech is developing an at-home test for endometriosis
From Orlando Inno.
Flowintell, an Orlando startup developing an innovative endometriosis test using menstrual blood, has won the 2024 Crummer Venture Plan Competition, a business plan and pitch competition.
Orlando Inno spoke with Flowintell CEO Jessica King to learn how she’s gotten to this point and what’s ahead.
I was at Harvard and three of my friends in their 30s and 40s were having trouble conceiving. One by one they were diagnosed with endometriosis. That was the first time that… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 5, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Sarah Kinbar Source Type: news
The Ritual Effect by Michael Norton review – standing on ceremony
From Rafael Nadal ’s ball-bouncing to families’ Christmas traditions, what purpose does ritualistic behaviour serve?The adjective “ritual”, from Latin via French, means related to religious rites. (A rite, according to the OED, is “a prescribed act or observance in a religious or other solemn ceremony”.) As soon as it appeared, however, the word “ritual” could be used in a derogatory fashion to denote things empty of authentic spiritual content. In his Ecclesiastical History (1570), for example, the martyrologist John Foxe complained about two epistles erroneously (so he argued) attributed to the third-cent...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 5, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Steven Poole Tags: Society books Health, mind and body books Psychology Culture Science Source Type: news
Maybe The Academic Bubble Is Finally Popping
Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), (Emily Karakis/Unsplash.com) Commentary Academia has fallen on hard times, most signified by the disgrace of Harvard. When high-paid, high-status professors are revealed as plagiarists,…#jeffreyatucker #epochtimes #commentaryacademia #harvard #generationz #wsj #hvac #adp #gibill #worldwarii (Source: Reuters: Health)
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American children are struggling academically
Four years since school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic upended their education, elementary and middle school students have gained back some ground. Unfortunately, they still have a long way to go before being caught up, according to a national analysis of how students are recovering led by…#harvarduniversity #stanforduniversity #harvard #stanford #illinois #mississippi #thomasjkane #margueriteroza #edunomicslab #georgetownuniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 3, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Endowment Funds Can Revolutionise Sarcoma Care in Developing Countries
Kaposi's sarcoma virus. The World Health Organization predicts a 60% rise in global cancer cases over the next two decades, with an 81% increase expected in low- and middle-income countries. Credit: Shutterstock. By Nicholas OkumuNAIROBI, Apr 2 2024 (IPS) Despite global childhood cancer mortality rates dropping by half over the past 50 years, these promising statistics do not extend to Africa and the Global South, where limited resources mean that most cancers are diagnosed at advanced stages.
Consequently, the region reports survival rates of as low as 15% for musculoskeletal sarcomas, a group of cancers that develop in t...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 2, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nicholas Okumu Tags: Africa Development & Aid Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Global push to put natural history collections online gets major U.K. boost
Tucked away in drawers and cabinets in hundreds of institutions around the world may be answers to how our planet formed, how life evolved and interacts, and how resilient it may be in the future. But those collections—millions of ancient rocks and fossils, pressed plants, pinned insects, and other specimens—can only yield insights if researchers around the world can access them.
Now, efforts to digitize collections, making them accessible to all, have received a major boost. Last week, the U.K. government announced that, beginning in 2026, it will provide £155 million (almost $200 million) over the following 10...
Source: ScienceNOW - April 2, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Persistent Disparities Seen by Race/Ethnicity in Incidence of TB
TUESDAY, April 2, 2024 -- Persistent disparities by race/ethnicity are seen in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB), according to a study published online April 2 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.Yunfei Li, Sc.D., from the Harvard T.H. Chan School... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 2, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Scientists link certain gut bacteria to lower heart disease risk
Changes in the gut microbiome have been implicated in a range of diseases including type 2 diabetes, obesity, and inflammatory bowel disease. Now, a team of researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard along with Massachusetts General Hospital has found that microbes in the gut may affect cardiovascular disease as well. In a study published in Cell, the team has identified specific species of bacteria that consume cholesterol in the gut and may help lower cholesterol and heart disease risk in people. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 2, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
Does teleradiology increase malpractice liability for radiologists?
Medical malpractice cases involving teleradiology tend to be more severe and result in higher indemnity payments than other radiology malpractice claims, according to research published April 2 in Radiology.
In a retrospective review of medical malpractice claims over a 12-year period, researchers from Harvard Medical School led by Adam Schaffer, MD, found that teleradiology claims were more likely to involve patient death, as well as indemnity payments (and higher amounts). The teleradiology cases also more frequently involved interprovider communication problems.
“These attributes of teleradiology claims underscore ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 2, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Erik L. Ridley Tags: Enterprise Imaging Malpractice Source Type: news
Consumers Are Most Frequent Posters of Contraception Info on Social Media
MONDAY, April 1, 2024 -- Social media is a popular conduit for birth control information, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in Contraception and Reproductive Medicine.Melody Huang, Ph.D., from Harvard Medical School in Boston, and... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - April 1, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
