Is Your Email Making You Sick? One Thing New, inc.com Researcher Linda Stone says 80% of us suffer from so-called email apnea. That quelches our creativity and can contribute to stress-related diseases. Your inbox may be causing you more stress than you realize. According to Linda Stone, a… Is Your Email Making You Sick? http://flip.it/21Hqu … Continue reading Email apnea: how your email is making you sick
Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does checking Twitter during the workday really leave you scatterbrained? Could taking up meditation help you tune out the noise and focus better? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental … Continue reading Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus
sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org WikimediaAll by myself. I don’t need anyone at all. I know I’ll survive. I know I’ll stay alive. Perch are shy. They like to band together for protection, swimming together in schools the way nerds all share the nerd table in the high-school… Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into … Continue reading Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into weird loners
FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Today the United States Food and Drug Administration approved a device that treats depression using… magnets. About 14.8 million American adults, or 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population, are diagnosed with major depression in … RT @FastCompany: FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating … Continue reading FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression
A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Corn is a grain, knucklehead. Keeping up with the eating habits of our cave-dwelling ancestors can be tough. Luckily someone has slapped together a handy flowchart for you to reference if you’ve hopped on the latest diet-craze… http://flip.it/TxJpy Related articles Eating Like A … Continue reading A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman
Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com This year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The … Continue reading Top chemicals causing autism
Smartphone app that assesses behavioral health raises $6.5M Stephanie Baum, medcitynews.com A health IT startup that got its start evaluating college students behavior based on their smartphone use has raised $6.5 million, according to a company statement.The San Francisco behavior analytics firm Ginger.io co-founder and CEO Anmol Madan… http://flip.it/vRhhX Related articles Guest Post: The Ginger.io … Continue reading Ginger.io behavioral health IT startup
Cities have been the engines of civilization for millennia, serving as places where the arts, commerce, and ideas flourish. But as we are reminded in a recent article, the close social interactions that make a city so productive also proved ideal for tuberculosis, measles, the plague, and many other diseases. In European capitals, circa 1800, … Continue reading The promise and perils of cities
Robert Sapolsky a bio anthropologist is leading the search for a stress vaccine using evolutionary science. Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Researchers create needle-free vaccine out of sugar (itv.com) Vaccine effectiveness tied to sleep habits (time4sleep.com) NaturalNews - FDA Approves First GMO Flu Vaccine Containing Reprogrammed … Continue reading Biological Anthropologists search for Stress Vaccine
One person's happiness goes a long way, study finds - The Boston Globe. using social networking to study the dissemination of emotional health Related articles You May Have To Choose Between A Happy Life And A Meaningful Life (businessinsider.com) An Introvert's Guide to Happiness (everydayhealth.com) Some Things That Will Make You Happy... (ejaife.wordpress.com) Are Your … Continue reading The social networks of happiness
Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?. Related articles ADHD Symptoms In Toddlers (answers.com) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, suicide as they enter adulthood (sciencedaily.com) Irregular sleep patterns linked to ADHD-like symptoms, says study (time4sleep.co.uk) Is there a link between ADHD and spectacular financial failures? (guardian.co.uk) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, … Continue reading Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?
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