Category: Health & Cognitive Science
Formerly “healing and emotional wellness”.
Health & Cognitive Science is a better description for the kind of evidence based health news and cognitive health, neuroscience, and psychology studies I like to read and share.
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Glimmers vs Terrible Things
It feels almost grotesque to watch everything going on globally, and then get up and write out to-do lists and shopping lists, to arrange playdates, to fold away laundry. But the terrible things don’t seem to go away. Like pigeons, they seem to gather and gather. And we need to eat and have clean clothes…
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STEM & Cognitive Science Links Roundup for Nov 24, 2024
Why saying “good luck” might undermine success, the surprising effects of venting, and how oxytocin could combat addiction. Discover how kids learn best after witnessing impossible events, and why your body’s cells might have more to do with memory than we thought.
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Finding Hope in Life’s Revisions- on failure, fifth drafts and third acts
On resilience. In life, starting over again and again can be seen as inconsistency or failure. In writing and product design, it’s refinement.
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Prompts: podcasts I’m listening to.
As a product designer and as someone with adhd, I love learning about what drives our behaviour and beliefs- individually and collectively. I also like to laugh and be entertained, not lectured. These 4 are my faves.
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The Spirit of Theranos lives on in Femtech
A drop of blood and methods that may not work. that This isn’t the first femtech startup with controversy around efficacy, privacy or safety
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Is There Any Proof Vision Boards Work?
Where I dig into studies on vision boards and distill when and how they do and don’t work.
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YES, UVA rays do enter through the window: and 6 myths about sunlight
Shade isn’t an SPF, and other sun myth busting I’m forced to engage in regularly.
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How to actually deal with negative thoughts – for anxiety sufferers
For people with anxiety, popular advice for negative thoughts only makes them stronger. Here’s what actually works.
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Code Switching: How being “Other” leaves you Empty
We’ve heard that socialising is good for our health, but for POC and neurodivergents, socialising goes hand in hand with Code Switching – which harms our mental wellbeing.
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Health And Emotional Wellness Roundup – Nov 14: Feeling happy is just one component of Happiness
Happiness is just one element of what makes us “Happy”; Time Famine – How it Negatively Impacts our Health; How to have a meaningful life; Vit B12 deficiency linked to some Alzheimer’s
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