A recent paper Time, Money and Morality reviewed in The Economist (Time is not money) offered insight into human behaviour that could help make the world a better place. Authors Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania report the results of studies that show that people primed to think about …
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Ocean conditions are ripe for mass extinction
As the government of the richest country in the world bickers over whether or not to give basic healthcare to poor people, the world is dying. The International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) warns of multiple threats the oceans are facing. Overfishing. Too much CO2. Fertiliser run-off coming from rivers. Basically too …
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Deepak Chopra on putting together good teams.
Chopra on good teams. He hits all the right buttons: Since my life’s work has always focused on self-awareness and well being, I have made those two attributes the criterion for people I want to work with. In my course, The Soul of Leadership, I advise employers not only to get references and bios from …
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A healthy lifestyle can magically make you live longer.
OK, so that sounds a bit dramatic and the idea is not exactly novel: That healthy living – diet, exercise and stress management – helps you live longer. But emerging science suggests that there is a real rejuvenation at the cellular level. And it’s not induced by some chemical cream from a pharmachem cosmetics company. …
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The god and bad of not having enough …
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir was reviewed by The Economist here. People can succumb to a “scarcity mindset” when they feel they have too few friends, time or calories, as well as too little money. This mindset has benefits because it helps you focus on pressing …
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How Money Actually Buys Happiness
But not in the way you think. Have a quick look through this post on the Harvard Business Review blog. (http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/06/how_money_actually_buys_happiness.html?goback=.gde_2827692_member_254100025 and it’s copied below in case it’s moved.) Research shows that more stuff does not make you happier, but regularly giving to people without does make you happier. Why? Because empathy is strong in …
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Facebook, Google and other data grabbers really know you. Really.
Let’s just skip to the meat: Digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age, and gender. That’s just scary, especially when you think …
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Living like a human let’s you love longer.
That is not a trite comment because most of us don’t live very natural lifestyles. We sit around most of the day and eat processed “food” and drink sugary “water”. Humans are built for mobility. We are bipedal and that physiological mutation allows us to travel far and fast allowing us to overcome other beasts …
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Your rotting brain.
The headline “smoking rots brain” looked ominous. Skimming through the article pointed to a couple of studies about the rate of cognitive decline and the influence of age, diet, exercise and smoking. The story indicated that brains start to decline from about the age of 45 and lifestyle has a big impact on the rate …
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Is a vegetative brain alive?
It looks like some medical books will be redrafted. A patient who woke from a coma a decade ago and has been vegetative ever since, has now communicated with carers through brain imaging. It’s the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give “answers” clinically relevant to their care. It will …
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