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Antimicrobial resistance is growing worldwide, rendering many "work horse" medicines ineffective. Without intervention, drug-resistant pathogens could lead to millions of deaths by 2050. Thankfully, companies like Pfizer are taking action. Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens are one of the largest threats to global health today. As we get older, our immune systems age, increasing our risk of life th
Daniel Goleman: My co-author of the book Altered Traits is a neuroscientist, Richard Davidson. He has a lab at the University of Wisconsin. It’s a very large lab, he has dedicated scanners, he has about 100 people working there, and he was able to do some remarkable research where he flew Olympic level meditators—who live in Nepal or India typically, some in France—he flew them over to the lab and
Copy a link to the article entitled http://Twenty-Six%20Years%20Later,%20What%20Happened%20to%20the%20“Marriage%20Crunch”%20Generation%20of%20Women? Newsweek magazine in 1986 stunned a generation of college-educated single women by reporting that they had a better chance of being killed by a terrorist than ever walking down an aisle clutching a bouquet of flowers. Those women are now in their late
Are cell phones destroying creativity? Podcast host, author, and relentless examiner of the modern human condition Manoush Zomorodi believes that they are. When we are bored, the brain enters what is called “default mode”—think about the way your mind wanders when you’re in the shower or doing the dishes. This might not seem like valuable time but our creativity really kicks into high gear. We now
Those predictions will be a scientifically rigorous version of our usual methods for interpreting behavior: explaining people’s actions as the result of their feelings, perceptions and thoughts. When Josh Aronson and his colleagues showed they could get women to score better on a math test by telling them gender doesn’t affect math scores, they’re showing what psychologists can do with better know
Question: How is our everyday notion of time flawed? David Albert: Well, in a number of ways. First of all, you might say that the sort of gesture with which physics gets under way in the first place is a gesture that lots of philosophers in the Continental tradition have come to call the spatialization of time. That is, the way time appears in physics is as another component, a fourth component,
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