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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!
We just wanted everyone to know how much we appreciate everyone and how thankful we are for all our readers and writers here. We wouldn’t be anywhere without you, so thank you all for bringing informative, vulnerable, and important pieces ... | ['Mental Health', 'Health', 'Psychology', 'Science', 'Neuroscience'] |
Your Brain On Coronavirus
A guide to the curious and troubling impact of the pandemic and isolation
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The coronavirus pandemic frustrates and confounds epidemiologists and immunologists, even after months of study. It frustrates politicians and public health officials dealing with mask n... | ['Mental Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Science', 'Psychology', 'Neuroscience'] |
Mind Your Nose
How smell training can change your brain in six weeks — and why it matters.
By Ann-Sophie Barwich
When it comes to training your brain, your sense of smell is possibly the last thing you’d think could strengthen your neural pathways. Learning a new language or reading more books (and fewer social medi... | ['Biotechnology', 'Neuroscience', 'Brain', 'Wellness', 'Science'] |
Passionate about the synergy between science and technology to provide better care. Check out my newsletter: scienceforreal.substack.com 📰
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You’ve heard of him, haven’t you? Phineas Gage. The railroad worker who survived an explosion that involved an iron rod piercing through his left cheek and out of his brain and skull.
Yeah.
I know.
You’re probably wondering “yeah, alright sweet. What about him?” Well, let’s just say that he was a really popular pati... | ['Brain', 'Health', 'Development', 'Psychology', 'Science'] |
Mentally, Young Adults Are Suffering Most From COVID
“When it comes to having a painful feeling, the only way out is through.”
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“Young individuals reported higher acute stress and depressive symptoms than older respondents, suggesting that despite being most deadly for older p... | ['Society', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Nonfiction', 'Coronavirus'] |
How to Turn Your Popular Blog Series Into a Bestselling Book
Thoughts from someone who’s done it five times
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Every serious writer’s dream is to see their name on a bestselling book — one that people eagerly read, review, and tell their friends about.
Is that your dream?
It can c... | ['Books', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Marketing', 'Productivity'] |
Dr Faisal Dar — Pioneer of Liver Transplantation in Pakistan
Dr. Fasial Dar is the pioneer of liver transplantation in Pakistan. He works at Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad where he conducted the first ever transplant in 2010 of a 9 year old boy. Recently, along with his team he has successfully completed 200 ... | ['People', 'Storyfest', 'Health', 'Pakistan', 'Storytelling'] |
Sunlight — The Natural Supplement For Our Mental Health
The science behind how the sun is related to our mental wellbeing
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Yoga, meditation, binaural beats, aroma therapy. All of these are our attempts at improving our mental health. More than ever, this generation has spoken out abo... | ['Self Improvement', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Science'] |
Occam’s dice
Distrusting biological metaphors
“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ‘Seek simpli... | ['Machine Learning', 'Science', 'Neuroscience', 'Psychology', 'Artificial Intelligence'] |
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People want to know why you do what you do.
If you’re an entrepreneur, your investors, customers, and employees want to know why you founded your company. Apply for a job, and recruiters ask about your career path. If you’re a freelancer, everyone is curious about how you got started.
Why do ... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Personal Development', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Storytelling'] |
A few months ago, I wrote an article sharing several writing exercises from famous authors.
Just as pianists practice scales to strengthen their skills like rhythm and timing, writers can sharpen specific skills through deliberate practice.
Since publishing that original article, I’ve been searching for more creative... | ['Productivity', 'Writing', 'Fiction', 'Books', 'Creativity'] |
1. Since immunity to the novel coronavirus may not last long, doesn’t the virus need to be eradicated in order for the pandemic to end?
Humans generally become immune to a pathogen after immunization or recovery from an infection. Depending on the particular disease or vaccine as well as host characteristics such as t... | ['Health', 'Science', 'Wellness', 'Coronavirus', 'Covid 19'] |
As an architect and the author of a book about the psychology of creative space design, I have long wondered why contemporary creatives cluster so willingly in noisy coffee shops. Granted, there’s scientific research that caffeine fuels the imagination, but doesn’t the surrounding din interfere with their ability to th... | ['Writing', 'Psychology', 'Interior Design', 'Design', 'Creativity'] |
“Your subconscious mind works continuously, while you are awake, and while you sleep.” — Napoleon Hill
Your subconscious never rests and is always on duty because it controls your heartbeat, blood circulation, and digestion. It controls all the vital processes and functions of your body and knows the answers to all yo... | ['Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Motivation', 'Startup', 'Life'] |
The Simplest Form of Mindfulness Is Also the Most Effective
Most of us are cognitively aware that our bad habits are, well, BAD. The challenge is that our prefrontal cortex (front section of the brain) that is responsible for this awareness is the first to go offline when we get stressed. When this brain center logs o... | ['Lifestyle', 'Health', 'Wellness', 'Science', 'Psychology'] |
Gather around kids and let me tell you a story. Once upon a time, people grew up and got one job that paid all of their bills, let them save some money, and was enough to do big things like buy a house and put their kids through college.
Once upon a time, that was just what happened. It’s sometimes called the American... | ['Work', 'Productivity', 'Creativity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
By Rashida Kamal and Vivien Ngo
Enigma’s latest project Food for Thought provides an interactive interface to explore health inspection data for restaurants across New York City. We dug a little deeper into the relationships between these inspection scores and how popular restaurants are with New Yorkers to highlight ... | ['New York', 'Data Visualization', 'Public Data', 'Dataviz', 'Engineering'] |
A Social Worker Offered Mormon Lingo to Me When I Was in Crisis, Told Me to Think Happy Thoughts, and Hung Up on Me — While I Was Still in Crisis Rhett Wilkinson Follow May 26, 2019 · 3 min read
I called a crisis line. You may say it was tragically less than helpful. In fact, it only made the situation worse. The issu... | ['Suicide', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Utah', 'Psychology'] |
You’ve spent hours pouring your heart and soul into a blog post.
You’re writing about an important topic that you’re sure will help readers, and you want to convey your message as effectively as possible.
So you’ve edited each paragraph until your eyes ached from staring at the computer screen. You’ve crafted a compe... | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Writing Tips', 'Creativity'] |
Loss Aversion — how fear influences customer choice
Why the possibility of loss is one of the most potent psychological principles in marketing
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Have you ever experienced FOMO — the “Fear of Missing Out”?
It’s a form of social anxiety that makes people scared they’re being lef... | ['Marketing', 'Business', 'Creativity', 'Psychology', 'Startup'] |
The FDA Banned These Chemicals — and They’re Still Everywhere
Antibacterial compounds are no longer in your hand soap, but they’re in your floors, your walls, and in your body.
Just about two years ago, activists who work to reduce environmental contamination from hazardous chemicals were feeling pretty cheerful. Aft... | ['Health', 'Environment', 'Wellness', 'Microbiome', 'Science'] |
There’s a debate that anyone who has spent any amount of time thinking about being a writer has come across. (I’m going to go out on a ledge an say anyone who has thought about being any sort of artist has come up against this debate.)
Should we write because we must or should we write for money?
The must side is so ... | ['Creativity', 'Art', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
These similarities below are the skills and tools that both roles use. Mainly used by both are the programming languages and tools that help to deploy a Data Science model. Depending on the company, a Data Scientist could expect to work more on deployment, or the same could be said about a Data Engineer.
Most importan... | ['Humor', 'Mental Health', 'Health', 'Coronavirus', 'Science'] |
Don’t Be a Writer, Be an Entrepreneur Who Writes
The world isn’t short of great writers, it’s short of great entrepreneurs who write
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An entrepreneur who writes is different from a writer. Being an entrepreneur means your true passion lies in using your wits to make money. Writing i... | ['Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Startup', 'Marketing', 'Blogging'] |
What Should Systems Neuroscience Do Next? Voltage Imaging
The firing and the wiring at the same time
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The best thing about being a neuroscientist is that neuroscience never stands still. Barely a week passes without some new major result, a sparkling technological breakthrough, a provoking theoretical... | ['Neuroscience', 'Psychology', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Machine Learning', 'Science'] |
I published my first article in November 2014. I had no idea what I was doing, but I had fun. Ironically, the only way to keep this fun around long-term was to consider writing the most serious job I’ve ever had. So I committed.
Now, over four years later, nothing is the same. Except that part. The fun’s still here. I... | ['Marketing', 'Creativity', 'Art', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing'] |
Your Brand is What People Expect From You
Here’s what you can do about it
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When people first meet you, they don’t know what to expect.
So they start judging you by your name, your profile picture, and the title of your blog post.
If you’re a writer, people will probably meet yo... | ['Marketing', 'Writing', 'Business', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Productivity'] |
Writing
The Only Book About Writing You’ll Ever Need
I’ve read it 10 times
Six years ago, I sort of forgot how to write. I’d been publishing on the internet for a little over a year — that first, embarrassing, thrilling, bringing-a-laptop-to-parties year (I’m fun at parties) — and I’d run out of things to say. What ... | ['Books', 'Writing', 'Productivity', 'Writing Advice', 'Creativity'] |
CODE AND DOWNLOADS
The code for this series can be found at this Github repo. The application is run from Jupyter notebook. There are .py (Python) files that will contain code for the layout and data manipulation. I used, and highly recommend, Visual Studio Code for working with these as there are a number of handy ex... | ['Exploratory Data Analysis', 'Dashboard', 'Plotly', 'Visualization', 'Data Analysis'] |
Apple’s Tim Cook, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg beamed into a congressional hearing via video chat today to face 4+ hours of questions about whether they abuse their dominant positions in the market. Spoiler: they said everything’s cool.
By Chloe Albanesius & Michael Kan
... | ['Apple', 'Business', 'Google', 'Facebook', 'Amazon'] |
How to Be Productive and Creative in Times of Panic
It wouldn’t hurt to mute the word ‘coronavirus’ on social media for 24 hours
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Hours after the 9/11 attacks, I finally made it back to my apartment in uptown New York City. Like everyone else lucky enough to return home that day, I exis... | ['Life Lessons', 'Health', 'Creativity', 'Coronavirus', 'Productivity'] |
Making the most of Quora for content marketing
There are several things you can do to boost your chance of having your blog posts receive attention on Quora:
1. Submit answers to popular questions: The most viewed and upvoted answers on Quora tend to have the highest potential to attract outbound traffic. It follows ... | ['Productivity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Writing', 'Startup', 'Social Media'] |
You Need To Show Up Every Single Day.
“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.” — Steven Pressfield
I used to be a master procrastinator in College. If my professor gave me a task to complete, I’d always find an excuse. I’d say it was too difficult... | ['Creativity', 'Entrepreneurship', 'Blogging', 'Productivity', 'Writing'] |
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