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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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Addiction Interaction, Relapse and Recovery
Substance abuse and dependence rarely occur in a vacuum. Today's addict is faced with a multitude of issues that may co-exist and compromise recovery.
How Many People Could You Kill With All the Caffeine Consumed on Friends?
In a cup or two a day, the caffeine in coffee tweaks us out enough to be the driving force behind the workforce. Ingest all the coffee that they did on Friends, however, and you'll be asking yourself, "could I be...any more dead?" No TV show exemplified our love of coffee more than Friends...
How Many People Could You Kill With All the Caffeine Consumed on Friends?
In a cup or two a day, the caffeine in coffee tweaks us out enough to be the driving force behind the workforce. Ingest all the coffee that they did on Friends, however, and you’ll be asking yourself, “could I be…any more dead?”No TV show exemplified our love of coffee more than Friends ...
Mrs. Dalloway in New York City: Documenting How People Talk to Themselves in Their Heads
On any given day, millions of conversations reverberate through New York City. Poke your head out a window overlooking a busy street and you will hear them: all those overlapping sentences, only half-intelligible, forming a dense acoustic mesh through which escapes an exclamation, a buoyant laugh, a child's shrill cry now and then...
The Overgeneralization of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Say you are out on a camping trip with some friends. You're in the woods, the tents are up, the beer is out, the sun is down, the campfire is starting up.
When and Where Is It Okay to Cry?
A few weeks ago, an article appeared in my LinkedIn feed that asked "Is crying acceptable in the workplace?' I'll save you the click thru: the short answer in this piece is no.
#DispatchesDNLee: Settling Back Into Morogoro
I am back and ready to work. Kind of. LOL, this heat and humidity is kicking my butt. What was I thinking coming back in the rainy season? Oh, yeah, I gotta know how the different seasonal patterns may affect natural history of the Pouched Rats.My time has been on getting the necessary approvals to get back into the field...
The World Science Festival is Coming!
Heads up, readers: The World Science Festival is coming to New York City! From May 29th through June 2nd, New York City will be host to a variety of events designed to make science accessible to a larger audience.While some events do require a ticket, many are free, including a science fair done street-style planned for Washington Square Park which promises lots of hands-on events for visitors of all ages...
Are safe working conditions too expensive for knowledge-builders?
Last week's deadly collapse of an eight-story garment factory building in Dhaka, Bangladesh has prompted discussions about whether poor countries can afford safe working conditions for workers who make goods that consumers in countries like the U.S...
Animal culture: insights from whales
This article is the second part of a two-part series on animal culture. The first part discusses some new findings of adopting local food preferences in vervet monkeys.
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