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Police officers in the U.S. are practicing mindfulness to reduce stress and violence
Tragedy struck the city of Dallas last year after a U.S. army veteran killed five police officers. To deal with the traumatization and stress of the incident, the Dallas police force has turned to the practice mindfulness. The technique’s goal is to change the way officers manage stress and their Read More...
Deconditioning: How to replace old behaviors with new ones
Deconditioning is a term used to describe a system for diminishing or eliminating the conditioned responses or behavior patterns that you assume over time. We all develop behaviors and strategies that we run based on our upbringing, past experiences, and what society deems appropriate. In most Read More...
Tax incentives might run out on Tesla, but electric cars will be just fine
Tesla likes to argue that its customers don’t need government subsidies to buy electric vehicles. “In fact, the incentives give us a relative disadvantage,” Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a May 3 investor call. “Tesla has succeeded in spite of the incentives not because of Read More...
Refugees find temporary havens on Airbnb
Sefani Tadesse got the heads-up at dinnertime. Five Airbnb guests would arrive at midnight. Tadesse and her daughter Bella, 13, rushed to clean their Oakland condo, washing towels, making the beds, buying flowers — and packing their own bags, because they vacate their one-bedroom place and stay Read More...
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ is a superheroic meditation on how to be a good person
“Spider-Man: Homecoming,” which zipped into theaters last weekend, is almost everything a summer blockbuster should be: It’s very funny without using humor as an excuse to be less than emotionally accessible; its super-sized throw-downs are anchored in real, human-scale conflicts; its world Read More...
Algorithm spots abnormal heart rhythms with doctor-like accuracy
Researchers from Stanford University have found a way to effectively diagnose heart arrhythmias even if a person isn’t exhibiting symptoms and even without a doctor. They’ve developed an algorithm that can detect 14 types of arrhythmia, and can even differentiate between two very similar types Read More...
Personal cancer vaccines successful in first-stage human trials
We could soon be approaching a time where personal cancer vaccines can be tailored to fight an individual patient’s tumor. Two early-stage human clinical trials have successfully used computer algorithms to choose the specific tumor cells that must be killed in order to treat the cancer. Using Read More...
An unfinished nuclear power plant is finally producing energy—solar energy that is
An abandoned nuclear power plant in Tennessee has been given new life as nearly 3,000 solar panels have been placed on the site. The Phipps Bend Nuclear Power Plant has scarred the landscape since it was abandoned in 1981. Now the site will provide clean energy to around 100 homes in the local Read More...
The developer who made FarmVille is changing the way Indians buy seafood
One of the architects behind the wildly popular online game FarmVille has created an online marketplace called FreshtoHome that works with thousands of fisherman and other livestock farmers in India to bring fresh, chemical-free fish and meat to consumers. FreshtoHome sources products directly from Read More...
What constitutes a 'good' decision?
We ask ourselves all the time whether the decisions we make are good ones or bad ones, but what exactly is a “good” decision? On the surface at least, the answer may seem obvious. However, in reality, it is deceptively difficult to pin down exactly what a good decision is. See here how to Read More...