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Your Brain on Money
Change bad spending habits in 5 steps
Addicted to spending money you want to save? Here’s how to stop.
Lindsay Bryan-Podvin
Million Stories
Two Japanese men sleep on a train car.
The Learning Curve
The world must learn from “karoshi,” Japan’s overwork epidemic — before it’s too late
It is estimated that as many as 488 million people worldwide were exposed to dangerously long working hours in 2016.
Kevin Dickinson
Black and white sketch of a man in formal attire with short hair, bow tie, and jacket, facing sideways with arms slightly raised.
5mins
The Well
How to articulate your thoughts effectively
Make it simple. Make it clear. Make it stick. Alan Alda on how to get everyone to understand your thoughts.
Alan Alda
John Templeton Foundation
Thinking
Can’t move on? Here’s what the Buddhist idea of anattā teaches about letting go
Give yourself (and others) a break.
Jonny Thomson
Neuropsych
The trouble with medicating mental illness
Has the "age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Katherine Ellison
millennials
Health
Why are Millennials having so many strokes?
Millennials are reversing a 40-year decline in stroke deaths.
Ross Pomeroy
love
The Present
Americans are among the most loving, Chinese and Germans the least
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
Ross Pomeroy
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