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Pew Research Fact Tank

The state of the U.S. Postal Service in 8 charts

6 min · From 2020 · The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31. · Shared by 14, including Noah "Rabbit = Good Friend" Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Ayala Sherbow
Harvard Business Review

That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief

6 min · From 2020 · The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy. · Shared by 892, including Sylvia Duckworth, Michael Hyatt, Kevin Kruse, Charles Duhigg, Marsha Collier, Mathew Ingram, Dr. Laura Markham, Matt Heinz, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Mike Allton, Dave deBronkart, Nilofer Merchant, Hrag, Rachel Botsman, Eric Holthaus, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Alex Cavoulacos, Paul Ekman, Biz Carson, Whitney Johnson
coronavirus
psychology
covid 19
Quartz

How the human brain stays young even as we age

6 min · From 2019 · Understanding how most brains maintain youthful plasticity could lead scientists to figure out why some don't. · Shared by 156, including USC, Marius Bleuer, John Hagel, Jonathan Kogan, Ward Plunet, Ayala Sherbow, Jane, Thomas Power, Faik Ersoy, @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Liv 😷 💙
brain
Fast Company

How you can train your brain to pick up (and maintain) new habits

1 min · From 2019 · Your brain has everything to do with how you act. · Shared by 134, including Bilal Aslam, Mike Atwater, PhD, Liv 😷 💙, Faik Ersoy, Ayala Sherbow, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Martin Soorjoo
brain
The Gradient (sigmoid.social/@thegradient)

An Epidemic of AI Misinformation

11+ min · From 2019 · Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided.—… · Shared by 277, including Josep M. Ganyet, Evan Selinger, Luca Hammer, Mayhem, Just Mayhem., Claudia Sommer, Gengo 🦁, AGI.Eth | MTL.Eth, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Yves Mulkers, ...und meine Frau ist auch Elon Musk!, John Maeda, Dr Catherine Breslin, Gary Marcus, Thomas Power, hardmaru, Matthias Lampe, Nige Roberts-Willson, Prof. Anima Anandkumar, Moritz Stefaner
artificial intelligence
Quanta Magazine

The Architect of Modern Algorithms

9 min · From 2019 · Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone. · Shared by 198, including Oscar MacDonald, Fabricio Teixeira, andrew chen, Ines Bieler, Stephan Woodtli, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Carla Gentry, Matthias Lampe, @brianleroux@indieweb.social 💙, Jeff Atwood, Russ Cox, Steven Sinofsky, Gary Thomas 🌐, Brad Feld, Ayala Sherbow, Esther Schindler, dunschtig, hiten.eth
programming
women
Neuroscience News

Your brain on sugar: What the science actually says

4 min · From 2019 · From reducing memory capability to increasing the risk of diabetes and obesity, researchers investigate how sugar affects the brain and body. · Shared by 153, including Ayala Sherbow, Martina Grolimund, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liv 😷 💙, Jonathan Kogan, Gabriele, Bilal Aslam, Matthias Lampe
brain
sugar
The Economist

How what’s in our heads changes what’s in the world

8 min · From 2019 · Better “mental models” are vital to improve society, says Shane Parrish · Shared by 153, including Stefan Henry, Ayala Sherbow, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Thomas Power, Liv 😷 💙, Kenneth Cukier, Dominik Grolimund, Faik Ersoy
society
self
The Guardian

History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future

20+ min · From 2019 · The long read: Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to an objective version of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis? · Shared by 206, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Paddy Zab, Jane, Dean Anthony Gratton, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Ayala Sherbow, Jochen Burkhard, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Bas Grasmayer, David Nagel, Ⓓarío Macchi, george, Oscar MacDonald, Tom Vander Ark, Martina Pugliese, Christian Fauteux, Claudia Sommer
science
history
data
complexity
Farnam Street

Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World

8 min · From 2019 · The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become. Here’s how to develop the power of an elastic mind. · Shared by 280, including Jason Lauritsen, Scott Monty, Jacob du Toit, Ayala Sherbow, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, davidabrock, ΛLΞX TRΞJʘ, Doug Sundheim, Henneke Duistermaat, Ines Bieler, Vikram Dutt, fnord, Thomas Pleil, Dominik Grolimund, Stephan Woodtli, Oscar MacDonald, John Tan⚡️
innovation
creativity
self
thinking
personal development
creative
The Atlantic

Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire

11+ min · From 2019 · Social media rapidly changed how we communicate, in ways that destabilize democracy. What can we do about that? · Shared by 341, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jonathan Haidt, Marsha Collier, Brent Beshore, Claudia Sommer, Scott Galloway, Tara Mathena Imani, AIA, Dorlee Michaeli, MBA, LCSW, HeidiCohen - Top Global Marketer, Mathew Ingram, Philanthropy News Digest, justin caouette, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Scott McLeod, Vaughan Bell, Michael Shermer, Thomas Power, Mark Kaigwa, Morgan Housel, Klaus Eck
social media
politics
health
psychology
society
mental health
medium.com

Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything

8 min · From 2019 · Overthinking can lead to serious emotional distress and increase your risk of mental health problems · Shared by 715, including Ceferino Díaz, Stephan Woodtli, Rich, Liv 😷 💙, Maurizio Tondolo, Liliane Ferrari ™, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Phillip Murphy, Stephanie A Kowalski, Carly, Nir Eyal, Bilal Aslam, Gabriele, Thomas Power, Ayala Sherbow, Dr. Simon A. Rego, Howard Getson, Carlos Luis Pinto, Niklaus Gerber, Katja Evertz
psychology
mental health
stress
self help
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