Here's how early morning journaling—or "pre-day" journaling—can unlock a sense of focus and clarity for the day ahead.

Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?

Meditation and self

Higher levels of physical activity (PA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) are associated with lower risk of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the relationship of aerobic PA and CRF with risk of atherosclerotic CVD outcomes and heart failure (HF) seem to be distinct. Furthermore, recent studies have raised concerns of potential toxicity associated with extreme levels of aerobic exercise, with higher levels of coronary artery calcium and incident atrial fibrillation noted among individuals with very high PA levels. In contrast, the relationship between PA levels and measures of left ventricular structure and function and risk of HF is more linear. Thus, personalizing exercise levels to optimal doses may be key to achieving beneficial outcomes and preventing adverse CVD events among high risk individuals. In this report, we provide a comprehensive review of the literature on the associations of aerobic PA and CRF levels with risk of adverse CVD outcomes and the preceding subclinical cardiac phenotypes to better characterize the optimal exercise dose needed to favorably modify CVD risk.

Bicycle photos from a NatGeo photographer

There is a tremendous opportunity to develop language around empathy, courage and hope in the midst of a newfound fear of our own vulnerability.

"I don’t care anymore. I’m done with guilt. Life is too short."

" If parents and politicians truly care about their children’s education, they should not only ask what a teacher said about a controversial issue, they should also ask how the teacher said it, and whether students were assessed based on the quality of their work rather than conformity to a particular ideological perspective."

A nonjudgmental psychology (ACT specifically) is failing patients who need to hear hard truths.

Max Fisher’s “The Chaos Machine” examines the psychological impacts of technology.  - great review “we need to make individual members of societies resistant to [algorithmic efforts to manipulate all of society].

A site dedicated to bluegrass Stanley Brothers and Clinch Mountain Boys

JAM songbooks, other song lists for bluegrass jams

Psychedelic-assisted therapy research for depression and PTSD has been fast tracked in the United States with the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) granting breakthrough designations for MDMA (post-traumatic stress disorder) and psilocybin (major depressive disorder). The psychotherapeutic treatments accompanying these psychedelics have not been well-studied and remain controversial. This article reviews the challenges unique to psychedelic-assisted therapy and introduces a newly optimised psychological flexibility model that adapts Contextual Behavioural Science (CBS)

Interestingly, exercise may modify eating behavior, either by a satietogenic effect or by an increase in orexigenic drive [38]. We have previously shown that exercise targeted at the LIPOXmax is satietogenic and decreases nibbling and calorie intake [39], in contrast with exercise targeted at higher intensities where carbohydrate oxidation predominates, which are orexigenic and may frequently target weight gain [40]. It is likely that when exercise is prescribed at low volumes (180-240 min/week) most of its effects are actually due to these effects on eating behavior, since the caloric deficit they induce is very low and cannot by itself explain weight loss.

Don’t run. The argument for low intensity!

High intensity exercise makes hypothyroid patients more hungry because it burns more carbs. Low intensity is way better for hypothyroid folks trying to lose weight.

Official Post from Simon Evans,  but digitally.
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AbstractObjective. this study explored whether the modification of selected lifestyles is likely to increase life expectancy from middle age onwards, regardless

White paper/study from Apple on how they’re doing VO2 max on the Apple Watch

COVID-19 accelerated a decade-long shift to remote work by normalizing working from home on a large scale. Indeed, 75% of US employees in a 2021 survey reported a personal preference for working remotely at least one day per week1, and studies estimate that 20% of US workdays will take place at home after the pandemic ends2. Here we examine how this shift away from in-person interaction affects innovation, which relies on collaborative idea generation as the foundation of commercial and scientific progress3. In a laboratory study and a field experiment across five countries (in Europe, the Middle East and South Asia), we show that videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas. By contrast, when it comes to selecting which idea to pursue, we find no evidence that videoconferencing groups are less effective (and preliminary evidence that they may be more effective) than in-person groups. Departing from previous theories that focus on how oral and written technologies limit the synchronicity and extent of information exchanged4–6, we find that our effects are driven by differences in the physical nature of videoconferencing and in-person interactions. Specifically, using eye-gaze and recall measures, as well as latent semantic analysis, we demonstrate that videoconferencing hampers idea generation because it focuses communicators on a screen, which prompts a narrower cognitive focus. Our results suggest that virtual interaction comes with a cognitive cost for creative idea generation. Videoconferencing inhibits the production of creative ideas, but videoconferencing groups are as effective as (or perhaps even more effective than) in-person groups at deciding which ideas to pursue.