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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
potential workers—such as veterans, caregivers, immigrants, and individuals with mental or physical health issues—who might otherwise be overlooked. How AI Accelerated a COVID-19 Vaccine Karim Lakhani, the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- News
Analyzing Homelessness
responded to a homelessness activist’s challenge by volunteering in shelters and listening to residents’ and administrators’ stories. Along with crime, poverty, domestic abuse, and PTSD, Shumway says homelessness has roots in “widespread View Details
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- News
Finding Freedom from Eating Disorders
was stunning. It was all new to her—she’d never known anyone who’d had an eating disorder, and hadn’t thought much about it before. It just wasn’t on her radar. But as she’d discover, eating disorders are a pervasive form of mental... View Details
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Joy to the World
focused on true mental health from a young age. Not in the sense that we often talk about mental health—of it being kind of treating mental... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
Waldron says. “We were having a crisis in education before the pandemic, in terms of disparities in kids’ learning gains.” Now, after two years of disrupted learning in many places, those inequities are even more apparent, and progress is hindered by continued absences... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
sense of empowerment and spiritual well-being in the minibattles that were fought and won on the "hills" at the gym's spinning studio. Finding that personal source of support and inspiration was essential for Linn's mental and physical... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Woodstock in 1969. “Let all our actions, and all our arts, express Yoga,” he told the crowd of some 400,000 people, before leading them in a resounding “om,” a resonant sound considered sacred in yoga texts. In later decades, as the flower children faded, yoga became... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Brain cancer is almost always fatal. There are no cures for neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or ALS. And mental health remains a global burden.” Worse yet, despite all of medical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
health and medical advances, says Johnston, "there are huge possibilities for new products and services [see sidebars], but business needs to change its mentality about aging. With innovation will come... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
found the murder of an unarmed Black person at the hands of the police was linked to poor mental health in the Black population of the state where it occurred for three months. I started my career in... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
fill their own cars with fruits, vegetables, meat, and bread from Coles or other supermarkets and drive to their churches, where they cook a meal for neighbors in need. “A lot of the people in shelters have had mental illness and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
evidence has shown that social behavior—including helping others—improves our mental and physical health and extends life expectancy. One study on mortality following 7,000 people found that the risk of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
do with engaging, and that’s what excites and delights our members,” she says. After earning her MBA, she worked as an executive in the senior-housing industry, which included oversight of a multibillion-dollar portfolio for a health care... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
persons from 1999 to 2016. Beyond the devastating personal costs, there is an economic toll, too, caused by rising health care expenses for overdose prevention drugs and addiction treatment, criminal justice costs, and productivity loss... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
opportunity. An organization cannot be a meritocracy when the small number of black employees spend a significant percentage of their mental bandwidth wondering, “Why aren’t there more people like me? Am I being treated differently?”... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
start.” Taking care of your physical and mental health while launching a company is just harder, said Garg, who advised founders to get the support of an executive coach or therapist if they can. Saigal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
dealing with a health problem or marital problem, they might have a slumped posture or something like that. But it's really hard to read the room now. So there's a lot of changes in communication now that we're in the Zoom era. One of the... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
A Casual Approach to Success
down-to-earth mentality is also apparent in Hellman’s athletic endeavors. He grew up riding horses and later played varsity water polo at the University of California, Berkeley. Often attributing his athletic achievements to an ability to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
defense internally and in the public spotlight. Along with reports of players' pharmacological and off-field transgressions (behaviors also found in other professional sports leagues), the NFL has had to address new medical research into football's deleterious View Details