Physical activity can benefit both physical and mental well-being. Different forms of exercise (e.g., aerobic versus anaerobic; running versus walking, swimming, or yoga; high-intensity interval training versus endurance workouts; etc.) impact physical fitness in different ways. For example, running may… Read More ›
Health
Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older
Why does it feel that the time passes faster as we get older? What is the physical basis for the impression that some days are slower than others? Why do we tend to focus on the unusual (the surprise), not… Read More ›
The HySpeed sneaker
When a fully-charged performance wear brand such as Athletic Propulsion Labs – or APL, as it’s more commonly known – and automobile heavyweights McLaren announce that they’re collaborating on luxury footwear, you know the results are going to be spectacular…. Read More ›
What happens to your brain when you don’t get enough sleep?
First, when we accumulate a sleep debt, we lose some of the subjective ability to judge how that lack of sleep affects us.Second, even though we don’t realize it, objective tests show that we continue to have “deficits … in… Read More ›
How old is your dog in human years?
If there’s one myth that has persisted through the years without much evidence, it’s this: multiply your dog’s age by seven to calculate how old they are in “human years.” In other words, the old adage says, a four-year-old dog… Read More ›
Turning away children
In one case, a crisis CAMHS team in Wales would not immediately assess the mental health of an actively suicidal child who had been stopped from jumping off a building earlier the same day unless the GP made a written… Read More ›
The Dyson Zone™🤣
Today, Jake Dyson has unveiled the Dyson Zone™, Dyson’s first step into wearable technology. The Dyson Zone™ is a set of noise cancelling, high fidelity over-ear headphones which simultaneously deliver immersive sound to the ears, and purified airflow to the… Read More ›
The Shape Of Walking
In those early days of the pandemic, classes moved online, and my partner and I no longer spent hours commuting to our respective universities to teach. Instead, we took turns pushing the stroller around our neighborhood. At each intersection we… Read More ›
Taking more than 8,000 steps has no added benefits (possibly)
Walking just 6,000 steps a day could reduce the risk of early death in people over 60, a study has found. Taking more than 8,000 steps, however, has no added benefit in reducing this risk, according to researchers from the… Read More ›
Lose the stand ring…
“That can be a little bit of unnecessary noise,” he says. If you’re in the middle of a project or focused, the buzz to stand up can make you lose focus and even create a little anxiousness to close that… Read More ›
