Health 2.0: implications of consumer-driven health for traditional providers and new players Source: The Huge Opportunity in Consumer Health Care
A UVA study found that adults who attended a Montessori school for at least two childhood years reported positive feelings about such things as autonomy and self-acceptance. Source: Spending Just a Few Years in Montessori Education Predicts Well-Being in Adulthood
Buy Nothing hopes to find success on a new app. Source: Buy Nothing exploded on Facebook — now it wants a platform of its own – The Verge
The world is rapidly filling up with big, tough, capable electric trucks that are ready to rough-and-tumble their way through a post-apocalyptic landscape. Everything from the Tesla Cybertruck to the Rivian and the massively powerful GMC Hummer is set to prove that electric trucks can be just as big and bad as fossil fuel trucks…
I retired from active-duty service in the U.S. Air Force two years ago, capping a 28-year career as a communications officer and, later, a cyberspace Source: The Air Force Isn’t Doing Information Technology Right – War on the Rocks
Phys.org: House dust from 35 countries reveals our global toxic contaminant exposure and health risk. https://phys.org/news/2022-01-house-countries-reveals-global-toxic.html
A conversation with author Brad Stulberg on finding lasting fulfillment, creating real priorities, and fighting against the sense that you’re not enough. Source: The Case For Letting Things Fall Through the Cracks | GQ
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius practiced Stoicism, and author and psychotherapist Donald Robertson notes a growing interest in the philosophy. Source: Life Hacks from Marcus Aurelius: How Stoicism Can Help Us – Knowledge@Wharton
Fritjof Capra goes beyond The Tao of Physics with The Systems View of Life, a much-needed vision of biology with a dash of Eastern mysticism Source: All systems Tao: Holistic view of life’s networks | New Scientist
Source: Wu Wei: The Foundation to Systems Thinking and the Game of Life | Dude Knows Best
To help us make sense of the opaque poultry supply chain, hundreds of ProPublica readers sent in details about their chickens and turkeys. Here’s what we learned. Source: Your Free-Range Organic Chicken May Have Been Processed at a Large Industrial Poultry Plant — ProPublica