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How to Make Buildings Better for Our Health and Well-Being

WebWilliam Shutkin: Welcome to the Sustainable City show, a new podcast where we discuss bold ideas and innovations for green, equitable and climate-friendly cities …

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The Organ-on-a-Chip Revolution Is Here The MIT Press Reader

WebThe Organ-on-a-Chip Revolution Is Here. The day when most new drugs will be developed and tested directly using human tissues is right around the corner. Jim …

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Can Virtual Reality Make Us Healthier

WebWhether that’s a health behavior or about empathy towards others or about how you can learn. My research focuses on how virtual experiences change real …

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The Doctor Is In, but Scared to See You The MIT Press Reader

WebThe Doctor Is In, but Scared to See You. Some health care providers, even those already vaccinated, have developed patient hesitancy and are reluctant to leave …

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The New Science of Optimism and Longevity The MIT Press Reader

WebThe results tell us that optimists tend to live on average 11 to 15 percent longer than pessimists and have an excellent chance of achieving “exceptional longevity” …

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A Complete History of Pandemics The MIT Press Reader

WebThere is little certainty regarding the total global death toll of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Perhaps the most commonly cited worldwide aggregate 20-40 …

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Running and the Science of Mental Toughness

WebOh yeah, how cute.”. To cope with the pain and discomfort, the runners used a variety of mental strategies, including breathing techniques and urging themselves on. …

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The Invisible Organ Shaping Our Lives: Milestones in Human …

WebAlessio Fasano is the W. Allan Walker Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard …

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New Chemistry and the Birth of Public Hygiene

WebThe Royal Navy repeated the exercise in 1796. As disinfection became entrenched as a public health practice, chemists emerged as the unquestioned experts …

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The Powerful Case for Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease

WebThe signature case of Alzheimer’s disease was a German woman named Auguste whose mental status began to deteriorate to the extent that her husband …

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To Fix the Social Sciences, Look to the “Dark Ages” of Medicine

WebLooking back to the state of medicine at the time of Semmelweis — that is, the prescientific “dark ages” of the 19th century — the analogies with 21st-century social …

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A Pathogen Too Far: How the 1918 Pandemic Revolutionized …

WebHaemophilus influenzae was also known as Pfeiffer’s bacillus, for Richard Pfeiffer, a researcher at the Robert Koch Institute, who had identified it as the cause of …

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Visualizing Data To Save Lives: A History of Early Public Health

WebBy: Murray Dick. When publicized far and wide enough, infographics, some experts argue, can save lives. The communicative value in visualizing data toward …

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What Bird Longevity Might Teach Us About Human Health

WebBirds must have exceptionally effective antioxidant defenses and exceptionally rapid repair mechanisms. In fact, some of the few studies that have been done trying to …

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The Evolutionary Power of Cities and Light

WebIn 1800, only two percent of the human population lived in cities. A century later, that portion grew to 15 percent. Then, sometime in 2007, a person was born in a …

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Sea Salt Is No Health Potion The MIT Press Reader

WebIn fact, that is rarely the case. Most sea salts — and table salt — are at least 98 percent sodium chloride, with other minerals present in such small amounts that they …

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The Tragic Downfall of ʿAṣfūriyyeh (The Lebanon Hospital for the …

WebAṣfūriyyeh (formally, the Lebanon Hospital for the Insane) was one of the first modern psychiatric hospitals in the Middle East. Founded by a Swiss Quaker missionary …

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The Identity Crisis of America’s Largest Anti-Hunger Program

WebWhen Walter Willett speaks, people listen. Among the world’s most cited nutrition researchers, Willett, who chaired the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard …

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The Extraordinary Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives

WebRhythm is much more than a component of music. Nevertheless, music is probably what first comes to mind when we hear the word rhythm: drumming, jazz, rock …

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