Booster shots: The accidental advantages of vaccines - health - 20 August 2013 Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3 Some vaccines seem to provide us with a host of extra benefits. Editorial: "Silence isn't golden when it comes to vaccines" HAVE a look at your left shoulder: if you are past your mid-twenties it almost certainly bears a circular scar. The Bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccination was given to protect you from tuberculosis. There is growing evidence that vaccines have a wider-ranging influence on the immune system than we thought. Even in the West, where it is far less common for children to die from infectious illnesses, there are still surprising benefits: some vaccines seem to reduce our susceptibility to eczema and asthma. The World Health Organization, which is the main provider of vaccines in developing countries, has asked a group of vaccine experts to get to the bottom of it. In the 1940s and 50s, trials in the US and UK suggested that BCG-vaccinated children had a 25 per cent lower death rate from diseases other than TB. More from the web
How to Travel: 21 Contrarian Rules (Photo credit: Moyan Brenn) This is a tactical post on travel from Ryan Holiday, who’s written on this blog before about the pragmatism of Stoicism and lessons learned as Director of Marketing for American Apparel. To his 21 rules, I’ve added a few of my own tricks. Please share your own rules and tips in the comments! Enter Ryan Holiday Why are you traveling? Because, you know, you don’t magically get a prize at the end of your life for having been to the most places. Seneca, the stoic philosopher, has a great line about the restlessness of those who seem compelled to travel. “They make one journey after another and change spectacle for spectacle. It’s hard for me see anything to envy in most people who travel. Is that why you’re packing up your things and hitting the road? Not that I don’t travel myself–I did my fair share this year alone. But are you, as Emerson once put it, “bringing ruins to the ruins?” So what I think about when I travel is that “why.” My 21 Travel Rules and Criteria 1.
10 conseils pour ne pas stresser à la rentrée | Flavia Mazelin Salvi Flavia Mazelin Salvi est journaliste, et Patricia Salmon Tirard est rédactrice en chef adjointe Psychologie Magazine. Stress. Sans doute le mot le plus utilisé et le symptôme le plus répandu en ce début de XXIe siècle en Occident. Qui ignore encore qu'il vient du latin stringere (serrer, étreindre) et qu'il est une réaction de notre corps pour s'adapter à une situation nouvelle, positive ou négative ? (Lire les 10 conseils plus bas dans ce billet) Stress au travail, stress en famille, stress dans les transports et même stress en solo, quand, tout seul face à son miroir, on se dit qu'on n'est pas à la hauteur et qu'on n'y arrivera pas. Bien comprendre pour mieux combattre. (1)- Disponible sur iPhone et Android, 2,69 €. 1 / Repérez vos stresseurs Selon la spécialiste en communication Lilian Glass, certaines personnalités "toxiques" ont le pouvoir de faire ressortir le pire chez l'autre et de le stresser. 2 / Expirez le stress Nous respirons trop vite, ce qui favorise le stress et l'anxiété.
75 vuotta kestänyt tutkimus selvitti onnellisuuden avaimet: Muista aina nämä 5 sääntöä Harvardin yliopiston tutkijat ovat saaneet päätökseen uskomattoman 75 vuotta kestäneen tutkimuksen siitä, mikä todella tekee ihmisen onnelliseksi. Tutkimuksessa on seurattu tavallisten ihmisten elämää lapsuudesta vanhoille päiville, tarkastellen kuinka he muuttuvat kokemuksien myötä oppien uutta vuosien varrella. Tutkijat perehtyivät erityisesti siihen, kuinka koehenkilöiden arvot muuttuivat ajan kuluessa ja mitkä asiat tuottivat elämässä eniten tyydytystä. Harvard Grant Study -nimeä kantanut tutkimus on nyt koonnut viisi tärkeintä tekijää, jotka ovat merkittävimmät onnellisuuden rakentajat. 1. - Toinen on rakkaus ja toinen on keino oppia elämään elämää, jossa rakkautta ei karkoteta pois. Mies kuvailee myös onnellisuuden olevan vaunut ja rakkauden hevonen, joka vaunuja vetää. 2. 3. 4. 5. Lähde: Huffington Post
8 Surprising New Instagram Statistics to Get the Most out of the Picture Social Network 2.3K Flares Filament.io 2.3K Flares × While just a little over turning 3 years old, Instagram has made huge strides in social media. With over 150 million users on the platform, 16 billion photos shared, and 1 billion likes happening each day, the photo-sharing and editing platform is one of the most engaging channels on social media. Instagram has some pretty different functionalities in comparison to other social media sites and is fundamentally based on being able to simply upload and share beautiful images instantly. Except, looking at the other capabilities, Instagram is still a platform to share things and identifying what is working and what isn’t helps to determine what a specific audience craves. As a marketer, I’m completely intertwined in social media as it represents a pretty big channel and never ceases to change everyday. 1. 55 Million photos on average are uploaded each day, while the adoption rate of video is barely scratching the surface. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Your Thoughts Can Release Abilities beyond Normal Limits There seems to be a simple way to instantly increase a person’s level of general knowledge. Psychologists Ulrich Weger and Stephen Loughnan recently asked two groups of people to answer questions. People in one group were told that before each question, the answer would be briefly flashed on their screens — too quickly to consciously perceive, but slow enough for their unconscious to take it in. The other group was told that the flashes simply signaled the next question. In fact, for both groups, a random string of letters, not the answers, was flashed. But, remarkably, the people who thought the answers were flashed did better on the test. Our cognitive and physical abilities are in general limited, but our conceptions of the nature and extent of those limits may need revising. Can our thoughts improve our vision? To rule out the possible effect of motivation, the researchers brought another group of people into the cockpit and asked them to read a brief essay on motivation.
Jason Pinter: You Should Date an Illiterate Guy Inspired by Charles Warnke's "You Should Date an Illiterate Girl" Date a guy who doesn't read. You'll find him in a bar, already on his third or fourth smoky glass of amber, staring at you through glassy eyes that say he was hoping someone like you would come along and that you're up for fun tonight. He's cute so you let him buy you a drink, maybe a shot or two, and let him tell you about his job, how much money he makes, and how attracted he is to you. You tell him a little about yourself, and take his nods and smiles to mean he's soaking it all in, understands you just enough to feel a connection. Feel yourself falling for him because he's not bad-looking, because he has a job and seems self-sufficient, and tells you how great it is that you read a book a week, if not more. He doesn't call you but instead sends a text message. On the third date he still can't remember what you do, but you chalk that up to him being a guy.
Patron, tu me rends malade | Stéphanie Grammond | Stéphanie Grammond Une associée qui prenait un plaisir sadique à demander à son employé de pondre un rapport urgent le vendredi à 16h30 - au diable la fin de semaine en famille - pour rejeter toutes ses recommandations dès le lundi matin. Un vieux de la vieille qui ne se gênait pas pour lancer des livres ou des crayons à la figure de ses subalternes. Un gestionnaire qui pouvait louanger son employé un jour, puis le dénigrer le lendemain devant la haute direction. De quoi vous rendre fou! Le problème de la santé mentale en milieu de travail est loin d'être bénin, a confirmé la semaine dernière la plus vaste étude jamais réalisée au Canada sur cet enjeu. Les coûts des problèmes psychologiques sont énormes: jusqu'à 50 milliards par an, selon la Commission de la santé mentale du Canada. «De 35 à 40 % des réclamations d'assurance invalidité découlent de problèmes de santé mentale», avance Virginie Gosselin, de la compagnie d'assurances Standard Life qui a parrainé l'étude. La santé mentale au boulot:
10 Simple Things You Can Do Today That Will Make You Happier, Backed By Science Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. It's also no surprise that it's the Nr.1 value for Buffer's culture, if you see our slidedeck about it. So naturally we are obsessed with it. I would love to be happier, as I'm sure most people would, so I thought it would be interesting to find some ways to become a happier person that are actually backed up by science. Here are ten of the best ones I found. 1. You might have seen some talk recently about the scientific 7 minute workout mentioned in The New York Times. Exercise has such a profound effect on our happiness and well-being that it's actually been proven to be an effective strategy for overcoming depression. The groups were then tested six months later to assess their relapse rate. You don't have to be depressed to gain benefit from exercise, though. 2. In NutureShock, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman explain how sleep affects our positivity: 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
The Selfie Syndrome Infographic: The Selfie Syndrome – How Social Media Is Making Us Narcissistic Website BestComputerScienceSchools.net has recently published an infographic titled “Selfie Syndrome – How Social Media is Making Us Narcissistic”. This infographic outlines the ways in which our current social media culture and habits indicate a narcissistic pattern where everything you do has a self-fulfilling purpose. View the infographic below: First decrease in US childhood obesity - health - 09 August 2013 The great wave of obesity in US children may have crested. Children from low-income homes – who tend to be fatter than their counterparts from wealthier families – have become slightly, but significantly, leaner in recent years, a new government study reports. Epidemiologist Ashleigh May at the US Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, and her colleagues used data from the Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System, in which medical workers recorded the height and weight of about 11.6 million preschool children from 43 US states and territories who were enrolled in government nutrition-assistance programmes between 2008 and 2011. The researchers then adjusted the data to account for differences due to race, age and sex. In 18 states and one territory, the proportion of children classified as obese declined significantly during the four years, they found. Tide turning The researchers cannot be certain about what is driving obesity rates downward. More From New Scientist