I Was Trapped In A Soul-Crushing Corporate Job For 1 Reason That Keeps Too Many Others Stuck
“I’ve learned that I can’t game the system, I don’t want to, and it’s not worth it,” the author writes. FreshSplash via Getty Images This story was supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The breaking point came in a one-on-one. My manager looked distressed. He told me the issues had been […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Third Open Heart Surgery Turned Into A Total ‘Disaster’
LOADINGERROR LOADING Arnold Schwarzenegger is sharing what he learned after a grueling recovery from open-heart surgery that almost killed him four years ago. While Schwarzenegger has been a fitness fan all his life, the 76-year-old bodybuilder-turned-actor has also had to deal with health issues across the years, including a botched 2019 procedure done before shooting […]
What does it take to thrive in cities, if you’re a bird? Identifying traits that help wildlife adapt to urban living can help cities bolster biodiversity through better urban planning
As cities gobble up natural spaces, some birds have learned to live alongside skyscrapers, traffic and noise — and large numbers of humans. A UCLA-led team of biologists wondered if those city-dwelling birds share common characteristics around the world that help them survive. In a paper published in Current Biology, they reveal the answer: Urban […]
Opinion | Perverse Economies: Who Is Worth Saving?
Back when I was a medical student I learned a lesson about who was expendable. I was doing research for the liver transplant team at UCLA, one of the largest organ-transplant centers in the U.S., and one of the surgeons gave me an assignment: can you track how sick the patients are before they come […]
Opinion | Receiving Feedback and Critique Is a Complicated Art
In the mid-16th century, surgical education was that of a true apprenticeship. The student learned through direct observership and imitation of a skilled, elder surgeon. It wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century that surgical education evolved into a formalized and structured program. William Osler, MD, CM, introduced the concepts of specialty clerkships and […]
Listening to the leaves: Adding bioinspired veins to foamed polymers
Many lessons learned in life are learned from trees. Stand firm. Good things take time. Bend, don’t break. But metaphors aside, our stately arboreal neighbors offer a wealth of scientific wisdom — and we have a lot to learn. Simply by existing, trees are nature’s first materials scientists. Like many plants, they have vascular systems, […]
‘The Art of Deliberate Listening’; Access Tied to Outcomes; No ‘A’ in Cancer
Lessons learned from the absence of sound and “the art of deliberate listening.” (Journal of Clinical Oncology) A study from France showed that new diagnoses of metastatic colorectal cancer during the initial surge of the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with heavier tumor burden compared with prepandemic diagnoses, suggesting delayed diagnosis. (JAMA Network Open). An HHS […]
Naomi Osaka Reflects On Her Mental Health Break: ‘You Can Never Please Everyone’
Naomi Osaka wrote an essay for Time in which she discussed the “key lessons” she has learned since saying publicly that she was prioritizing her mental health. The four-time Grand Slam champion wrote in the piece, which was published Thursday, that her journey took “an unexpected path” and that she learned a lot after openly discussing her mental […]