Opinion | ‘Believe in Your Data and Question Conventional Wisdom’: What We Heard This Week
“Two lessons: believe in your data and question conventional wisdom.” — Stephen Hauser, MD, of the University of California San Francisco, discussing his book, The Face Laughs While the Brain Cries. “You don’t always think a chip can be dangerous.” — Scott Krakower, DO, of Northwell Health in New York, about the ‘One Chip Challenge’ […]
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 […]