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    Why We Get Mad -- And Why It's Healthy

    Why We Get Mad -- And Why It's Healthy

    Anger researcher Ryan Martin draws from a career studying what makes people mad to explain some of the cognitive processes behind anger -- and why a healthy dose of it can actually be useful. "Your anger exists in you ... because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, an evolutionary advantage," he says. "[It's] a powerful and healthy force in your life."

    Subjects:
    Psychology
    Keywords:
    Mental health Anger
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    How We Can Improve Maternal Healthcare -- Before, During And After Pregnancy

    How We Can Improve Maternal Healthcare -- Before, During And After Pregnancy

    Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal mortality and shares ways for hospitals and doctors to make pregnancy safer for women before, during and after childbirth.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Management of Health Care Services
    Keywords:
    Maternal health services
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    How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health

    How Climate Change Affects Your Mental Health

    "For all that's ever been said about climate change, we haven't heard nearly enough about the psychological impacts of living in a warming world," says science writer Britt Wray. In this quick talk, she explores how climate change is threatening our well-being -- mental, social and spiritual -- and offers a starting point for what we can do about it.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Environmental Sciences
    Keywords:
    Climatic changes -- Social aspects Mental health
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    Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions

    Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions

    Why do we make poor decisions that we know are bad for our health? In this frank, funny talk, behavioral economist and health policy expert David Asch explains why our behavior is often irrational -- in highly predictable ways -- and shows how we can harness this irrationality to make better decisions and improve our health care system overall.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Health behavior Decision (Psychology)
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    How The Gut Microbes You're Born with Affect Your Lifelong Health

    How The Gut Microbes You're Born with Affect Your Lifelong Health

    Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood -- and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Biology
    Keywords:
    Microorganisms Medical genetics
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    What Investigating Neural Pathways Can Reveal about Mental Health

    What Investigating Neural Pathways Can Reveal about Mental Health

    Neuroscientist Kay M. Tye investigates how your brain gives rise to complex emotional states like depression, anxiety or loneliness. From the cutting edge of science, she shares her latest findings -- including the development of a tool that uses light to activate specific neurons and create dramatic behavioral changes in mice. Learn how these discoveries could change the way you think about your mind -- and possibly uncover effective treatments for mental disorders.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences
    Keywords:
    Mental illness -- Physiological aspects
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    How To Support Witnesses of Harassment And Build Healthier Workplaces

    How To Support Witnesses of Harassment And Build Healthier Workplaces

    What makes you speak up -- or not -- when you see something you know is wrong? Memory scientist Julia Shaw explains the psychology of those who witness workplace discrimination and harassment -- and shares actionable steps companies can take to support and amplify their voices.

    Subjects:
    Sociology, Psychology, and Social Sciences
    Keywords:
    Harassment
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    How Tech Companies Can Help Combat The Pandemic And Reshape Public Health

    How Tech Companies Can Help Combat The Pandemic And Reshape Public Health

    Karen DeSalvo, the chief health officer at Google, explains the partnership between big tech and public health in slowing the spread of COVID-19 -- and discusses a new contact tracing technology recently rolled out by Google and Apple that aims to ease the burden on health workers and provide scientists critical time to create a vaccine.

    Subjects:
    Public Health and Health Technology and Informatics
    Keywords:
    Contact tracing (Epidemiology) COVID-19 (Disease) -- Prevention
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    Want To Grow Healthy Food? Start with Your Lawn

    Want To Grow Healthy Food? Start with Your Lawn

    The fruits and vegetables we buy from the grocery story have been bred to grow bigger and faster — but at the cost of flavor and nutrition, says John C. Trimble, co-founder of Foodscaping Utah. Instead of wasting precious water to maintain the grass in our yards, he suggests we "foodscape" them instead. Not only will our produce taste better, but they'll be grown as locally as possible.

    Subjects:
    Food Science
    Keywords:
    Vegetable gardening Horticulture
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    How Synthetic Biology Can Improve Our Health, Food And Materials

    How Synthetic Biology Can Improve Our Health, Food And Materials

    What if we could use biology to restore our balance with nature without giving up modern creature comforts? Advocating for a new kind of environmentalism, scientist and entrepreneur Emily Leproust rethinks modern sustainability at the molecular level, using synthetic biology to create green alternatives. From lab-developed insulin and disease-resistant bananas to airplanes made of super-strong spider silk, she explains how reading and writing DNA can lead to groundbreaking innovations in health, food and materials.

    Subjects:
    Biology
    Keywords:
    Biotechnology Bioengineering
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