Posts by Marcellino Nehme
Global deaths: This is how COVID-19 compares to other diseases
Nearly 150,000 people die each day around the world, according to 2017 data. Cardiovascular diseases are the biggest killer globally. This is how COVID-19 compares to other diseases for number of deaths. Click here to read the full article.
Read MoreHedonic Treadmill
The hedonic treadmill is a metaphor for the idea that an individual’s level of happiness tends to return to where it started—a “set point”—regardless of good fortune or negative life events the person experiences. The process by which positive or negative effects on happiness fade over time is called hedonic adaptation Starting a new romance,…
Read MoreThe Coronavirus Vaccine Is on Track to Be the Fastest Ever Developed
In early April, as COVID-19 cases and deaths in New York City were rising to horrifying numbers, Tal Zaks, the chief medical officer of Moderna, a Cambridge-based biotech company, was concerned about time. In just three months, his company had created an experimental vaccine to inoculate against COVID-19, and begun to inject the vaccine into…
Read MoreWhat Near-Death Experiences Reveal about the Brain
Near-death experiences are triggered during singular life-threatening episodes when the body is injured by a heart attack, shock, or blunt trauma such as an explosion or a fall. These events share broad commonalities: becoming pain-free, seeing a bright light at the end of a tunnel, or detaching from one’s body and floating above it and…
Read MoreFortune 500 CEO survey: How are America’s biggest companies dealing with the coronavirus pandemic?
CEOs of the Fortune 500, surveyed in the last two weeks of April, believe it will be years before the effects of COVID-19 are purged from the U.S. economy. Only 27% expect their workers to fully return to their usual workplaces this year. A majority believe it will be the first quarter of 2022 before overall economic…
Read MoreThe Whole Picture of Self-Care
We tend to have a narrow definition of self-care. We think self-care means engaging in healthy habits: getting enough sleep, eating nutrient-rich foods, meditating, and moving our bodies. Or we see self-care as synonymous with pampering and little luxuries: massages, manicures, long baths, shopping trips, soft pajamas, mid-day naps, fancy face masks and creams, beautiful…
Read MoreThis Chart Explains Why Reopening the Economy Is Still So Risky
A graphic representation, below, created by Joshua Weitz, a professor at Georgia Tech studying theoretical ecology and quantitative biology, demonstrates this well. One flaw with this graph is that it assumes that the cases are equally distributed nationally. We can quickly see that for the number of known cases in the United States (y-axis), even…
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