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Walt Whitman’s Unearthed Health Manual, "Manly Health

WebThe essays are piece­meal dis­til­la­tions of “a huge range of top­ics” of gen­er­al inter­est to male read­ers of the time—in some respects, a 19th cen­tu­ry equiv­a­lent of Men’s Health

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The Therapeutic Benefits of Ambient Music: Science Shows

WebSev­er­al recent stud­ies, for exam­ple, have linked drum­ming, the old­est and most uni­ver­sal form of music-mak­ing, to reduced anx­i­ety, pain relief, improved mood, and improved …

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Vintage Public Health Posters That Helped People Take Smart …

WebAs she not­ed in a lec­ture on the his­to­ry of the poster as Pub­lic Ser­vice Announce­ment the fol­low­ing month, “mass pub­lic health action… is how we stopped tuber­cu­lo­sis, polio, and …

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Sleep or Die: Neuroscientist Matthew Walker Explains How Sleep …

WebLack of sleep, how­ev­er, is “increas­ing our risk of can­cer, heart attack and Alzheimer’s,” notes Cooke. Indeed, “after just one night of only four or five hours’ sleep,” Walk­er tells …

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Professional Ethics: A Free Online Course Open Culture

WebFrom J ohn Sanders, Pro­fes­sor of Phi­los­o­phy at the Rochester Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy, comes a 10-lec­ture course on Pro­fes­sion­al Ethics, which exam­ines eth­i­cal issues that …

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Stephen Fry on Coping with Depression: It’s Raining, But the Sun …

WebIt’s rain­ing and the sun will nev­er come out.’”. Since mak­ing his diag­no­sis pub­lic, Fry has always sound­ed a note of hope. But his sto­ry, which he tells in more per­son­al detail in …

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The Cramps Play a Mental Health Hospital in Napa, California in …

WebThe date was June 13, 1978, a time when Napa was more known for the hos­pi­tal than for its bur­geon­ing wine indus­try. Lead vocal­ist Lux Inte­ri­or made this intro­duc­tion after the first …

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How a Dutch "Dementia Village" Improves Quality of Life with

WebPeople suffering from dementia lose their ability to take an active part in conversations, everyday activities, and their own physical upkeep. They are prone to sudden mood …

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How to Live to Be 100 and Beyond: 9 Diet & Lifestyle Tips

WebA lit­tle pub­lic ser­vice announce­ment… Dan Buet­tner, a writer for Nation­al Geo­graph­ic, has stud­ied the world’s longest-lived peo­ples.Most of his find­ings are summed up in his book, …

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You’re Only As Old As You Feel: Harvard Psychologist Ellen Langer …

WebWhat hap­pens to the one, she the­o­rized, will nec­es­sar­i­ly affect the oth­er. In a 1981 exper­i­ment, which she called the “coun­ter­clock­wise study,” she and her research team …

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F.D.R. Proposes a Second Bill of Rights: A Decent Job, Education

WebRoo­sevelt did not take the val­ue of equal­i­ty for grant­ed or mere­ly invoke it as a slo­gan. Though its role in his ear­ly poli­cies was sore­ly lack­ing, he showed in 1941 that he could …

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Doctors in Brussels Can Now Prescribe Museum Visits as …

WebIndeed, a trip to the muse­um is just what the doc­tor ordered — in Brus­sels, lit­er­al­ly. “Start­ing this month, doc­tors at the Brug­mann Hos­pi­tal, one of Brus­sels’ largest health cen­ters, …

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The Artistry of the Mentally Ill: The 1922 Book That Published the

WebWhen the Nazis held their “Degen­er­ate Art” exhi­bi­tions in 1937, a por­tion of Prinzhorn’s col­lec­tion of “over 5000 paint­ings, draw­ings, and carv­ings” was includ­ed next to the …

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Marilyn Monroe Recounts Her Harrowing Experience in a …

WebMon­roe and Miller announced their divorce on Novem­ber 11, 1960. A few months lat­er, the emo­tion­al­ly exhaust­ed movie star was com­mit­ted by her psy­cho­an­a­lyst Dr. Mar­i­anne …

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Dying in the Name of Vaccine Freedom Open Culture

WebIn the video above, Alexan­der Stock­ton, a pro­duc­er on the Opin­ion Video team, explores two of the main rea­sons the num­ber of Covid cas­es is soar­ing once again in the Unit­ed …

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How The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Invented Psychological Horror …

WebThe tech­niques employed to that end have also con­vinced cer­tain his­to­ri­ans of the medi­um to call the pic­ture “the first exam­ple in cin­e­ma of Ger­man Expres­sion­ism, a visu­al style in …

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The Evolutionary History of Fat: Biologists Explain Why It's …

WebThe Fat Accep­tance move­ment may seem like a 21st cen­tu­ry phe­nom­e­non, ris­ing to pub­lic con­scious­ness with the suc­cess of high-pro­file writ­ers, actors, film­mak­ers, and activists …

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10 Longevity Tips from Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Japan's 105-Year …

WebOlive oil is great for the arter­ies and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cook­ies, or noth­ing when I am too busy to eat. I nev­er get hun­gry because I focus on my work. …

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The Cramps Legendary Concert at a California Psychiatric Hospital …

WebThe doc also explores how the per­for­mances could have made such an impact, when they were “seen by almost no one,” as Phil Bar­ber writes at Vice: “about a dozen devot­ed …

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