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...latest science suggests that yes, we can. Studies of all kinds of human frailties are revealing how to help people change - not only through mandates or financial incentives but also via subtler nudges that preserve our freedom to make choices while encouraging us to make better ones, from automatic-enrollment 401(k) plans that require us to opt out if we don't want to save for retirement to smart meters that warn us about how much energy we're using. These nudges can trigger huge changes; in a 2001 study, only 36% of women joined a 401(k) plan...
...build our tolerance for pain and hassle. He urges us to snap out of denial, to accept that we're in for some prolonged discomfort but not to wallow in it, to focus on our values. That happens to sound a lot like "acceptance and commitment therapy," the latest advance in behavioral psychology. Instead of assisting smokers to ignore cravings and chronic-pain sufferers to think about other things - the old denial approach - acceptance therapy pushes patients to acknowledge negative thoughts and then overcome them by focusing on values. Even a small amount of this approach seems to help smokers...
...course of its existence,” King says. “I feel like we’re part of the jazz canon, because we are improvisers first and foremost.”But jazz isn’t the defining element of The Bad Plus, whose latest album features both original tracks and a number of covers, including renditions of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” and Igor Stravinsky’s “Variations d’Apollon,” a 20th century classical piano piece...
Pistachios are the latest nut to disappear from Harvard dining hall menus. The move comes in response to a warning issued earlier this week by the Food and Drug Administration about salmonella contamination of products from Setton Pistachios of Terra Bella, Inc. Just two months ago, Harvard University Dining Services eliminated all peanuts from their dishes in the wake of a salmonella outbreak attributed to several peanut products. The FDA and the California Department of Public Health is still investigating the incident, and Setton has voluntarily recalled around one million pounds of pistachios—both shelled and unshelled?...
...latest dictum is that ‘skills are obsolete,’’ Mitchnick writes in an email. ‘There is great work being made, important, current, contemporary, thought-provoking work that doesn’t depend on knowledge of or experience with materials. It doesn’t replace painting, but it fits more easily into academia...