Author: healthylife7

These days, Buddhism is a familiar presence in the American conversation about wellbeing, invoked in wellness culture, clinical research, and popular media as a path toward calmer minds and healthier bodies. But as a scholar who has long focused on “Buddhist medicine” in Asia, I wanted to hear how American Buddhists speak on the subject…

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Against a backdrop of studies that suggest artificial intelligence (AI) is rewiring our brains, making usstupider, or easing our mental load to the detriment of critical thinking, a new study is set to evaluate whether certain contextual applications can actually make us better at thinking. That was certainly the stance of one panel at Davos…

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Doctor Maximo Torero is Chief Economist at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), responsible for the data, statistics and economic analysis behind FAO’s work on hunger, poverty and food systems. This episode of Screw It was recorded as FAO prepared to launch this year’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, known as SOFI,…

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