Mobility? Who’s got time for that? You want to get big, get fit, get fast, get shredded, and get back to your life. “If you run a race horse around and put it away wet, the horse gets pneumonia and dies. But I’m a human being! I’m not a horse. I’m not weak,” says mobility […]
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Expert warns against 'hack' of using your hair to floss your teeth
The ‘hack’ we’re about to detail will either absolutely horrify you… or you will have been doing it for ages. People on TikTok are recommending that when you have food stuck in your teeth and don’t have any floss to hand, you should just yank out a strand of your hair and use that to […]
Expert Advice on How to Apologize (Even if You're Just Faking It)
No matter how hard we try to be fair, decent people, we all have to apologize to someone from time to time. Sometimes these apologies are sincere and you genuinely feel remorse for something you said or did. Other times, well, you go through the motions apologizing for something because you feel obligated to do […]
Parents’ pandemic-induced stress can do long-term harm to children, says expert
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has accentuated long-standing challenges many families face, has put additional stress on parents that could harm the development of their children, according to a new brief from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Preexisting stressors such as housing and food insecurity, marital discord and dysfunctional parenting are magnified during a […]
Expert compares 1918 flu, COVID-19
Olga Jonas, senior fellow at the Harvard Global Health Institute, is an expert in managing the risks of pandemics. During her 33-year stint as an economist at the World Bank, one of her responsibilities was to coordinate the bank’s contribution to the global efforts in 2006‒12 to reduce the avian and pandemic influenza threats. In […]
‘Overjoyed’: Leading health expert on New Zealand’s coronavirus shutdown, the weeks ahead
Overjoyed. That’s not a word epidemiologists normally use, but that’s how I felt after hearing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s announcement about New Zealand’s COVID-19 shutdown of everything except essential services for at least four weeks from midnight on Wednesday. More than anything, I just felt a huge sense of relief. That New Zealand would have […]
A Coronavirus Expert Gave Joe Rogan a Simple Overview of How to Stay Safe
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, more and more misinformation is circulating around what people should and shouldn’t be doing to stay safe and healthy and stop the spread of the virus. In an attempt to bust some of these myths, “medical detective” Michael Osterholm. M.D., Ph.D., recently appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience to talk […]