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American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
The AASM invites qualified members to nominate themselves or encourage others to be considered for seats that will open in 2027 on the AASM Board of Directors or Leadership Development Committee. To qualify for service, nominees must be a...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Picture this: 71 adults signed up for a study comparing brief to longer mindfulness practice. Many had never meditated, while others had dabbled years before. Participants were divided at random into three groups: One group got 20 minutes...
The Conversation: Health Health
A return to the office can mean very different things to different workers, which is why this debate often produces conflicting answers.
Mindful Mind
Jay Pitter, author of the book Black Public Joy, offers placemaking concepts and practices for cultivating a healthy sense of connection with ourselves and the outside world.
Mindful Mind
In this guided meditation, Caverly Morgan invites us to move beyond “positive thinking” in difficult moments and instead tap into a deep well of unconditional love for ourselves
The Conversation: Health Health
Getting vaccinated is the best way to reduce your risk of severe illness and complications from the flu.
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
The State of Sleep Medicine Report is compiled quarterly by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine as a members only resource. The report contains news highlights and announcements to help members identify current trends and innovations in...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
As an undergrad student decades ago, I attended a dorm presentation describing the importance of giving and receiving sexual consent. The workshop leaders explained that if your partner said “no” or “stop” but you proceeded to have sex...
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
Season 8 | Episode 18 In this episode of Talking Sleep, host Dr. Seema Khosla welcomes Dr. Carrie Mahoney, a neuroscientist and faculty member in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
In a genre built around sweetness and ease, one “cozy” video game did something far greater: It put me back together after I lost Mary. Mary was not only my then-boyfriend’s mother, but she also became an important maternal figure when my...
American Academy of Sleep Medicine Sleep
Although the 2027 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) Professional Manual is not yet available, sleep medicine professionals can start preparing now for upcoming changes to unattended sleep testing codes. The September 2026 issue of CPT...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Take a moment to appreciate the friends who know you, support you, and make your life richer with their presence, with author Alex Elle.
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Our monthly Happiness Calendar is a day-by-day guide to well-being. This month, we hope it helps you have better conversations. To open the clickable calendar, click on the image below. (Please note: If you are having trouble clicking on...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
Quick Summary When a program gets boring, reaching for a new one feels like a fresh start. It’s also why you feel like you keep starting over and never getting anywhere. New is fun, and the fun matters; it’s a big part of what keeps people...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Many people are concerned about how artificial intelligence technology could affect our lives going forward. Will it create new jobs or take away people’s livelihoods? Enhance children’s learning or hamper it? Expand people’s views or...
Greater Good (UC Berkeley) Mind
Though Djurdja Padejski was raised in communist Yugoslavia, her life there felt stable and uneventful for a long time. In the 1980s, under Yugoslavia’s “soft” one-party government, Padejski and her friends read Western literature, watched...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
Quick Summary The drill sergeant version of accountability (“why did you skip that? do you even want this?”) questions YOU instead of helping you. If being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now. Real accountability is built...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
Quick Summary There is no “perfect” workout plan. Nobody can know what perfect looks like in advance. If you’re too afraid to start and make a mistake, it will keep you stuck at the starting line. Build an action plan instead: 1 or 2 small...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
Expecting yourself to stick to the same fitness routine, no matter what, is why it fails. Because the only predictable thing about life is that it’s unpredictable. A kid gets sick. Sleep falls apart. The to-do list explodes. You can’t know...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
You lose strength much more slowly than you probably think. A few days off changes basically nothing, measurable losses take roughly two to four weeks depending on the quality (muscle endurance fades first, maximal strength last). Muscle...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
Soreness is not an indicator of a good workout, and not being sore doesn’t mean your workout didn’t count. That day-after ache (DOMS) mostly tells you that you did something new, not something effective. Progress is more reliably measured...
Precision Nutrition Nutrition
The confident beliefs five PN Master Coaches had to unlearn—and what great coaching really takes.
Nerd Fitness Fitness
If you can’t get yourself to start a workout after a long day, the problem might not be the workout itself. It’s the gear shift from “couch” to “go.” A bridge task is a small, neutral action (not fun, not hard, just…meh) that you put in...
Nerd Fitness Fitness
No, it isn’t too late. People in their 70s, 80s, and 90s get meaningfully stronger when they start strength training, and beginners tend to see the biggest response to training. You also need far less than you’d guess: 30 to 60 minutes of...
