Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2692
July 31, 2010
How Stress Kills
Jonah Lehrer classifies types of stress:
The recurring theme in the self-reports of people like Marjorie isn'tthe sheer amount of stress — it's the total absence of control.Researchers call it the "demand-control" model of stress, in which thedamage caused by chronic stress depends not just on the demands of thejob but on the extent to which we can control our response to thosedemands. "The man or woman with all the emails, the city lawyer whoworks through the night has high demands," Marmot...
I Wanna Spock You Like An Animal
A reader writes:
This is not really a Mental Health Break because it's actually a bit disturbing, but the Man from UNCLE video you posted made me think of this.
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Would Anyone Miss Mosquitoes?
Janet Fang poses the question to various researchers. She finds that their removal would be unlikely to significantly disrupt the ecosystem:
In many cases, scientists acknowledge that the ecological scar left bya missing mosquito would heal quickly as the niche was filled by otherorganisms. Life would continue as before — or even better. When itcomes to the major disease vectors, "it's difficult to see what thedownside would be to removal, except for collateral damage", saysinsect ecologist...
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Hooked On The Net
Greg Beato rehashes the internet addiction debate:
On a pound-for-pound basis, the average World
Warcraft junkie undoubtedly represents a much less destructivesocial force than the average meth head. But it's not extremeanecdotes that make the specter of Internet addiction sothreatening; it's the fact that Internet overuse has the potentialto scale in a way that few other addictions do. Even if Steve Jobsdesigned a really cool-looking syringe and started distributingfree heroin on street...
How To Be Alone
There's a difference between loneliness and solitude:
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Lolcats: Gateway Drug
What Shirky says, I think — or at least what I think — is that the MySpace and lolcats sphere of the internet is useful not necessarily (or not only) in itself but as a gateway drugto a culture of consuming and producing content. Content that, likecontent through all of human history, will be 99% dreck and 1% genius,the only difference between now and the 19th (or 9th) century beingthat most of the dreck (though certainly not all...
The View From Your Window Contest
You have until noon on Tuesday to
guess it. Country first, then city and/or state. If no one guesses the
exact location, proximity counts. Be sure to email entries to
VFYWcontest@theatlantic.com. Winner gets a free The
View From Your Window book, courtesy of Blurb. Have at it.
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The Limits Of Locking People Up
The Economist revisits the incarceration debate:
Using more recent data, Bert Useem of Purdue University and AnnePiehl of Rutgers University estimate that a 10% increase in the numberof people behind bars would reduce crime by only 0.5%. In the statesthat currently lock up the most people, imprisoning more would actuallyincrease crime, they believe. Some inmates emerge from prison as moreaccomplished criminals. And raising the incarceration rate meanslocking up people who are, on average...
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