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So sad. A Eulogy for the Primary Care Physician meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/1…

The birth-rate crisis isn’t as bad as you’ve heard—It’s worse! The overly optimistic UN estimates have obscured how urgent fertility collapse really is. If the birth rate continues to drop around the world at its current pace, we're looking at a smaller, sadder, poorer future

Tour-de-force Weizhe Hong ! Major step forward in understanding inter-brain neural dynamics!

Yum! But did they have marrow spoons?

Here here! Derek Thompson "I believe we’ve built ourselves a world of greater professional ambition, more intensive parenting, and lavish entertainment abundance. But in making this world, we’ve lost a bit of each other. If summoning these magnificent technologies incurs the death of

The synchronized brains of the Trader Joe's tribe. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Not all mammalian brains were created the same. The granular prefrontal cortex, an area appearing the novo in primates is wired for mental representations and precise executive control of the rest of the brain. Very important ground-breaking work 👇 cell.com/cell/abstract/…

Important work from Agustin Ibañez and team. Massive four continent study documenting the sociopolitical contributions to accelerated brain aging. We find echos of these effects in nonhuman primates suggesting deep origins.

Watch this space! The Korn_Ferry Institute (KFI) and the Wharton Brain (WiN) are pioneering a new collaboration to integrate well-validated psychometric approaches with advanced neuroscience-informed methodologies to promote a deeper understanding of leadership dynamics in

Our hydrangeas are enjoying the sunshine this summer!

Incredible work Agustin Ibañez and team building the case for brain capital and including the crucial role of community in resilience to the exposome (biological, environmental, social, economic, and political stressors)! This is a must-read!

Excited to join our long-term partner AIIR Consulting for a keynote at their annual summit! Please do consider joining us in Philly!

It seems like everyone meditates now. But what if we meditated together--on our shared human experience? Dig in and find out.

Wow. Just wow. Humans show implicit bias towards their own tribe--this is well-known. But LLMs show bias for their own "tribe" too with potentially huge economic and societal impacts. Best case you have to pay for an LLM agent or be shut out of the economy pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

NYT David Brooks nails it, so I'm gifting his op-ed from this morning. Despair continues to rise in the West, particularly among young people and even more so among progressives. This is a crisis of culture--focusing on the individual over the group, money over meaning and

This tracks but is shocking nevertheless.

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If you care about kids and the future of society read this article. In short "social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok have hijacked evolved psychological mechanisms for social comparison and group belonging...The result has been a well-documented global rise in anxiety,

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