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The Critical Importance of Kindness
The Critical Importance of Kindness politicsoflanguage: Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity. … Contempt, they have found, is the number one factor that tears couples apart. People who are focused on criticizing their partners miss a whopping 50 percent of positive things their partners are doing and they see negativity…
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Disrupted: How Computerization Is Changing the Practice of Medicine In Surprising Ways | The Health Care Blog
Disrupted: How Computerization Is Changing the Practice of Medicine In Surprising Ways | The Health Care Blog … Medicine, our most intimately human profession, is being dehumanized by the entry of the computer into the exam room. While computers are preventing many medical errors, they are also causing new kinds of mistakes, some of them whoppers.…
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skunkbear: As Virginia Hughes noted in a recent piece for National Geographic’s Phenomena blog, the most common depiction of a synapse (that communicating junction between two neurons) is pretty simple: Signal molecules leave one neuron from that bulby thing, float across a gap, and are picked up by receptors on the other neuron. In this…