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Big Data Probably Knows More About You Than Your Friends Do

Big Data Probably Knows More About You Than Your Friends Do

A representation of the digital lifestyle prevalent today that enables the collection of a wealth of data.

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Jennifer Miller
Jennifer E. Miller, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in NYU School of Medicine and President of the nonprofit Bioethics International. She is also the Creator of the Good Pharma Scorecard, an index that ranks new drugs and pharmaceutical companies on their ethics performance. She is also a member of The World Economic Forum and serves on NYU’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee and stem cell research oversight board. Prior to joining NYU’s faculty, Dr. Miller was based at Duke University and Harvard University and served on the CDC Task Force for Pediatric Emergency Mass Critical Care, the AMA Advanced Disaster Life Support Education Consortium, as a consultant to the UN Economic and Social Council, and on the PCORI-NIH Collaboratory. A prolific writer, Dr. Miller has authored over 40 publications, including for Nature Medicine, Health Affairs, and The Scientist. She was a Fox News pundit from 2009 to 2012 and remains a commentator on CBS news, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg News, Forbes, Dr. Oz and NPR.
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The rise of remote work is a win-win for people with disabilities and employers

Disability advocates see remote work as a silver lining of the pandemic, a win-win for adults with disabilities and the business world alike.

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Any corporate leader would jump at the opportunity to increase their talent pool of potential employees by 15 percent, with all these new hires belonging to an underrepresented minority. That’s especially true given tight labor markets and CEO desires to increase headcount. Yet, too few leaders realize that people with disabilities are the largest minority group in this country, numbering 50 million.

Some executives may dread the extra investments in accommodating people’s disabilities. Yet, providing full-time remote work could suffice, according to a new study by the Economic Innovation Group think tank. The authors found that the employment rate for people with disabilities did not simply reach the pre-pandemic level by mid-2022, but far surpassed it, to the highest rate in over a decade. “Remote work and a strong labor market are helping [individuals with disabilities] find work,” said Adam Ozemik, who led the research and is chief economist at the Economic Innovation Group.

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Gleb Tsipursky
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is an internationally recognized thought leader on a mission to protect leaders from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies. A best-selling author, he wrote Resilience: Adapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic and Pro Truth: A Practical Plan for Putting Truth Back Into Politics. His expertise comes from over 20 years of consulting, coaching, and speaking and training as the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, and over 15 years in academia as a behavioral economist and cognitive neuroscientist. He co-founded the Pro-Truth Pledge project.
Friday Five: The Therapeutic Value of Bonding with Fellow Sports Fans

In this week's Friday Five, attending sports events is linked to greater life satisfaction, AI can identify specific brain tumors in under 90 seconds, LSD - minus hallucinations - raises hopes for mental health, new research on the benefits of cold showers, and inspiring awe in your kids leads to behavior change.

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The Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend.

This episode includes an interview with Dr. Helen Keyes, Head of the School of Psychology and Sports Science at Anglia Ruskin University.

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Matt Fuchs

Matt Fuchs is the editor-in-chief of Leaps.org and Making Sense of Science. He is also a contributing reporter to the Washington Post and has written for the New York Times, Time Magazine, WIRED and the Washington Post Magazine, among other outlets. Follow him @fuchswriter.