Click here for Nicholas Bakalar's report on a Danish study in the Annals of Internal Medicine that found no gains and some downsides from routine screenings.
End of Life Issues and Updates
Click here for Paula Span's article from the New York Times.
How Talk Can Help Patients Feel Better
Click here for Danielle Ofri's article about why doctors need to spend time talking with their patients.
How App Stores May Help Censorship
Click here for the article by Farhad Manjoo.
What Doesn't Get Discussed at Davos
Click here for Peter S. Goodman's article about what is being ignored despite Populist revolts.
Medical Marijuana
Click here for answers to frequently asked questions about the use of medical marijuana, including the who, how, why and where.
Can We Conquer Negative Thinking?
Yes, suggests Lesley Alderman in the New York Times, suggests some ways learned by researchers. Click here to read the article.
In Prisons and Hospitals, Non-Profits Have Better Outcomes than For-Profits
There was Fake News in 1964 that a Teacher Used to Teach Critical Thinking
Click here for the article by Jim Dwyer in the New York Times.
New Research on "Superagers"
Click here to read about how older people with brains like younger people do it.
Path-Breaking Story about Changing the Last Days of Life
Click here to read the article. Click here to view B.J. Miller's TED talk on "What Really Matters at the End of Life."
How Many Children Grow Up to Earn More than their Parents?
Click here to read David Leonhardt's article.
Automation Kills More Jobs than Trade with China
Click here to read the article.
How Do TV Preferences Vary around the U.S?
Robotic Pets Provide Solace for Elderly
Click here to read the article from the New York Times. The cats purr, blink their eyes and appear to respond.
Social Isolation Can Harm Us. Some Ideas for Addressing it.
Click here for an article by Dhruv Khullar in the Upshot.
Using a New Type of Artificial Intelligence Google Transformed Google Translate
Click here for a fascinating and important article about it.
David Leonhardt's Review of "The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds" by Michael Lewis
Biographies of Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman whose work reveals how we are not as rational in our thinking as we think we are. Click here for the review from the New York Times.
John Micklethwait's review of Thomas L. Friedman's "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations"
Click here for the review.
Interesting Interview with Graham Moore, Author of "The Last Days of Night"
Click here to read the interview in the Columbia Magazine.