What really attracts people to tech startups just may be the chance to experience the exhilaration of explosive growth – and, of course, the dopamine surges that accompany it. Read More...
If you haven’t heard, “sitting is the new smoking” in terms of health status. And, unfortunately, you can’t just get up and exercise for an hour and then go sit all day. That brief spurt of exercise doesn’t change the fact that we sit for 9+ hours a day. If you think about...
Posted to
News
by
Enabling Healthy Decisions
on
Thu, Jun 6 2013
Filed under:
Filed under: Healthcare, health, Social Media, exercise, Books / Articles, Business Tools, BodyMedia, Fitbit, Infographic, QuantifiedSelf, Sitting Is New Smoking
When we ask ‘is pharma afraid of social media?‘, we may not be posing the question we think we are. For once, we’ll disregard the usual preliminary objections concerning the identity of the companies we assume we are referring to, and the unhelpfully homogeneous bulk descriptor which...
When it comes to public health, the conventional wisdom about how best to spread information on social networks might need to be turned on its head, according to a recently published paper by Professor Damon Centola of the MIT Sloan School of Management, entitled “Social Media and the Science of...