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Biophilic design has a long history and an even bigger future

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The spaces they created resembled university campuses in both form and function, set in landscaped grounds and openly flaunting a connection to nature and the firm’s apparent social awareness. It also confirms something we have learned about biophilic design; that natural forms can improve our wellbeing almost as much as actual nature.

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Scientist and Engineer Rosalind Picard Is Transforming Digital Health with Wearable AI

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And, in the course of doing that, it led me to a lot of different things we can measure in the human body, which led me not just to measurement of emotion but to its interactions with health.” “I did not want companies spying on people without their knowing…. But that didn’t happen.

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Planning to Take Maternity Leave While Self-Employed? Do These 6 Things First

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Look into government resources California, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington are among the states offering a form of paid family or maternity leave. When I was on leave, I could make affiliate sales without lifting a finger,” she explains.

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How Financial Wellness Programs Can Benefit Employees and Employers

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Employees are often grappling with a wide range of financial stresses, including recovering from a layoff, paying off high medical bills or credit card debt and grappling with student loans—but those stresses may not be known to their employers, Maston says. We’re really going after behavior change,” Mecham says.

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Never Broken: How Singer-Songwriter Jewel Became a Mental Health Advocate

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While some believe the journey of a soul is predetermined, she believes it’s malleable, and we can change its course through the power of our thoughts and actions. Though she could not have known it at the time, the song would ultimately change the course of her life and allow her to become a catalyst of change for others.

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The Power of Strong Friendships in Strengthening Well-Being

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Yes, those relationships are hard to form, hard to grow, hard to keep. Of course he did! I asked him: Does going to F3 workouts help in a measurable, definable, medical way? But the stakes are too high, and the benefits too deep, not to try. A supportive community At the same time, his mindset matters.

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Throwing open the window to a new world of work

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While at work in a Viennese Obstetric Clinic in the mid 1840s, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that mothers were far less likely to succumb to a potentially fatal infection called puerperal fever when the medical staff treating them washed their hands. And that should have been that.

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