Will AI Make Our Minds Feel Like Boiling Frogs, Be Borrowed, or Inspire Agency and Joy? Learning from John Nosta
Like gas and healthcare prices crowding out other spending, the topic of “AI” can crowd out other issues in our email inboxes, LinkedIn and other social media channels, and local and national concerns. Getting my head into John Nosta’s new book, The Borrowed Mind: Reclaiming Human Thought in the Age of AI, could not have come at a better time given AI’s growing presence in my own brain, work conversations, and local political discussions in our community and state. After one read-through, I let John know I would need to do a
Food & Wine Magazine Features Food-As-Medicine: Good for People, Good for the (Local) Economy
When the mainstream media food magazine Food & Wine devotes a long article to the concept of food-as-medicine, it calls to me….loudly. Here’s another proof-point for tying together public and individual health while boosting local economies. F&W featured Stacey Leasca’s essay, What Happens When Doctors Start Prescribing Food Instead of Pills?, online this month, and Stacey did her homework. One of Stacey’s go-to evidence-based resources for her column was the recently-released Rockefeller Foundation report, From Farm to FIM: The Economic Impact of Local Food is Medicine. The Foundation studied several local
The “Five-Month” Cognitive Penalty of Financial Decline: A Significant Loss of Financial Well-Being Correlates with About Five Months of Cognitive Decline A Year
Lower financial well-being and worsening financial conditions have been linked to declining brain function, according to new research from a team at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. The research, Changes in financial well-being and memory function and decline in middle-aged and older adults, was published this month in the American Journal of Epidemiology. “Worse financial well-being in midlife and older age — and especially declines over time — are associated with lower memory scores and faster cognitive decline,” the study notes — among the first to scrutinize the relationship between brain
Thank you Aaron Strout for hosting our conversation on the Reaching Higher Podcast, now live on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. We covered a lot of ground addressing health care and health citizenship, the growing prospects for our homes as our health hubs, and how our humanity is a key ingredient in health-making for all.
I'm grateful to be part of the Duke Corporate Education faculty, sharing perspectives on the future of health care with health and life science companies. Once again, I'll be brainstorming the future of health care with a cohort of executives working in a global pharmaceutical company.
Jane joined host Dr. Geeta "Dr. G" Nayyar and colleagues to brainstorm the value of vaccines for public and individual health in this challenging environment for health literacy, health politics, and health citizen grievance. Click onto the Pfizer Value of Vaccines site and you can watch four episodes covering the challenges with adult vaccination, the employer and health plan member's journey to vaccination, reimbursement, and collaborating for proactive prevention.