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How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam | TED Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she’s discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can “build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.
Working overtime? At Stanford, physicians bank the time for later. Doctors have plenty of money, but zero time—so Stanford started paying them in hours instead of dollars. How might outsourcing the ‘second shift’ save us all from burnout?
Time We live our lives at human speed, we experience and interact with the world on a human time scale. In this episode, we have the opportunity to consider the ways we conceive of the intersection between time and speed on a physical and metaphysical level.Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator by Tim Urban In this hilarious and insightful talk, Urban takes us on a journey through YouTube binges, Wikipedia rabbit holes and bouts of staring out the window — and encourages us to think harder about what we’re really procrastinating on, before we run out of time.
How We See Ourselves, How We See Others by Emily Pronin Does our ability to know our own volition give us accurate insight into the volition of others? This article argues that the answer is a definitive “No”.
The Obesity Epidemic 7 minute video on the obesity epidemic
Report: COVID-19 Exacerbates Obesity, Health Inequity in States Mississippi had the highest rate of obesity in 2019 while Colorado was home to the lowest rate of obesity, according to a recent report.
The ACFT and the Problems with the Military’s Cult of Physical Fitness 
Obesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling Lieutenant General Mark Hertling addresses the issue of obesity as a national security issue.