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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-don-t-animals-get-schizophrenia-and-how-come-we-do/

Want To Live Longer? Take Up Tennis, by @StevenSalzberg1
https://www.Forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2018/09/17/want-to-live-longer-take-up-tennis/ +10 yrs w/ tennis vs +3.4 swimming & +3.2 jogging. This is very surprising. Is there a hidden confounder? Income?

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“Tennis: 9.7 years gain in life expectancy
Badminton: 6.2 years
Soccer: 4.7 years
Cycling: 3.7 years
Swimming: 3.4 years
Jogging: 3.2 years
Calisthenics: 3.1 years
Health club activities: 1.5 years
The authors didn’t expect tennis to do so well, as you can see in this quote:

“Surprisingly, we found that tennis players had the longest expected lifetime among the 8 different sports.”
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One possible reason for tennis, badminton, and soccer doing so well is that out of the 8 sports studied, these are the ones that require 2 or more people and involve social interaction. As the authors explain,” “}}

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/books/review/knowledge-illusion-steven-sloman-philip-fernbach.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Out_(2015_film)

https://news.yale.edu/2018/10/10/nobel-laureate-thomas-steitz-dies-mapped-structure-ribosome

Tom Steitz’s passing is a sad day @Yale. Steitz was a great scientist & influential thinker, who helped shape molecular biophysics over many decades https://twitter.com/RonBreaker/status/1049966285726146561

In the kingdom of cyborgs
Big data is reshaping humanity, says Yuval Noah Harari
Uneven and easy to mock, his new book contains provocative and profound ideas

Aug 30th 2018

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/08/30/big-data-is-reshaping-humanity-says-yuval-noah-harari

D. Additional Information: Research Support

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List ongoing and completed research projects from the past three years that you want to draw attention to. Briefly indicate the overall goals of the projects and your responsibilities. Do not include the number of person months or direct costs.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06035-7

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/08/30/big-data-is-reshaping-humanity-says-yuval-noah-harari

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/obituaries/thomas-a-steitz-dead.html

Thomas A. Steitz, 78, Dies; Illuminated a Building Block …

Thomas A. Steitz, a towering figure of late-20th-century science who shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for figuring out the structure of a huge molecule central to translating the genetic code …