The acerbic Ben Goldacre debunks the Blue Monday myth in today’s Guardian.

So Blue Monday does not put a catchy name on a simple human truth. It only really shows us how easy it is to take an idea that people think they already know, and then sell it back to them. Even if it’s false.
While it might be tempting to try to piggyback on nonsense, communicating on mental health issues – like anything interesting — requires that you challenge stigma and assumptions, not reinforce them.Curious? Continue reading

Source: The Guardian

How can they not be? Would it be too obvious for me to state that positive emotions are good for your health at any age 😉

The notion that feeling good may be good for your health is not new, but is it really true?

We all age. It is how we age, however, that determines the quality of our lives

-says Anthony Ong of Cornell University author of a new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The article reviews the existing research on how positive emotions can influence health outcomes in later adulthood. [continue reading…]

Daniel MacArthur is a genomics researcher who writes about the fast-moving world of human genetics. Daniel takes a close look at a PNAS paper published this week in this Wired article.

Let me be clear from the outset: given the limitations of the datasets the authors had to work with (they relied on results from studies performed by other researchers, and there are few cohorts with both genetic and social network data), there are a lot of things this study has done well. .

Curious? Continue reading While your passing that way you might like to bookmark Daniel’s blog for Wired Welcome to the new Genetic Future

Source: Wired