Jordan Rosenfeld
Science, Health, Finance
I write about health, science, neuroscience, aging, education, environment, and finance. Also author of 7 books, 5 on writing. jordanwritelife@gmail.com and @JordanRosenfeld
PROJECTS
secondnexus.com
Is Vaping Safer Than Smoking Cigarettes? What Are the Health Risks?
Cigarettes can be one of the most difficult addictions to quit, as addictive as heroin. So the rise of vaping—inhaling vaporized nicotine through electronic “e-cigarettes”—has been touted as the perfect solution to help smokers quit, or to offer a less toxic alternative to smoking.
However, recent research has begun to look more closely at these allegedly reduced risks of vaping to health and finding them not as benign as they had initially thought.
For example, when we compare vaping’s healt...
medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com
Healthcare billing should look to other industries to improve
Removing the friction in billing by looking to technology that other industries use.
NBC
Perimenopause doesn't have to be a battle. Here's how I stopped fighting my hormones — and changed my life.
Perimenopause signals a change in both body and mind. I'm trying to embrace it rather engage in a battle with my body.
mental_floss
8 Ways to Tell If Someone Is Lying to You
If you want to catch a liar in their tracks, look for the following "tells," courtesy of father and daughter Dan and Lisa Ribacoff, credibility assessment experts and advanced certified polygraph examiners based in New York.
Medium
Ignorance About Menstruation Puts Women’s Health at Risk
Cultural stigmas around bleeding have made their way into modern medicine
youinc.com
Are Screens Distracting You From Your Productivity?
Is it the screens or the way we use them that distracts from our productivity?
mental_floss
When You Feel "Chemistry" With Someone, What's Actually Going On?
We know chemistry when we feel it with another person, but we don't always know why we're drawn to one person over another. Is it just a cascade of neurotransmitters and hormones conspiring to rush you toward reproduction? Is it attraction borne of a set of shared values? Or is it bonding over specific experiences that create intimacy?
It's probably a combination of all three, plus ineffable qualities that even matchmaking services can't perfectly nail down.
"Scientists now assume, with very ...
medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com
Can Artificial Intelligence Help Prevent Physician Burnout?
Artificial intelligence may reduce hassles and tasks that exhaust physicians.
NBC
Too much stress can make you physically ill. Researchers now may know why.
Our bodies were designed to fight big predators and tiny pathogens, not deal with work deadlines.
youinc.com
Navigating Change As An Entrepreneur
They say change is inevitable in life and business, but that doesn’t mean it’s always welcome. Lessons from fellow entrepreneurs who have navigated their way through both voluntary change, and the kind that happens unexpectedly.
NBC
How can I live longer? Researchers say the key to longevity may be simpler than we think
People with a greater sense of purpose tend to engage in healthier lifestyle behaviors and live longer.
mental_floss
6 Tips From Experts on How to Fake Loving a Gift You Hate
Tips for projecting "I love it" when you really don't like a gift from a body language expert and an acting coach.
medicaleconomics.modernmedicine.com
Empowering an entire team to prevent burnout
One Stanford clinic took a team-based approach to burnout.
Medium
Can New Research Validate Women’s Pain? –The X Chromosome Hypothesis of Autoimmune Disease
A new study suggests the main source of a female bias in autoimmune disease is neither the often-assumed female reproductive hormones nor emotional stress; the culprit appears to lie on the second, inactive X chromosome in cisgender women and those assigned female at birth.
mental_floss
Why Is Your First Instinct After Hurting Your Finger to Put It in Your Mouth?
If you close your fingers in a car door or slam your funny bone into a wall, you might find your first reaction is to suck on your fingers or rub your elbow. Not only is this an instinctive self-soothing behavior, it's a pretty effective technique for temporarily calming pain signals to the brain.
But how and why does it work? To understand, you need to know about the dominant theory of how pain is communicated in the body.
In the 17th century, French scientist and philosopher René Descartes ...