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Do you know this person? Laura Carstensen, the director of the Stanford Center on Longevity ? Interesting paper with new ideas. Carstensen proposes allowing workers to scale their hours up or down throughout their careers, based on their responsibilities outside of paid work. She imagines two parents being able to temporarily reduce their full-time jobs to 20 hours a week when caring for their young children, and then ratcheting their hours back up later on. Under this model, people would work the same amount overall as they do now, but make up for periods of reduced hours with periods of longer hours and/or by spreading work out over more years of their (longer) lives. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/12/future-work-shorter-hours-longer-careers/621003/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en  

How Times Reporters Handle Prickly Conversations With Celebrities https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/29/insider/how-times-reporters-handle-celebrity-interviews.html?referringSource=articleShare

Little by little, we have forgotten how to say, "I don't know." If we are unfamiliar with an issue, we can easily Google it, and in the next five to 10 minutes we will be able to come up with something to say about it. And if we take a few more minutes, we can even convince ourselves that we are experts — even though those snippets of information do not amount to knowledge. THE ALCHEMY OF ANGST The Japan Times 28-Dec-2021 How to mit­i­gate data over­load and stay in­formed Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Li...

Interesting research findings. https://japantoday.com/category/features/health/stress-is-contagious-in-relationships-–-here%27s-what-you-can-do-to-support-your-partner-and-boost-your-own-health-during-the-holidays-and-beyond ?

But can binge-watching become problematic or addictive? And if you can't tear yourself away, what can you do? https://theconversation.com/are-you-binge-watching-too-much-how-to-know-if-your-tv-habits-are-a-problem-and-what-to-do-about-it-172817?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2021/12/18/an-economic-history-of-restaurants An economic history of restaurants from TheEconomist Poverty and a lack of social services exacerbate the problem, as does internal migration: younger people often leave older family members behind in the countryside. Because of falling birth rates, elderly people have fewer youngsters to look after them.

https://www.economist.com/china/2021/12/18/nearly-one-third-of-suicides-in-china-are-by-old-people Nearly one-third of suicides in China are by old people from TheEconomist Poverty and a lack of social services exacerbate the problem, as does internal migration: younger people often leave older family members behind in the countryside. Because of falling birth rates, elderly people have fewer youngsters to look after them.

Amazing indeed. https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/japanese-fruit-and-veggie-carving-artist-turns-broccoli-into-epic-fish-sculpture-1 ?

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Lal's working philosophy was charge a nominal tariff if you  Read more at: https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/sunday-read/blue-eyed-water-boy/articleshow/70414885.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/others/sunday-read/blue-eyed-water-boy/articleshow/70414885.cms

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When we chlorinate water, or use other similar biocides, we create an environment toxic to many microbes (including many fecal-oral parasites). This has saved many millions of lives. However, this same intervention has also favored the persistence of another kind of parasite, nontuberculous mycobacteria. Nontuberculous mycobacteria turn out to be relatively resistant to chlorine. As a result, chlorination  creates  conditions  in  which nontuberculous mycobacteria thrive.  https://bigthink.com/life/natural-history-of-the-future/  

Over a century of nutrition research and practice The Japan Times 18-Dec-2021 Traditional Food is medicine.  Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |  

Wonderful song. http://translationsofsomesongsofcarnticmusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/innu-daya-baarade.html

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/10/business/corporate-business/hitachi-shinkansen-uk/

In contrast, engineers from even more populous China had the option of finding jobs at home or returning after completing their US postgrads as their domestic economy boomed, said Johns Hopkins University professor Devesh Kapur, an IIT graduate himself. https://japantoday.com/category/tech/why-global-tech-turns-to-indian-talent?

Very well written. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021-12-11

Valuable insights. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021/12/07/a-country-that-is-on-the-front-line

Very well written. https://www.economist.com/special-report/2021-12-11

Very well said. Do you know this Professor ? https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0008075414

Very well said. Do you know this Professor ? https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0008075414

The Japan Times 07-Dec-2021 Page 4 Read more... Lucky you. This email was sent to you by a user of PressReader, who thought you'd be interested in reading this story. It means you get to click the link and read it. It does not, however, mean you get any licenses, express or implied, to the intellectual property, copyrighted material, or trademarks of PressReader or any of our content partners. PressReader Inc., 200-13111 Vanier Place, Richmond BC V6V 2J1, Canada PressReader International Limited, 2nd Floor, The Boat House, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, D08 H01F, Ireland ®2003- PressReader, all rights reserved. |  

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BANGKOK —  Chinese and Lao officials Friday will inaugurate a $5.9 billion high-speed rail line through Laos, six years after breaking ground on the first leg of Beijing's grand plans to link China's underdeveloped interior with the bustling seaports of Singapore by train. https://www.voanews.com/a/china-launches-high-speed-rail-through-laos-in-first-leg-of-southeast-asia-corridor/6336517.html  

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