Optimist by choice
I was reading the beautiful words of Clarity on optimism. Read it here. I started to comment and then decided to do a wee post on the subject of optimism. What is optimism, really, and what is it good for?To me optimism is absolutely a choice.
Must remember the rabbit.
There’s a particular head cracking, throbbing pain that sends me immediately to my knees, an ache so fierce that sitting at a computer for longer than 10 minutes becomes unbearable. sleep my head whispers I need to sleep so I sleep longer. Harder. More. I could sleep for days. The gift this summer won’t be mania. It shall be depression it seems. It seeps in when you least expect it. Your schedule changes and your body doesn’t respond like it did when you were 22
Public Enemies
From super producer/director Michael Mann comes his latest Depression era thriller Public Enemies. Starring the likes of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, and statue winner in her own right Marion Cotillard the film is sure to delight and thrill, as we fantasize about illusions of making it rain during our own recession. Drops Tomorrow. BUY IT »
Vibe Is Gone
History. The void that the closing of Vibe leaves is immense. I don’t believe any other media is equipped or even remotely interested in taking up the space that Vibe has. After speaking with my man Rob Kenner, and Twittering the hell out of my grief and anger over this, I’m coming to this realization: The only upside of this depression is that many of us no longer have a side hustle to distract us from the incredible art we gotta make. RIP VIBE. RIP “Urban Magazines”.
Crisis has eased; won\’t go into depression: Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase, in an exclusive interview to CNBCTV18 said the economic crisis had easened and that the world won\’t go into Depression from here.
Can Johnny Depp Save ‘Public Enemies’?
Are you psyched to see Captain Jack Sparrow as a real-life gangster? Johnny Depp plays an infamous criminal in Michael Mann’s Public Enemies , which opens tomorrow. But in a world where giant robots draw huge crowds, “do audiences want to see Depp as a fairly realistic, non-fantasy version of Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger?” That’s the question asked by Anne Thompson , a veteran industry analyst. She describes the movie as only “fitfully engaging … often flat as a pancake
Depressed Trainees and the PI
A little while ago Isis the Scientist posted a reader question about whether an academic trainee should broach mental illness issues with his or her PI. As Isis said, it is one heck of a question. To be honest, Isis alluded to the topic in an email prior to writing her post and I basically had no good suggestions. Today, PalMD has posted a letter from another academic trainee who suffers from depression. I encourage you PIs in my audience to go over there and comment. Some of the rea
Do Antidepressant Drugs Increase Risk of Obesity?
Previous research has shown an association between people who have had clinical depression and obesity. But does having a major clinical depressive episode — or the drugs used to treat depression, called antidepressants — increase the risk of becoming obese? Researchers looked at data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), a longitudinal study over 10 years of a representative sample of household residents in Canada. The incidence of obesity, defined as a body ma
Lex: Markets’ first half
The second quarter may well have marked the bottom. But it could also descend into infamy as the most deceptive three months in economic memory. Certainly all the talk of a second Great Depression has vanished. Equity markets are up by between a 10th and a third and data are better across a range of economic indicators….
My country, boom or bust
Why economic nationalism is unpatriotic. Illustration: Dave Cutler As the world economy plunges into recession, globalization is going into reverse. A virtuous circle of rising trade and booming economic growth has turned into a vicious spiral of plunging demand and collapsing trade. Faced with the most severe downturn since the Great Depression, governments promise not to repeat the mistakes of the 1930s.
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