Here Are 4 Powerful Ways to Fight Stress, According to a Psychologist Who Works With the Dying | How Israel Can Win | Land reform in Africa is challenging the power of chiefs | Scientists have published an atlas of the brain

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Here Are 4 Powerful Ways to Fight Stress, According to a Psychologist Who Works With the Dying - Inc.com

Working with people facing one of life's most difficult moments--a terminal illness--can teach you a lot about how to handle stress, burnout, and sorrow. Most of us are feeling these things and more after more than two years of seemingly nonstop stressors--the pandemic, social unrest, natural disasters, war in Ukraine, mass shootings that have become frighteningly common, and an economy sliding toward recession.

"I think we can all agree: the last couple of years have been hard," she said in a session at last month's GeekWire Summit in Seattle. The World Health Organization recognized burnout as a diagnosable condition in ((??)). WHO defines burnout as unmanaged workplace stress, characterized by extreme exhaustion and negative feelings toward your job. "All of this leads to reduced productivity," she added.

"You may be experiencing this in your own lives and your own organizations," she said. "And I would argue that what we're experiencing right now goes above and beyond what traditional burnout looks like." But she adds, even in the face of difficult times, "there is real science about how we move through into resilient spaces."

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How Israel Can Win - Foreign Affairs

Even in the wretched history of terrorism, the assault that Hamas carried out in Israel on October 7 stands out. Hamas fighters viciously murdered more than 1,300 Israeli citizens, including elderly people, toddlers, and babies. It was an act of intimate barbarism that revealed a total lack of moral restraint and evoked memories of the Holocaust.

Comparisons to another surprise attack on Israel—the Arab assault that launched the 1973 Yom Kippur War—are misleading in one important respect: the 2,656 Israelis who died then were exclusively soldiers. One must go back to the 1948 War of Independence to find comparable Israeli civilian casualties. The attack also involved hostage-taking on a massive scale, with roughly 150 people (mainly Israelis, but also Americans and other foreign nationals) captured and taken to Gaza; one Hamas leader vowed that the group would distribute video recordings of hostage executions if Israel launched a counterattack.

There is no defending or explaining such sadism. Repeated injustice and repression cannot excuse atrocity. Israelis’ outrage and desire for vengeance is understandable. Israel’s goal, according to Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, is to wipe Hamas “off the face of the earth.” Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon called for “the complete and unequivocal defeat of the enemy, at any cost.”

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Land reform in Africa is challenging the power of chiefs - The Economist

Many an investor has taken the road east from Freetown, the capital, into the heart of Sierra Leone seeking land for plantations or mines. Their journey invariably takes them to the door of a local chief. A system based on private land titles reaches no farther inland than the salty sea air.

So it goes in many parts of Africa, where roughly three-quarters of land is under customary ownership. In theory, that means it is managed by communities in line with tradition. But there is no consensus about how that should work in practice. Which community? Whose tradition? Should decisions be made by chiefs, families or individuals?

These questions are becoming more urgent as the demand for land rises. In 2007 a surge in food prices sparked a land rush. Foreign investors have since concluded large-scale deals for roughly 200,000 square kilometres of land in Africa, an area the size of mainland Britain, estimates Land Matrix, a data platform. That is one reason why many countries are rethinking customary tenure, including Sierra Leone, which rewrote its land laws last year. These do not just change property rights, but also recast political authority.

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Scientists have published an atlas of the brain - The Economist

Lord Rutherford, the discoverer of the atomic nucleus, divided science into physics and stamp collecting. (He was, after all, a physicist.) But he had a point. Other sciences, such as astronomy, chemistry, geology and, most notably, biology, rely a lot on collecting things (not literally, in the case of astronomy) and classifying them in various ways that would delight philatelists. Physics, by contrast, relies on analysing phenomena.

That said, the philatelist branches of science have been pretty successful, biology especially. And this week sees the addition of a new album to biology’s collection, in the form of 21 papers about the brain and its cells. The work was done under the purview of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network, which is organised by the National Institutes of Health, in America. The papers are published in various bits of the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s empire of journals, Science and its spin-offs. They are intended to help answer three, related questions: what and where are a brain’s cellular components; which cells are involved in neurological and psychiatric illnesses; and what makes the brains of Homo sapiens different from those of other animals?

Brains, particularly human ones, are the most complex objects in the known universe. That complexity is emphasised by the fact that, as these papers confirm, they are reckoned (depending on how you define such things) to contain about 3,000 different types of cell. For comparison, it was not so long ago that entire human bodies, brains included, were estimated to be built from just 300 cell types.

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