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The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Wellness Industry Is Making Us Sick | The Walrus
 Marco Zenone is a public health researcher who studies misinformation and online portrayals of health and wellness issues. A few years ago, he wanted to study the usefulness and accuracy of mental health TikTok videos. When he asked whether I’d be interested in joining his team, I didn’t hesitate.
We took a sample of the top 1,000 TikTok videos with the hashtag #mentalhealth from a specific time frame in 2021 and then analyzed the content. Most videos involved users sharing their personal stories, thoughts, or perspectives, and over one-third contained advice or information presented as factual. When we analyzed the videos with advice and information—which were watched over 1 billion times—we found that 67 percent could be considered useful but 33 percent were misleading. Some of the misleading ones parroted anti-psychiatry tropes, such as the idea that medications aren’t helpful and “are for profit only.” Alarmingly, the misleading videos also received more views, likes, comments, and shares than the ones we classified as useful. Our findings are consistent with other studies showing that TikTok videos contain high amounts of misinformation about more specific health topics, such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, prostate cancer, and COVID-19.
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Editor's Note: TikTok is only one gargantuan source of mental health misinformation where online creators can - unintentionally or not - play expert and therapist to billions of users. We are at a point in human history where we have access to the best available information at our fingertips, and yet it doesn't lead to better-informed health decisions, because that information is drowned out by a rival proliferation of emotionally charged fake science news, conspiracies, alternative facts, and social media echo chambers.
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WorkParents Are Minimizing Work Relationships to Make Time for Childcare - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Jenna is stressed. She has to perform some research for a client report, write up part of the report, and leave the office by 5 PM so she can pick up her son from after-school care. Working furiously, she feels she is finally hitting her stride when Seth her colleague who sits on the same floor stops by her office to say hi and ask how her weekend was. Jenna smiles and, politely but curtly, states that she had a good weekend. She does not return the question, and Seth leaves. As soon as he exits, she quickly returns to the report. Work
WorkHow Sheriffs Might Power Trumps Deportation Machine - The New Yorker (No paywall) One of Donald Trumps main campaign promisesone that was printed on signs at the Republican National Convention and at Trump rallies across the countrywas mass deportation. In November, Trump announced that Tom Homan, the architect of family separation during his first term, would be his pick to see this promise through, as a border czar. Homan is enthusiastic about the task ahead of him. They aint seen shit yet, he said in July. The effort would look less like mass sweeps and more like targeted arrests, he said recently on 60 Minutes. Well know who were going to arrest, where were most likely to find em based on numerous inve You know, investigative processes. Work
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WorkWorkHow wind tech hopes to help decarbonize cargo shipping Inhabitants of the Marshall Islands--a chain of coral atolls in the center of the Pacific Ocean--rely on sea transportation for almost everything: moving people from one island to another, importing daily necessities from faraway nations, and exporting their local produce.
WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkNanotech Scientists Build on an Insects Odd Soccer-Ball-Like Excretions to Design Ingenious Camouflage - Scientific American (No paywall) In the early 1950s biologists at Brooklyn College were using an electron microscope to pursue a lead that the leafhopper, a common insect that is about the size of a rice grain and named after one of its signature behaviors, could be an agent of viral transmission. In their research, the scientists incidentally observed, in their words, certain ultramicroscopic bodies, hitherto undescribed, on the wings of leafhoppers. In a 1953 note in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society, they dubbed these minuscule, spherical, jacklike structures brochosomes, after a Greek word meaning mesh of a net. WorkDonald Trump warns USA is "breaking down" "This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership," he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "The USA is breaking downA violent erosion of Safety, National Security, and Democracy is taking place all across our Nation." WorkTesla's sales fell year-over-year for the first time Tesla's production and delivery numbers for 2024 are out, and the numbers are pretty sobering. The premiere EV company in the US produced 1.77 million cars this year, a drop of about 4 percent compared to the previous year, and delivered 1. WorkWorkThe most popular New Year's resolutions for 2025 “The problem is people, when they want to be better in the new year, they never focus on understanding what are the exact behaviors that I need to be done to turn into habits, and what’s the plan I’m going to create to make that thing habitual.” WorkThese are North America's most on-time airlines Most airline customers likely pick their favorite airline by whichever one has the cheapest fares or the most attractive loyalty programs, but another important part of the flying experience is when it ends. Some carriers are better than others at making sure that ending happens when it’s supposed to, and the aviation analytics company Cirium looked through its data to figure out which ones were the very best at getting passengers to their destinations on time throughout 2024. WorkWorkThese airlines were the most on time in 2024 The most on-time airlines spanned the globe, according to a ranking released Thursday by Cirium. The aviation data firm considers punctuality an arrival that occurs within 15 minutes of the scheduled time. Delta Air Lines topped rankings for U.S. and Canadian airlines despite its struggle to recover from the CrowdStrike outage in July that canceled thousands of flights. WorkWorkSamsung's Galaxy A16 5G phone and Fit3 tracker are coming the US The battery life is great, at 13 days, and the IP68 rating means that it should be able to handle being submerged in water, so long as it’s not taken too deep. The tracker pairs with the Samsung Health app, which allows access to 100 different workout types. The Fit3 costs $60 and comes in a few colors, including gray, silver and gold. These colors apply to both the band and the tracker itself. WorkTesla reports its first-ever annual drop in deliveries In other news, I do not understand stocks. Ford, which sold 1.72 million vehicles in the US by Q3, is worth under $10 per share. Tesla is currently trading at $380 per share, all while selling significantly fewer vehicles than Ford and, well, just about every other major automobile manufacturer. Maybe rival stocks would shoot up if the big US auto companies started putting more effort into humanoid robots that don’t actually do anything. WorkWorkWorkWorkItalian fashion designer and a??colour geniusa?? Rosita Missoni dies aged 93 A keen traveller, avid collector of art and famous thrift-market devotee, towards the end of her life Missoni regularly invited interior magazines to photograph her Sumirago home, confirming her reputation as one of the world's most influential tastemakers. In 2022, she told the Observer magazine: "I have had the privilege of living a long life and I take great pleasure in sharing our home." Work20 councillors in Nottinghamshire quit Labour over Starmer leadershipThe former Labour MP Rosie Duffield also quit the party earlier this year to sit as an independent, citing the winter fuel payment cut as well as a refusal to lift the two-child benefit cap. Duffield had clashed previously with the Labour leadership and some party members because of her gender-critical views. WorkWorkWorkWorkAgave, the startup behind Find the Cat, finds $18M The funding comes at a time when casual mobile games -- word puzzles, physical puzzles, number puzzles, farm-building, and the rest -- continue to rake in huge audiences and revenues. Find the Cat crossed 10 million downloads in its first quarter of life (it was only released in August). |
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