Not All Sports are Created Equal
Andrew Feld discusses the research challenges of determining how different types of sports impact youth mental health, and how to help parents understand the findings.
MAKING SPACE FOR ART IN SCIENCE
Inaugurating a longform vertical at Exploring Health: CSHH senior and dancer Gabrielle Stearns reflects on how science and the arts can enrich each other.
Health Beyond the Blog: Rachel E. Gross and “Vagina Obscura”
New on Health Beyond the Blog: Vagina Obscura. Prof. Maryn Mckenna interviews Rachel Gross about her book, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage, which details how anatomists mapped female reproductive organs and how a new generation is wresting them back.
Health Beyond the Blog: A Dive into Autism
The 2022 South Korean TV show “Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo” follows a young lawyer with autism spectrum disorder and shows how she thrives amidst stigma.
Health Beyond the Blog: The Reality of Living Organically
The 2018 documentary"The Biggest Little Farm" reveals the challenges and rewards of getting as close as possible to the process of producing food, showing the efforts of one family to live and eat naturally.
Health and the Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics showed us that shared health events–pandemics and their aftermath–affect the health of elite athletes in unpredictable ways.
COVID Chronicles | Exercise & Training Strategies for a Post-Pandemic World
With the rise of social media usage, exercise and diet culture have influenced a large number of people, and today’s youth is among them. In this episode, host Snehitha Vardhineni speaks to experts in the field as well as today’s youth to explore trends and personal experiences in relation to exercise and nutrition.
Health Beyond the Blog: Why It Costs $15,000 to Freeze Your Eggs
A new documentary explores the ethical and financial implications of oocyte preservation – egg freezing.
Mindfulness in Schools: Improving Children’s Mental Health and Learning
Mindfulness education can reduce stress and aid learning in middle and high schools, and may also help lessen the psychological impact of Covid – but it can be costly to implement.
COVID Chronicles | Quarantined Happiness: The Pandemic’s Effects on Young Adults & Teens
In this episode, host Matt Guerette aims to set the stage on the conversation around mental health and the effects of the pandemic on society’s most fragile, yet influential group – the youth.