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.
Health Beyond the Blog: A rough week for mask mandates
Vix's podcast "Today, Explained" takes up the changes to federal mask policies.
Dr. Andrew Miller: Part 2 – Inflammation and Depression
In this Part 2 episode with Dr. Andrew H. Miller, we explore why humans have an inflammatory bias, why the link between inflammation and depression likely enhanced survival and reproduction across human evolution and why the absence of co-evolved bacteria, viruses and worms in the modern world is making both inflammation and depression worse.
COVID Chronicles | The NeuroTech Talk: Neurotechnology & the Impacts of COVID-19
In this episode, host JuanMartin Abreu-Melon interviews four people from different walks of life and different stages in their neurotechnology careers to discuss how COVID-19 has impacted their work as scholars and researchers – as well as the future of the field.