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Peak Mind is one of those books written by a leader in the field that’s wrapped in the kind of self-help package publishers hold dear but that delivers so much more. It does offer help, but it also educates. It invites you to contemplate how something so innately part of who we are functions and malfunctions. In the early pages, I was taken by the explanatory power of this simple summation of ways attention breaks down: depleted attention, hijacked attention, fragmented attention, disconnected attention....

Pauline Chen, M.D., puts us behind the wheel of what goes on in her mind when she sees a patient: it’s difficult to think about what’s going on right in front of her. She writes: I had walked into the exam room to listen to this patient; but my mind was a few steps behind, as I struggled with thoughts about the colleague who’d just snapped at me over the phone because she was in no mood to get another new consult, my mounting piles of unfinished paperwork, and the young patient with widespread cancer whom I’d seen earlier in the day....

Other universities are beginning to study the effects of mindfulness on stress levels and productivity. The Information School at the University of Washington just completed a study with human resource managers to see how mindfulness practices affected their ability to maintain focus and multitask. To read more about the student nurse study, click here. 07/12/12 [photo © flickr.com/jdlasica]

This device first went on exhibit during the CES 2022 early this year. But the smart ring failed to make a public appearance after being unveiled in January. Now, the company responsible for producing this device is assuring the public that its new smart ring will launch this year. The target market for Movano’s coming product will be women. When this coming product will become available for purchase is still unknown....

My Lists is a new tab that sits next to My Movies up top. It offers two options: automatically generated lists and user-created lists. The former is of more interest here. As you might have guessed, this machine learning-powered feature will automatically generate lists of movies based on different factors. It could be all Marvel movies in one list or a list of all classics. These AI-generated lists could literally have thousands of categories based on factors like a franchise, genre, actors, themes, user interests, and whatnot....