John Cassel:
Michel A. Ibrahim et al. The legacy of John C. Cassel. Am J Epidemiol 1980 (July);112(1):1-7. http://aje.oxfordjournals.org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/112/1/1.full.pdfSidney Kark and John Cassel. Social Medicine Pioneers and South African Emigrés.Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee. Am J Public Health. 2002 November; 92(11): 1744–1745. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221478/
Social epidemiology: strategies for public health activism, Julie G. Cwikel, Columbia Univ Press, 2006
Social justice:
What Does Social Justice Require For The Public's Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives. Lawrence O. Gostin and Madison Powers. Health Affairs 2006;25(4):1053- http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1482&context=facpub
Dan E. Beauchamp. The neglected tradition of public health. The Hastings Center Report 1985 (Dec);15(6):28-36, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3563066
Dan E. Beauchamp. Public health as social justice. Inquiry 1976 (March);13:3-14. http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/ph_as_social_justice.760301.pdf
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854, by Christopher Hamlin, 1997. Review by Dale H. Porter, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30.3 (1999) 504-505. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_interdisciplinary_history/v030/30.3porter.html
Health disparities:IOM Workshop How Far Have We Come in Reducing Health Disparities?: Progress Since 2000: Workshop Summary ( 2012 ) Workshop summary: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=13383
Targeting Health Disparities: A Model Linking Upstream Determinants To Downstream Interventions Knowing about the interaction of societal factors and disease can enable targeted interventions to reduce health disparities.
Sarah Gehlert, Dana Sohmer, Tina Sacks, Charles Mininger, Martha McClintock, and Olufunmilayo Olopade
Health Aff (Millwood). 2008; 27(2): 339–349.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2494954/
Free course: Roots of Health Inequity. "Anyone interested in addressing the root causes of health inequity may take this course. Our material is written primarily for local public health department staff at all levels." (Link) (From NAACHO)
Krieger N. Epidemiology and The People’s Health: Theory and Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Krieger N, ed. Embodying Inequality: Epidemiologic Perspectives. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publications, Inc., 2004.
Dollars and Dentists, PBS Frontline, June 26, 2012, FRONTLINE and the Center for Public Integrity investigate the shocking consequences of a broken dental care system.
Against the Odds: Community Health: A model for the world and On Common Ground (National Library of Medicine web exhibit); also, Out in the Rural: A health center in Mississippi, produced by Judy Schader Rogers, 1970; plus interviews by Robert Korstad with H. Jack Geiger, John W. Hatch, and L.C. Dorsey (from Vic)
2008 UNC Department of Health Behavior and Health Education Retrospective with John Hatch and Jack Geiger (includes Out in the Rural).
(More about John Hatch:
http://www.minority.unc.edu/sph/history/JohnHatchInterviewbyFayMitchell.htmhttp://www.minority.unc.edu/sph/history/JohnHatchInterviewbyFayMitchell.htm
)
> Background/History:
Angie Debo. A history of the Indians of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press, Apr 17, 2013 (link)
PBS. The Africans in America (link)
Discovery of polio vaccine (VHS conversion)
Ten great public health achievements -- United States, 1900-1999. MMWR April 02, 1999;48(12);241-243
Ten great public health achievements -- United States, 2001-2010. MMWR May 20, 2011;60(19);619-623
Paul Robeson
The People's Century (VHS conversion)
James C. Thomas and Karen K. Thomas. Things ain't what they ought to be: social forces underlying racial disparities in rates of sexually transmitted diseases in a rural North Carolina county. Social Science & Medicine 1999;49:1075-1084 (article)
Dreaming of a Time. The School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1939-1989. Robert Rodgers Korstad, 1990. Three online versions:
Howard N. Lee. The Courage to Lead: One Man's Journey in Public Service. (Link) Biographical sketch
Robert R. Korstad and James Leloudis. To Right These Wrongs. The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America. UNC Press. (Website)
1890s-1950s
Voices of Tuskegee (video)
> South Africa
NLM Exhibit, Community health: a model for the world
http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/againsttheodds/exhibit/community_health/model_world.cfm
Sidney L. Kark, John Cassel. The Pholela Health Centre: a progress report. South Africa Medical Journal, 9 Feb 1952; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2557660/pdf/10361770.pdf
The Pholela Health Centre: A Progress Report. Sidney L. Kark and John Cassel, Am J Public Health. 2002 November; 92(11): 1743–1747. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447320/Tollman SM, The Pholela Health Centre--the origins of community-oriented primary health care (COPC). An appreciation of the work of Sidney and Emily Kark. S Afr Med J. 1994 Oct;84(10):653-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7839251 (abstract)
Sidney L. Kark, A practice of social medicine: a South African team's experiences in different African communities. Health Sciences Library Books WA 30 K18 1962. http://ocw.jhsph.edu/courses/casestudiesinphc/PDF/Lecture%20Guide%20-Pholela.pdf
> 1950s-1970s
> Civil Rights Movement
American Experience: Eyes on the Prize America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985
Eyes on the Prize - 01 - Awakenings, 1954-1956 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVB2AlVpt0I)
Eyes on the Prize - 02 - Fighting Back, 1957-1962 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a32Uc1oP7s)
Eyes on the Prize - 03 - Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwz5-OFYmA)
(. . .)
Eyes on the Prize - 13 - The Keys to the Kingdom, 1974-1980 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHZoa4tLmEE)
Adaora A. Adimora, Catalina Ramirez, Victor J. Schoenbach, Myron S. Cohen. Policies and politics that promote HIV infection in the southern United States. AIDS 2014. Accepted for publication.
Perceived discrimination and overweight. Am J Epidemiol 2011 (June 1);173(11):1223-1245
Jennifer Ahern and Sandro Galea. Collective efficacy and major depression in urban neighborhoods. Am J Epidemiol 2011 (June 15);173(12):1453-1462.Man Ki Kwok et al. Early life infections and onset of puberty: evidence from Hong Kong's children of 1997 birth cohort. Am J Epidemiol 2011 (June 15);173(12):1440-1452
PBS Frontline investigation of the NFL's concussion crisis, "League of Denial" and other pages thereCriminal justice system: “Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me?” (414: Right to Remain Silent (Act 2) Sep 10, 2010 from This American Life with Ira Glass) (Graham Rayman, The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct, Village Voice, May 4 2010)
Robert A. Hummer and Elaine M. Hernandez, “The Effect of Educational Attainment on Adult Mortality in the U.S.”, Population Reference Bureau (link)
Mariana Arcaya, AJPH Sept 2013, People who live near foreclosed homes may be at greater risk of being overweight than those who don’t have such homes in their immediate neighborhoods
Margaret Caughy (UTSPH), Tammy Leonard, Kurt Beron and James Murdoch (NSF-funded). Poor physical conditions within one quarter to one half miles from the child’s home were related to more behavioral problems, even after taking into consideration child and family characteristics. In addition, children who lived in close proximity to other children with behavior problems had higher level behavior problems themselves.
www.npr.org/2014/01/31/268996343/when-jeremiah-couldnt-take-more-bullying-he-took-his-life (Story Corps)
Childhood lead exposure - see email during planning for Early Childhood Development broadcast. Also, David Rosner, Plumbing the plumbing, American Scientist Nov-Dec 2007;95:541-544 review of The great lead water pipe disaster by Werner Troesken, MIT Press, 2006.
School-to-Prison pipeline, for profit prison corporations
The United Nations (UN) inadvertently caused a deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti, and has legal and moral obligations to remedy the situation, according to new report released by researchers from the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health. The report, “Peacekeeping without Accountability,” provides the first comprehensive analysis of the cause of the massive outbreak of cholera in Haiti, which has killed more than 8,000 people and sickened more than 600,000 since it began in 2010. The report examines the role the UN played in precipitating the crisis and the UN’s responsibilities to provide legal remedies to victims of the epidemic. It directly contradicts recent statements by the UN Secretary-General that the organization did not bring cholera to Haiti, and has no legal responsibilities for the epidemic or its consequence. Ms. Rosalyn A. Chan, Dr. Albert I. Ko, Ms. Alice Miller, et al.
Linda A. Fried. Countering chronic diseases. Science 4 Jan 2013;339:35. Review of David Stuckler and Karen Siegel, eds. Sick societies: responding to the global challenge of chronic disease. Oxford, 2011. "The volume focuses on identifying why although 'preventing diseases may be biologically feasible' it does not appear to be happening." "The authors ... demonstrate that the circumstances underlying these diseases are, in many cases, beyond the control of individuals and that institutions and leaders outside of health systems and science have to be part of the solutions." "The book ... might have moved us closer to solutions had it laid out a vision for how the difference sectors must work together, based on evidence as to the causes of causes."
> Political economics
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2013/01/16/the-messy-link-between-slave-owners-and-modern-management/
CREF participant resolution
A small but growing number of banks, including some major players, have been offering the equivalent of payday loans, calling them "deposit advances" with triple-digit percentage interest rates - or rather, fees, so no interest disclosure is needed! - http://wunc.org/post/banks-fill-payday-loan-gap
Mapping poverty in America. NY Times Jan 4, 2014
How the U.S. counts the poor, http://www.thenation.com/article/177270/just-deserts
http://www.thenation.com/article/176915/scandal-racist-marijuana-possession-arrests-and-why-we-must-stop-them
The Nation, Nov 18, 2013 (cover photo of the Choom Gang) - Blowing Smoke by Mike Riggs, Pot Reform's Race Problem by Carl L. Hart, The scandal of racism marijuana arrests by Harry Levine, Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom by Martin A. Lee, Prescription: Cannabis by Martin A. Lee, Will Medical Pot Survive? by Kristen Gwynne, High Times by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (http://www.thenation.com/issue/november-18-2013)
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/about_mi_30.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/world/global-slavery-index/
Global wealth inequality, illustrated: http://climateandcapitalism.com/2013/11/13/global-wealth-inequality/
Planet Money's t-shirts from Bangladesh - how the global economy works http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/11/27/247564324/episode-499-richard-nixon-kimchi-and-the-first-clothing-factory-in-bangladeshhttp://www.npr.org/2013/09/12/221425582/tired-of-inequality-one-economist-says-itll-only-get-worse
Robert Reich: InequalityForAll.com
Thomas B. Edsall, Just right inequality. NY Times, 3/4/2014 (article)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/opinion/edsall-just-right-inequality.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
http://paulpiff.wix.com/paulpiff#!about/c199t
Park Avenue: money, power and the American dream - Why Poverty?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6niWzomA_So&feature=share
https://www.aclu.org/prison-profiteers
Diane Rehm Show: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-09-12/implications-americas-new-gilded-age
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/making-it-in-america/308844/
>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/opinion/friedman-average-is-over.html?_r=0
Chris Arnade (Johns Hopkins physics PhD who worked on Wall Street for 20 years and became a photographer and journalist:
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/25/wall-street-hard-time-ethical
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/08/wall-street-versus-poor-in-america
PBS Frontline To Catch a Trader
FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith goes inside the government’s ongoing, seven-year crackdown on insider trading, drawing on exclusively obtained video of hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen, incriminating FBI wiretaps of other traders, and interviews with both Wall Street and Justice Department insiders. http://video.unctv.org/video/2365150175/
"Chart of the day"
http://iasp.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Author/shapiro-thomas-m/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/07/anatomy-of-the-euro-crisis - a very readable account of the Euro crisis that may be an entrée into how economic forces shape the world that public health attempts to improve. Along with the Depression segment from “The People’s Century” and something on the 21st century Great Recession, this may be a way to raise questions cabout the cyclic nature of human awareness and responses to economic opportunity and adversity.
Andy Robinson. Why Europe needs a new deal. The Nation, December 5, 2011. http://www.thenation.com/article/164649/why-europe-needs-new-deal#
PBS Frontline, The Retirement Crisis
"The world braces for retirement crisis", David McHugh et al. (AP). http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/12/29/3491625/ap-impact-the-world-braces-for.html
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/07/social-impact-bonds - this is one of the more intriguing ideas about how to attract private funds for social needs, something I’ve wondered about for a long time. For example, investment in early childhood development is said to have a good rate of return. But how does that return get linked to the investment capital needed to make it happen? With these bonds, a project is funded with the savings/returns contractually guaranteed to the investors (which can include foundations) and paid from the savings the government accrues.
What funds can one count on for one's retirement in 10-20-40-60 years? Social Security? Government (federal, state, municipal) pension? Corporate pension? Bank deposits? Stock brokers? Mutual funds? Stocks? Bonds? Gold? Real estate?
United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365030339/
(More like this at Bill Moyers & Company, http://billmoyers.com/ and Political Science Video Collection, http://digital.films.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/AccountSubjects.aspx?SubjectID=951
Lee Fang. The right leans in. The Nation, April 15, 2013 (article)
Fresh Air (broadcast December 10, 2013): "How ALEC Serves As A 'Dating Service' For Politicians And Corporations". The American Legislative Exchange Council is a group that brings together state legislators and representatives of corporations. Together, they develop model bills that lawmakers introduce and try to pass in their state legislatures.
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/10/249956329/how-alec-serves-as-a-dating-service-for-politicians-and-corporations (documents: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/841593-alec-docs.html)
The John William Pope Foundation (video) (website) (2014 gift to LCCC)
Lee Fang. Where have all the lobbyists gone? The Nation, March 10/17, 2014 (article)
Lewis Powell 1971 memorandum, http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/ and http://reclaimdemocracy.org/powell_memo_lewis/ (see also the archive at http://law.wlu.edu/deptimages/Powell%20Archives/PowellSpeechResearchAOFESMemo.pdf)
Power and justice: Duke Energy extends influence to NC courts. Facing South. The Institute for Southern Studies (article)
The new telecom oligarchs, Michael J. Copps, The Nation, April 22, 2013, 21-24. http://www.thenation.com/article/173652/new-telecom-oligarchs
Why China's corruption won't stop, by Peter Kwong. The Nation, April 22, 2013, 17-21. http://www.thenation.com/article/173653/why-chinas-corruption-wont-stop
China U., Marshall Sahlins, The Nation, Nov. 18, 2013: 36-43, http://www.thenation.com/article/176888/china-u
Saudi universities offer cash in exchange for academic prestige. New Focus. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1344-1345. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1344.full
Two Saudi institutions are aggressively acquiring the affiliations of overseas scientists with an eye to gaining visibility in research journals.
Shaking up science. Two journal editors take a hard look at honesty in science and question the ethos of their profession. Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. NewFocus. Science 25 Jan 2013;339:385-389. "The 99%, the majority of scientists, are really driven by fear." There is a robust correlation between a journal's impact factor and its retraction rate. Of 72 faculty members found guilty of misconduct by the NIH Office of Research Integrity, 63 were men.
Entertainment value: should the media pay for nature conservation? Paul Jepson et al. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1351-1352.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1351.full
Many films and TV shows profit by extracting value from nature without contributing their fair share to conservation funding.
Passions. Presidential Address. Alice S. Huang. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1362-1366.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1362.full
Circles USA for ending poverty, Move The Mountain (Durham effort: Herald-Sun 1/16/2013 1/15/2014
Public Health, Personal Choice, by Ryan Seals, 12/30/2013
www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2013/12/public-health-personal-choice.html
> World Affairs
Hubertus Hoffmann. What to do about the Ukrainian crisis? World Security Network (article)
Tim Shorrock. Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers. The Nation, April 15, 2013 (article)
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2014-03-10/wests-response-developments-ukraine (Case study for discussion)
> Social, institutional, and technological change
Andreas Schleicher. Making sense of rising IQ scores. Science 25 Jan 201;339:394-395. Review of James R. Flynn. Are we getting smarter? Cambridge Univ Press, 2012.
Norman R. Augustine. They never saw it coming. Editorial. Science 25 Jan 2013;339:373.
Technological changes and funding realities are driving a transformation in higher education. To control technology so as to benefit and not harm higher education, will require ..."
"When I became the chief executive of a large aerospace company, the Berlin Wall had just collapsed. Had I been told that within 6 years 40% of all people in the industry and three-fourths of its companies would be gone, I would have said, 'Not possible.' It happened."
> Sustainability
Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health
T. Lobstein, L. Baur, R. Uauy. Obesity Reviews. May 2004;5(s1):4-85
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-789X.2004.00133.x/full
Robert W. Kates et al. Sustainability science. Science 27 Aril 2001;292:641-2. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/292/5517/641.full
Fawzi Ibrahim, Capitalism versus Planet Earth. “A stark choice faces humanity: save the planet and ditch capitalism or save capitalism and ditch the planet”, http://climateandcapitalism.com/tag/fawzi-ibrahim/
R. Edward Grumbine and Maharaj K. Pandit. Threats from India's Himalaya dams. Science 4 Jan 2013;339:36-37. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/36.full) "... India's total carbon emissions are projected to more than doube by 2030" "Over the next several decades, the [Government of India] aims to construct 292 dams throughout the Indian Himalaya, doubling current hydropower capacity ..." "With millions of people losing land rights and resettled without adequate compensation, it is easy to understand why demonstrations against dams are an ongoing feature of Indian civil society." "Every neighbor of India with undeveloped hydropower sites is building or planning to build multiple dams, totaling at minimum 129 projects."
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
TED talk at http://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse.html
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/07/buffering-the-sun - engineering approaches to reducing solar influx and thereby mitigate the effects of increasing atmospheric CO2. The question itself raises all sorts of issues. Whatever one thinks about the wisdom of pursuing this avenue, we know how the decisions will be made. So our contribution may be helping students to understand how the decisions will be made and what (limited?) role public health will have.
Entrepreneurs looking for "windfall" cash in on climate change. A new book explores how melting ice yields new shipping channels, oil resources - and profits. NPR Fresh Air, Jan 28, 2014 www.npr.org/2014/01/28/267082833/entrepreneurs-looking-for-windfall-cash-in-on-climate-change
Public Health and Human Ecology, by John M. Last, 2nd ed., 1998
Can we name Earth's species before they go extinct? Mark J. Costello et al. Science 25 Jan 2013;339:413-416.
Warming climate exposes resources - and risks - in the Far North. Carla Schaffer and Edward W. Lempinen. AAAS News & Notes. Science; 25 Jan 2013;339:410-411
Global Public Health: Ecological Foundations
by Franklin White, President, Professor Lorann Stallones, John M Last, 2013
reviews
Google Books preview
Professor Klaus Schwab. The reshaping of the world. World Economic Forum blog, 17 Jan 2014
http://forumblog.org/2014/01/reshaping-world/
World Economic Forum. Global gender gap report 2013
http://www.weforum.org/reports/global-gender-gap-report-2013
> Corporate responsibility
http://blogs.sas.com/content/sascp/
http://www.stemconnector.org/SAS
https://www.facebook.com/sascurriculumpathways/timeline?filter=1
Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE)
Frank Stasio interviews Daniel Vermeer, Director of EDGE, on the State of Things
> Cognitive sciences, behavioral economics, neuroeconomics
Pelham, Brett W.; Mirenberg, Matthew C.; Jones, John T.
Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore: Implicit egotism and major life decisions.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 82(4), Apr 2002, 469-487.
http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0022-3514.82.4.469
http://scienceblogs.com/mixingmemory/2007/04/23/the-nameletter-effect-or-why-c/
Paul Dolan. Influencing behaviour: The mindspace way. LSE Online Community (article)
Henri Tajfel, Groups and Social Categories: studies in social psychology, Cambridge Univ Press, 1981, http://books.google.com/books?id=ldA8AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Henri Tajfel, Cognitive aspects of prejudice. Journal of Social Issues 1969;25: 79–97.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-4560.1969.tb00620.x/abstract
Example of suboptimal resolution of a criminal justice anomaly: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/518/transcript
danariely.com and various links in the module.
http://www.rwjf.org/en/research-publications/find-rwjf-research/2011/05/breaking-through-on-the-social-determinants-of-health-and-health.html
http://action.apha.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Obesity_Infographic
http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/reports/2010/rwjf63023
What's The Problem With Feeling On Top Of The World? Shankar Vedantam. NPR, 1/31/2014. www.wbur.org/npr/269216966/whats-the-problem-with-feeling-on-top-of-the-world
Peter Muennig et al. The effect of small class sizes on mortality through age 29 years: evidence from a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Am J Epidemiol 2011 (June 15);173(12):1468-1474.Assignment to smaller classes predicted improved cognitive outcomes but also higher mortality among males.
William C. Thompson. Rejecting the evidence. Science 4 Jan 2013;339:34-35. Review of David A. Harris, Failed evidence: why law enforcement resists science. NYU Press, 2012. "[Harris] provides rich examples of the pigheadedness and tortured logic of people confronted with inconvenient scientific findings. He also explores the underlying reasons for their resistance....focuses on cognitive bias and the pressures and incentives of the institutional environment." (link)
Jordi Quoidbach et al. The end of history illusion. Science Jan 2013;339:96-98.(http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/96.full) "The foregoing studies suggest that people underestimate the extent to which their personalities, values, and preferences will change in the future.... this end of history illusion can have practical consequences. Specifically ... people will overpay for future opportunities to indulge them."
"Who's afraid of peer review?" Science 4 Oct 2013;342:60-65, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full
What is truth and effects of media? (e.g., Radio lab quotes from Orson Wells, http://www.radiolab.org/story/91622-war-of-the-worlds/)
"Though they may be unaware, newlyweds implicitly know whether their marriage will be satisfying" James K. McNulty et al. Science 29 Nov 2013;342:1119-1120. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6162/1119.full Supplementary online material: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2013/11/26/342.6162.1119.DC1/McNulty.SM.pdf
"Siblings we know and love - usually". Nancy L. Segal. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1349-1350. Review of Jeffrey Kluger, The sibling effect: what the bonds among brothers and sisters reveal about us. NY, Riverhead, 2011.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1349.full
Real risk vs. perceived risk
http://harvardmagazine.com/2013/07/the-social-life-of-memory - a short article summarizing research published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests that the brain uses areas devoted to memory in order to make behavioral predictions. I’m not sure about implications, but I thought I’d tack this link on.
Empathy, e.g. "I Don't Feel Your Pain: A failure of empathy perpetuates racial disparities." By Jason Silverstein, Slate (link)
Capacity Building Helps Pastoral Women Transform Impoverished Communities in Ethiopia. D. Layne Coppock, et al. Science 9 December 2011:1394-1398.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1394.full
Diversification of income-producing activities provides greater resilience to drought.
Irrationality in health care: what behavioral economics reveals about what we do and why. Douglas E. Hough. Stanford Univ Press, 2013. (review in Science 11 Oct 2013;342:196)
Shankar Vedantam. "The power of political misinformation". Washington Post, September 15, 2008 (link)
"a series of new experiments show that misinformation can exercise a ghostly influence on people's minds after it has been debunked -- even among people who recognize it as misinformation. In some cases, correcting misinformation serves to increase the power of bad information."
Shankar Vedantam, The hidden brain: how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives. Reviewed by Susan Pinker, "The out-of-sight mind". NY Times, 1/14/2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Pinker-t.html
Science 4 Oct 2013;342:53) “A risky science communication environment for vaccines, Dan M. Kahan. "One recurring source of risk controversy is a dynamic known as 'cultural cognition.' Both to avoid dissonance and to protect their ties to others, individuals face a strong psychic pressure to conform their perceptions of risk to those that distinguish their group from competing ones - a bias in reasoning that can actually intensity as the public becomes more science literate (2)." (p53) “Neglecting the science of science communication puts the value of decision-relevant science at risk” "public controversy over decision-relevant science [arise from] The failure of democratic societies to use scientific information to protect the science communication environment from influences that prevent citizens from recognizing that decision-relevant science contributes to their well-being." (p54)
Morals and markets, Armin Falk and Nora Szech. Science 10 May 2013;340:707-711, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6133/707.full "It is a pervasive feature of market interaction to impose costs on uninvolved third parties.... The risk of moral decay through market interaction has been discussed in politics, ethics, and in the social sciences (1-7).... The relationship between markets and values has received attention both in theoretical work (10,11) and in empirical cross-sectional studies that compare the level of prosociality across different market societies and cultures (12-14).... we implemented a controlled environment for randomly assigning subjects to different institutions ... shows that market interaction causally affects the willingness to accept severe, negative consequences for a third party." p707 "it has been shown that material primes or labels reduce helpfulness or prosocial behavior and increase competitiveness (29-31) and that an economics background correlates with selfishness (32). Hence, the impact of markets on moral behavior may in general be even more pronounced than our study suggests." p710 "Out findings therefore suggest that appealing to morality has only a limited potential for alleviating negative market externalities." p710
A positive example? Pollution, Politics, and Vultures. Andrew Balmford. Science 8 Feb 2013;339:653-654
Can integration tame conflicts? Lorenz Goette and Stephan Meier. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1356-1357.
Context modularity of human altruism. Marcus Alexander and Fotini Christia. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1392-1394.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1392.full
Ethnic integration enhances cooperative behavior and sanctioning of free-riders.
http://www.thenation.com/article/160949/new-economy-movement
> News, analysis, and the media:
http://alaindebotton.com/news-users-manual (http://alaindebotton.com/)
Interview with Owen Bennett-Jones broadcast on 2/7/2014 AM on BBC World News is good basis for a discussion. Some of the same points are made on:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03srfgs/Start_the_Week_Spying_and_Surveillance_The_Snowden_Files/ (Alain de Botton starts at about 35 minutes)
For discussions: Diane Rehm Show, Weekly News Round-up (e.g., 3/7/2014)
Thoughts on awareness, cognition, and consciousness
Carl Hart. High Price. A neuroscientist's journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society. (website) (Young Turks interview, 50 min.)
("But later research by Hart and others showed that crack was not particularly addictive, nor did it make users more impulsive or violent, leading him to a revelation: although drugs can exacerbate social problems, they are rarely the cause. Hart’s account of rising from the projects to the ivory tower is as poignant as his call to change the way society thinks about race, drugs and poverty." —Scientific American, June 2013)
Everything you need to know about drugs. All In with Chris Hayes / Society, MSNBC, 3/5/2014 (program). Includes:
www.brainfacts.org - about the brain
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran: The Neurons that Shaped Civilization. TED, 1 Nov 2009, http://www.brainfacts.org/brain-basics/neuroanatomy/articles/2013/vs-ramachandran-the-neurons-that-shaped-civilization/ - mirror neurons
Early brain development briefing (co-hosted by AAAS and the Dana Foundation on Capitol Hill, June 12, 2012): Early Brain Development, Early Education, and the Development of Executive Function Skills (James A. Griffin) (watch) (pdf), Effects of poverty on brain development (Martha J. Farah) (watch) (pdf)
Daniel J. Siegel. Brainstorm: the power and purpose of the teenage brain. Penguin/Tarcher, 2013. Diane Rehm Show, Interview (SmartPlanet)
David Brooks, The Social Animal, TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/david_brooks_the_social_animal.html (starts in earnest at minute 7)
Color (Radio Lab): Is color something that exists apart from our minds? In a world in which 99% of people are "color blind" and 1% have "normal" color vision, would those with "normal" vision be regarded as hallucinogenic?
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/
The politics of disgust, Frank Stasio interviews psychologist David Pizarro on The State of Things. David Pizarro publications.
Carmelia M. Kuhnen. Neuroeconomics (quick summary) (journal articles) (1/31/2014 interview with Frank Stasio on The State of Things)
‘Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness. www.digitaljournal.com/article/351347
Studying Human Behavior: How scientists investigate aggression and sexuality, by Helen E. Longino (reviewed in Science 12 April 2013;340)
Jin-Hee Han et al. Selective erasure of a fear memory. Science 13 March 2009;323:1492-1496. "Selectively deleting neurons overexpressing CREBZ ... after learning blocked expression of that fear memory . . . causal link between a specific neuronal subpopulation and memory expression" (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5920/1492.full)
Mild fasting facilitated long term memory (LTM) formation in Drosophila. Flies use distinct LTM machinery depending on their hunger state. Ykinori Hirano et al. Fasting launches CRTC to facilitate long-term memory formation in Drosophila. Science 25 Jan 2013;339:443-448. Also, Pierre-Yves Placais and Thomas Preat. To favor survival under food shortage, the brain disables costly memory. Science 25 Jan 2013;339:440-442.
Kareem A. Zaghloul et al. Human substantia nigra neurons encode unexpected financial rewards. Science 13 March 2009;323:1496-1499. (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/323/5920/1496.full)
G. Elliott Wimmer and Daphna Shohamy. Preference by association: how memory mechanisms in the hippocampus bias decisions. Science 12 Oct 2012;338:270- http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6104/270.full.html (“The uncovering of a neural mechanism by which associative memory biases decision-making sheds light on how value generalizes across experience, with implications for both adaptive behaviors and maladaptive behaviors such as addiction.”)
J. Sallet et al. Social network size affects neural circuits in macaques. Science 4 Nov 2011; 334:697-700, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6056.toc
Fei Wang et al. Bidirectional control of social hierarchy by synaptic efficacy in medial prefrontal cortex. Science 4 Nov 2011;334:693-697, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6056.toc
Science 13 May 2011;332:793. Review of: Braintrust What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality by Patricia S. Churchland Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2011. http://www.sciencemag.org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/332/6031/793.full
*Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function. Anandi Mani, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir, Jiaying Zhao
Science 30 August 2013;341:976-980 (link) Commentary at http://www.sciencemag.org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/341/6149/969.full
Protective and Damaging Effects of Mediators of Stress and Adaptation
Bruce McEwen, PhD, (1 hour)
The brain is the central organ of stress because it interprets what is stressful and also determines the behavioral and physiological responses. This results in an allostatic load that reflects a chronic burden on the body and the brain. Adverse early life events, especially in childhood, produce long-lasting effects on the brain and body. During this session, the concepts of “biological embedding” and “cumulative burden” will be discussed in terms of the allostatic load mode.
http://www.cdnetwork.org/NewCDN/LibraryView.aspx?ID=cdn527
Effects of Toxoplasma on Human Behavior, Jaroslav Flegr. Schizophr Bull (2007) 33 (3): 757-760.
Induction of changes in human behaviour by the parasitic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, Jaroslav Flegr et al. Parasitology / Volume 113 / Issue 01 / July 1996, pp 49-54.
Can the common brain parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, influence human culture?, Kevin D. Lafferty. Proc. R. Soc. B 7 November 2006 vol. 273 no. 1602 2749-2755.
Video game training enhances cognitive control in older adults, J. A. Anguera, J. Boccanfuso, J. L. Rintoul, et al. Nature 05 September 2013;501:97–101
Do economic recessions during early and mid-adulthood influence cognitive function in older age? Anja K. Leist, Philipp Hessel, Mauricio Avendano. J Epidemiol Community Health 2014;68:151-158 (Link)
Diane Rehm interview with Daniel Goleman about his book on FocusPharmaceuticals (e.g., People's Pharmacy, 923 Surviving Pharmageddon)
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/organization/dnbbs/behavioral-science-and-integrative-neuroscience-research-branch/index.shtml
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/advisory-boards-and-groups/namhc/reports/bbbs-research.pdf
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-13-374.html
Neuroscience (news): "Brain stimulation sparks 'Machiavellian' choices", Elizabeth Culotta. Science 4 Oct 2013;342:25.
News Focus, Neuroscience: The Promise and Perils of Oxytocin, Greg Miller, Science 18 Jan 2013;339:267.
http://www.sciencemag.org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/content/339/6117/267.full
The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans
Science 11 Jun 2010;328:1408-1411
www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5984/1408.full?sid=4829b075-1ede-4e0e-80ac-ea3ae310caa6
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality. Zoe R. Donaldson, Larry J. Young. Science 7 November 2008;322:900-904
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5903/900.full
Empathy and the laws of affect. Jack Panksepp. Perspective on Bartal et al. Science 9 Dec 2011;334:1358-1359.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1358.full
Can animal models provide insights into human empathy and promote nurturance?
Empathy and Pro-Social Behavior in Rats. Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal, Jean Decety, Peggy Mason. Science 9 December 2011;334:1427-1430
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427.full (video feature)
Heavy Drinking in Middle Age May Speed Memory Loss by up to Six Years in Men. Séverine Sabia et al. Neurology.
https://www.aan.com/PressRoom/Home/PressRelease/1233
Past hormone therapy in older women: Does the brain recover from adverse effects?
Kantarci, Kejal MD, MS; Maki, Pauline M. Editorial.
Neurology 4 Feb 2014;82(5):380-381
http://www.neurology.org/content/82/5/380.extract
Even Without a Diagnosis, Psychiatric Symptoms Affect Work Outcomes. Kajal Lahiri,et al. Medical Care. February 2014. News release:
http://www.wolterskluwerhealth.com/News/Pages/Even-Without-a-Diagnosis,-Psychiatric-Symptoms-Affect-Work-Outcomes.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ_-ZhIm43s (text-to-speech with animation)
Assorted notes on biology and behavior
Aaron Schurger et al., Reproducibility distinguishes conscious from nonconscious neural representations. Science 1 Jan 2010;327:97-
War as illness: http://apps.nlm.nih.gov/againsttheodds/exhibit/legacy_of_war/war_as_illness.cfm
Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel T. Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson
The End of History Illusion
Science 4 January 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6115 pp. 96-98
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6115/96
“Young people, middle-aged people, and older people all believed they had changed a lot in the past but would change relatively little in the future. People, it seems, regard the present as a watershed moment at which they have finally become the person they will be for the rest of their lives. This “end of history illusion” had practical consequences, leading people to overpay for future opportunities to indulge their current preferences.”
Kathleen D. Vohs, Nicole L. Mead, Miranda R. Goode
The Psychological Consequences of Money
Science 17 November 2006;314:1154 - 1156
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/314/5802/1154
The results of nine experiments suggest that money brings about a self-sufficient orientation in which people prefer to be free of dependency and dependents. Reminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to reduced requests for help and reduced helpfulness toward others. Relative to participants primed with neutral concepts, participants primed with money preferred to play alone, work alone, and put more physical distance between themselves and a new acquaintance.
Although I’ve not yet read the articles themselves, I found an intriguing exchange of letters in the 11 August 2006 issue of Science (vol 313, pp760-761) debating the article “On making the right choice: the deliberation-without-attention effect” (AP Dijksterhuis et al., Science 17 Feb 2006, p.1005). The article claimed to have observed that under complex decision circumstances, unconscious thinkers made better decisions than did conscious deliberators. In their response to a critical letter, the authors suggest that “the idea that conscious deliberation before making decisions is always good is simply one of those illusions consciousness creates for us.” (11 Aug 2006, p760) (Abstract)
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Epigenetics: The Controversial Science Behind Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, by Janell Ross, National Journal, March 20, 2014. (article)
A fascinating article in Science (Joshua M. Ackerman et al. Incidental haptic sensations influence social judgments and decisions 25 June 2010;328:1712-1715) reports that “In six experiments, holding heavy or light clipboards, solving rough or smooth puzzles, and touching hard or soft objects nonconsciously influenced impressions and decisions formed about unrelated people and situations. Among other effects, heavy objects made job candidates appear more important, rough objects made social interactions appear more difficult, and hard objects increased rigidity in negotiations. Basic tactile sensations are thus shown to influence higher social cognitive processing in dimension-specific and metaphor-specific ways.” (Abstract) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1712.full
The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans
Science 11 Jun 2010;328:1408-1411
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5984/1408.full
Humans regulate intergroup conflict through parochial altruism; they self-sacrifice to contribute to in-group welfare and to aggress against competing out-groups. Parochial altruism has distinct survival functions, and the brain may have evolved to sustain and promote in-group cohesion and effectiveness and to ward off threatening out-groups. Here, we have linked oxytocin, a neuropeptide produced in the hypothalamus, to the regulation of intergroup conflict. In three experiments using double-blind placebo-controlled designs, male participants self-administered oxytocin or placebo and made decisions with financial consequences to themselves, their in-group, and a competing out-group. Results showed that oxytocin drives a “tend and defend” response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups.
Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality
Zoe R. Donaldson, Larry J. Young.
Science 7 November 2008;322:900-904
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5903/900.full
There is growing evidence that the neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin modulate complex social behavior and social cognition. These ancient neuropeptides display a marked conservation in gene structure and expression, yet diversity in the genetic regulation of their receptors seems to underlie natural variation in social behavior, both between and within species. Human studies are beginning to explore the roles of these neuropeptides in social cognition and behavior and suggest that variation in the genes encoding their receptors may contribute to variation in human social behavior by altering brain function. Understanding the neurobiology and neurogenetics of social cognition and behavior has important implications, both clinically and for society.
Lost sleep leads to loss of brain cells, study suggests, Helen Briggs. BBC News, 19 March 2014 (BBC News report) (study abstract)
Protein May Hold the Key to Who Gets Alzheimer’s, Pam Belluck, NY Times, March 19, 2014 (article)
Changing Social Norm Compliance with Noninvasive Brain Stimulation
Science 25 Oct 2013:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6157/482.abstract
All known human societies have maintained social order by enforcing compliance with social norms. The biological mechanisms underlying norm compliance are, however, hardly understood. We show that the right lateral prefrontal cortex (rLPFC) is involved in both voluntary and sanction-induced norm compliance. Both types of compliance could be changed by varying the neural excitability of this brain region with transcranial direct current stimulation, but they were affected in opposite ways, suggesting that the stimulated region plays a fundamentally different role in voluntary and sanction-based compliance. Brain stimulation had a particularly strong effect on compliance in the context of socially constituted sanctions, whereas it left beliefs about what the norm prescribes and about subjectively expected sanctions unaffected. Our findings suggest that rLPFC activity is a key biological prerequisite for an evolutionarily and socially important aspect of human behavior.
The Neural Basis of Economic Decision-Making in the Ultimatum Game
Science 13 June 2003; 300:1755-1758
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/300/5626/1755.full
The nascent field of neuroeconomics seeks to ground economic decisionmaking in the biological substrate of the brain. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging of Ultimatum Game players to investigate neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processes involved in economic decision-making. In this game, two players split a sum of money; one player proposes a division and the other can accept or reject this. We scanned players as they responded to fair and unfair proposals. Unfair offers elicited activity in brain areas related to both emotion (anterior insula) and cognition (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). Further, significantly heightened activity in anterior insula for rejected unfair offers suggests an important role for emotions in decision-making.
Causal Control of Medial–Frontal Cortex Governs Electrophysiological and Behavioral Indices of Performance Monitoring and Learning. Robert M. G. Reinhart and Geoffrey F. Woodman. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4214-4227 (abstract)
The Good, the Bad, and the Just: Justice Sensitivity Predicts Neural Response during Moral Evaluation of Actions Performed by Others. Keith J. Yoder1 and Jean Decety.
The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4161-4166 (abstract)
Neural Correlates of Personal Space Intrusion. Daphne J. Holt et al. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4123-4134 (abstract)
Memory Reactivation in Healthy Aging: Evidence of Stimulus-Specific Dedifferentiation. Marie St-Laurent et al. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4175-4186 (article)
Neural Control of Vascular Reactions: Impact of Emotion and Attention. Hadas Okon-Singer, et al. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4251-4259 (article)
Extended Wakefulness: Compromised Metabolics in and Degeneration of Locus Ceruleus Neurons. Jing Zhang, et al. The Journal of Neuroscience, 19 March 2014, 34(12): 4418-4431 (article)
Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation, Martin A. Nowak
Science 8 December 2006;314: 1560-1563
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/314/5805/1560.full
Cooperation is needed for evolution to construct new levels of organization. Genomes, cells, multicellular organisms, social insects, and human society are all based on cooperation. Cooperation means that selfish replicators forgo some of their reproductive potential to help one another. But natural selection implies competition and therefore opposes cooperation unless a specific mechanism is at work. Here I discuss five mechanisms for the evolution of cooperation: kin selection, direct reciprocity, indirect reciprocity, network reciprocity, and group selection. For each mechanism, a simple rule is derived that specifies whether natural selection can lead to cooperation.
Evolution: Carl R. Woese (1928-2012), by Nigel Goldenfeld and Norman R. Pace. Science 8 Feb 2013;339:661
Evolution for everyone: how Darwin's theory can change the way we think about our lives. David Sloan Wilson. Delacorte Press, 2007.
"Physical laws shape biology". Letter. Kumar Selvarajoo and Masaru Tomita. Science 8 Feb 2013;339:646, responding to C. Furusawa and K. Kaneko, 12 Oct 2012 p215 "A dynamical-systems view of stem cell biology"
"If the results of these experiments turn out to reinforce the proton size puzzle, then it could become necessary to question the foundations of the world's most precise and best-tested fundamental physical theory, QED itself." p406. How big is the proton? Helen S. Margolis. Science 25 Jan 2013;339:405-406
Journey to the Stars (video), http://www.journeytothestars.org/jtts.php , narrated by Whoopi Goldberg
Powers of Ten (video)
Arbe Traulsen. From matter to self-organizing life. Science 4 Oct 2013;342:39. Review of Manfred Eigen, From strange simplicity to complex familiarity: a treatise on matter, information, life, and thought. Oxford Univ 2013. “Eigen argues that physical laws govern chemistry. Chemistry leads to the combinatorial possibilities of molecular biology. This complexity allows the emergence of evolution and the origin of life.”
The other evolution wars. Creationists have long battled with geologists and biologists, but they have only lately taken on physicists and cosmologists. American Scientist Nov-Dec 2007;95:518-523. Also in that issue, Evolution - once more, with feeling. Robert T. Pennock. Review of Darwin loves you: natural selection and the re-enchantment of the world, George Levine, and Evolution for everyone: how Darwin's theory can change the way we think about our lives. by David Sloan Wilson.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/stephen-hawkings-blunder-on-black-holes-shows-danger-of-listening-to-scientists-says-bachmann.html?mobify=0http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/stephen-hawkings-blunder-on-black-holes-shows-danger-of-listening-to-scientists-says-bachmann.html?mobify=0
New methods: Systems dynamic modeling
Kristen Hassmiller Lich. A Basic Primer on System Dynamics(SD) Modeling
http://obssr.od.nih.gov/issh/2012/files/SDPrimer_HassmillerLich_FINAL.pdf
New interventions:
Utah is ending homelessness by giving people homes. Nation of Change, Jan 21, 2014.
http://www.nationofchange.org/utah-ending-homelessness-giving-people-homes-1390056183
New interventions: TM/SCI
http://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/
http://www.cidafoundation.org/
Fred Travis, David A.F. Haaga, John Hagelin, et al. Effects of Transcendental Meditation practice on brain functioning and stress reactivity in college students. International Journal of Psychophysiology 2009 (Feb);71(2):170–176. http://www.sciencedirect.com.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/science/article/pii/S0167876008008088 (video - 2:20)
Conciousness, creativity, and the brain (Bob Roth, David Lynch, Fred Travis [1:28]
Students
David L. Kirp. Meditation transforms roughest San Francisco schools. SF Gate, January 12, 2014 (article)
Dan Schreiber. Meditation program mends troubled Visitacion Valley Middle School. The San Francisco Examiner, May 8, 2011 (article)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nk88T7ps4A [0:55] - Graduate student testimonial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGcLl0LhfcE [2:03] - Schools
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUZRIX_SlHU [6:33] - Arizona high school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hi9CWd4mdo - Visitacion Valley Middle School (another video from this school is "unlisted")
Chang, Walter, et al. "Academic achievement and transcendental meditation: a study with at-risk urban middle school students." Education 131.3 (2011): 556+. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 Mar. 2014. (article)Colbert, Robert D. "Effect of the transcendental meditation program on graduation, college acceptance and dropout rates for students attending an urban public high school." Education 133.4 (2013): 495+. Academic OneFile. Web. 5 Mar. 2014. (article)
Charles Elder, Sanford Nidich, Francis Moriarty, Randi Nidich. Effect of Transcendental Meditation on Employee Stress, Depression, and Burnout: A Randomized Controlled Study. The Permanente Journal/ Winter 2014/ Volume 18 No. 1. (article)
Corrections
Rainforth MV, Bleick C, Alexander CN, Cavanaugh KL. The Transcendental Meditation program and criminal recidivism in Folsom State Prisoners: A 15-year follow-up study. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 2003;36:181-204.
Alexander CN, Rainforth MV, Frank PR, Grant JD, Von Stade C, Walton KG. Walpole study of the Transcendental Meditation program in maximum security prisoners III: Reduced recidivism. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 2003;36(3):161-180.
Bleick CR, Abrams AI. The Transcendental Meditation program and criminal recidivism in California. Journal of Criminal Justice. 1987;15(3):211-230. (article)
Military / veterans / PTSD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ki4c-XkYsM [2:24]
http://dlf.tv/2013/platoon-sergeant-gets-her-life-back-with-transcendental-meditation/ [3:35]
http://dlf.tv/2013/platoon-sergeant-gets-her-life-back-with-transcendental-meditation/ [5:50]
http://dlf.tv/2011/oww-tour/ - Operation Warrior Wellness Tour
http://dlf.tv/2011/children-of-the-night/ - In this video, several of the girls open up about what life was like for them on the street and their experience practicing Transcendental Meditation. Founder of Children of the Night, Dr Lois Lee, also talks about the incredible change she sees taking place in these girls as they begin to wake up from their nightmares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiavHpXdn-U - Homeless men
Business:
http://www.tmbusiness.org/ (videos)
http://leadersportfolio.com/archives/1778
http://www.tmbusiness.org/video_popups/webinar_09_jeffrey.html
http://www.towercompanies.com/
Russell Simmons, Super Rich (interview) (2:45), (interview) (4:45)
John Hagelin. Consciousness and Superstring Unified Field Theory, How knowledge is lost, The Observer. (Part 1, 10 min; Part 2, 8 min).
The University of Arizona, Center for Consciousness Studies, http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
Bernard J. Baars and friends, Conscious Conversations, https://sites.google.com/site/conseminar/
REVERB: Campus Consciousness Tour (about)
William James. The varieties of religious experience. (PDF)
Vic's other notes: