While Americans were celebrating their Thanksgiving holiday on Thursday, giving thanks for the blessings they had received during the previous year, the newly named Omicron variant of the SARS-Cov-2 virus pushed the dangerous Delta variant out of the headlines as it spread across eight nations in Africa and from there to Israel and other nations around the world. Continue reading
The short answer is just about everywhere. A survey of death records from the early part of the pandemic, from March 1 to August 1 of 2020 analyzed the death rate in the states and compared that with what could be expected, based on prior year death data. Prior to the pandemic, such analyses were highly accurate, which led to a high degree of confidence that any excess deaths during Covid time would largely be due either to Covid-19 itself, or due to other causes of death that were amplified by the stress on the medical system due to Covid-19, as well as people’s reluctance to expose themselves to Covid by seeking help for other ailments, thus resulting in fatalities. Continue reading
Reaching goals and developing new habits may sound daunting. Nevertheless, recent advances in neuroscience, positive physcology and mindfulness offer terrific support, insights and new practices.
Studies suggest only 8% of Americans who make resolutions actually keep them, and 80% fail by February 1st. As a life-long exerciser, I witness this phenomena every January at the gym. Continue reading
Last week I talked about the cognitive decline that so often comes with aging. I mentioned new research into a mechanism that not only halts, but even reverses that decline, restoring the mental powers of old mice to what they had been when they were much younger. This is great for mice, and the mechanism might just possibly work in humans too. You can bet the researchers will be proposing research with human subjects soon. It would be nice to be able to extend the mental health of your pet mouse, but it would be even nicer to be able to extend the mental health of your grandmother. Continue reading
Bruce is an active company director and audit committee chair. He is a well-respected transformational leader with deep and broad professional governance, risk, compliance and audit experience. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 2015 in recognition of his significant service to public administration through governance and risk management practices, and to the profession of internal auditing.