One aspect of Buddhism is the intense focus on a small object. This is practice is said to lead to enlightenment—except when demonstrated by people on the autism spectrum.
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Conference Sessions in Motion
My LinkedIn feed has been filling me with green-eyed envy because so many of my connections attended the International Back and Neck Pain Forum this week in Davos, Switzerland.
The organizers got creative and held multiple parallel sessions of presentations while hiking trails in the Swiss Alps! From what I can tell, there were varied levels of difficulty and distance, and many ended at a restaurant or other scenic site.
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Mark Twain’s particular style of humor
Reading Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii was a surprising departure from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The travel writing made me appreciate the author’s unique style of disarming humor.
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As clueless as Mark Twain
I'm not the only fool to mistake holy water for decor.
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Ordinal decades and axis anchoring
Something about this tweet about decreases in muscle strength for aging women felt off. Surely accelerated muscle decline couldn’t occur that early, could it?
Or could a classic mistake in chart design lead to an error while misinterpreting the data and communicating the results?
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Ready vs. Willing
We often talk about not being “ready” to take a big action.
Any therapist or coach will ask us “Are you ever truly ready?”
What we really mean when we say we’re not ready is that we’re not yet willing…
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PredicTER is an open source tool that allows you to estimate the time it will take to conduct a systematic review based on various criteria.
Time requirements for conducting a systematic review
I’ve always wondered what it would take to conduct a systematic review, and while watching these videos thought it might be an interesting experiment to conduct a small one on my own, just to learn the process and see what it’s like to use some of the tools.
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