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“Is coffee associated with the risk of death from all causes? … Both [studies] found that drinking coffee was associated with a significantly reduced chance of death. I can’t think of any other product that has this much positive epidemiologic evidence going for it.” – Aaron Carroll

Links from Episode 1: Coffee

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/upshot/more-consensus-on-coffees-benefits-than-you-might-think.html

https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/health/coffee-healthy-food-drayer/index.html

“Men were found to spend 85 minutes a day on dating apps, averaging 9.7 minutes each session. Whereas women spend 79 minutes a day on dating apps, typically browsing for 7.6 minutes each session to find a potential suitor.” – Jack Peat

Links from Episode 2: Dating Apps

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/dating-apps-millenials-10-hours-per-week-tinder-bumble-romance-love-a8174006.html

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/em-and-lo/datings-dead-long-live-th_b_9574582.html

https://www.bolde.com/dating-millennial-screwed/

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-younger-millennials-are-really-using-dating-apps-today-51709

“Up until this point, most of their shared Hollywood narrative has been defined by the ‘ups’ more than the ‘downs.’ Their careers flourished, they have been nominated for (and won) more gold statues, they became some of the most-watched stars in the industry. And through all that, their bromance was the favorite topic of the public.” – Seija Rankin, on Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Links from Episode 3: Old Friends

https://www.eonline.com/news/898058/inside-ben-affleck-and-matt-damon-s-enduring-friendship-how-they-survived-scandal-heartbreak-and-tabloid-fodder

https://triblive.com/aande/moreaande/14266716-74/review-the-simon-garfunkel-story-a-fitting-tribute-to-the-legendary-duo

“You have all these things that aren’t accessible to other people … You don’t really necessarily have to answer to anybody [except at] work, who’s telling you you’re great and fabulous all the time because they need you. And you have all this money and sometimes you don’t always know what to do with it.” – Anneliese Van Der Pool

Links from Episode 4: The Disney Effect

https://nypost.com/2017/03/11/burned-by-fallen-princesses-disney-is-training-stars-to-avoid-scandal/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/6861453/disney-curse/

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/11/the-disney-nickelodeon-melt-down-club_n_1935314.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/9-shocking-teen-star-meltdowns-21004/

“Contemplative traditions claim that compassion can be enhanced with meditation training, and that this results in greater real world altruistic behavior. In compassion training, compassion is cultivated toward different people, including loved one, strangers, and difficult persons.” – Helen Y. Weng, et. al.

Links from Episode 5: Is the Grinch a Nihilist?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3713090/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201805/compassion-is-muscle-gets-stronger-training

“Although self-control conflicts are pervasive, they are not inherent in pursuing long-term goals and delayed rewards need not come at a cost to the immediate experience. Indeed, whenever people are intrinsically motivated to pursue activities that are associated with long-term goals, they receive immediate and delayed rewards from the same action, and pursuing long-term goals no longer poses a self-control conflict.” – Kaitlin Woolley and Ayelet Fishbach, U of Chicago

Links from Episode 6: New Year’s Resolutions

https://www.bhg.com.au/how-many-people-fail-new-years-resolutions

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-new-years-resolutions-dont-work_us_5a442db2e4b06cd2bd03ddfd

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-psychology-behind-why-we-cant-keep-new-years-resolutions-2018-1

https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind-and-body/top-10-reasons-you-dont-stick-your-resolutions

https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/2015-12-29/why-80-percent-of-new-years-resolutions-fail

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ayelet.fishbach/research/Woolley&FishbachPSPB.pdf

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal

Links from Episode 7: Self-Reflection

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/people-would-rather-be-electrically-shocked-left-alone-their-thoughts

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-benefits-of-daydreaming-170189213/

https://www.fastcompany.com/40590199/this-is-the-most-underrated-skill-youll-probably-never-get-taught

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amymorin/2017/08/05/7-science-backed-reasons-you-should-spend-more-time-alone/#b7abfe81b7ee

“The tattoo has long hovered in a space between the cosmetic and the punitive. Throughout its history, the status of the tattoo has been complicated by its dual association with slavery and penal practices on the one hand and exotic or forbidden sexuality on the other.” – from the abstract of “Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History” edited by Jane Caplan

Links from Episode 8: Tattoos

https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6922.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/psychology-of-tattoos_b_2017530

Alasdair MacIntyre Lecture

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/the-identity-crisis-under-the-ink/382785/

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-7-best-6-worst-places-on-your-body-to-get-a-tattoo-according-to-tattoo-artists-9637556

http://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/10/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1740144511000507

“According to a recent study from Project: Time Off, the average time a worker took off in 2017 was 17.2 days, and more than half didn’t use all of their allotted days. That’s a shame. Americans taking all or most of their vacation days to travel report dramatically higher rates of happiness than those using little to none of their time for travel, the study found.” – Jill Schlesinger of the Chicago Tribune

Links from Episode 9: Vacation Time

https://projecttimeoff.com/reports/state-of-american-vacation-2018/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-201808091630–tms–retiresmctnrs-a20180810-20180810-story.html

https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/millennials-dont-take-vacation-time

https://www.cheatsheet.com/money-career/the-top-5-reasons-people-dont-use-their-vacation-days.html/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateashford/2017/05/31/vacation/#2fa7a22c726a

http://fortune.com/2018/07/11/linkedin-summer-vacation-travel/

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/arts-and-culture/photos/countries-with-the-most-vacation-time

“The distribution of the 33 female senior characters varied by year, with 13 (39.4%) in 2014 movies, 16 (48.5%) in 2015 movies, but only 4 (12.1%) in 2016 movies. Clearly, 2016 is a problematic year for depictions of senior women on screen.” – Stacy L. Smith, PhD, Marc Choueiti, & Katherine Pieper, PhD