Elizabeth Svoboda After a 3-year-old named Matthew started having one seizure after another, his worried parents learned he had a chronic brain condition that was causing the convulsions. They faced an impossible decision: allow the damaging seizures to continue indefinitely, or allow surgeons to remove half of their son’s brain. They chose the latter. When […]
Ideas from Others May Prevent ‘Fixation’ on Your First Solutions
When attempting to solve problems, people often fall back on prior experiences that worked, sometimes without considering other solutions. In other words, they stay in their comfort zone, which psychologists call “fixation.” For a new study, researchers looked at what happens when new engineers attempt to design a solution on their own with no examples: […]
865,000 Women Left the Workforce Last Month
Overall, 661,000 jobs were added in the U.S. labor force between August and September — but women still left it at alarming numbers. Chabeli Carrazana Originally published by The 19th The nation’s first female recession deepened in September: More women left the labor force than the total number of jobs the country added last month. […]
Neurodiversity at Work Benefits Everyone – Why Companies Are Hiring Autistic People
Carol A Adams, Durham University Some of my favourite fictional characters include Spock and Seven of Nine from Star Trek, Dr Martin Ellingham from Doc Martin and Shaun Murphy from The Good Doctor. Apart from being brilliant at their jobs, they are all considered to be autistic by the autism community. It is no coincidence […]
Microaggressions Aren’t Just Innocent Blunders – New Research Links Them with Racial Bias
Jonathan Kanter, University of Washington A white man shares publicly that a group of Black Harvard graduates “look like gang members to me” and claims he would have said the same of white people dressed similarly. A white physician mistakes a Black physician for a janitor and says it was an honest mistake. A white […]