Health
A Marriage from Hell
Written by: Akif Aliyev Its 9am on a March morning when I wake up and instinctively roll to my side, pick up my phone and begin...
Continue reading...My attempt to change my relationship with the internet and the digital world
Thoughts on Mental Health on the WWW
An estimated 1.1 billion people are affected by mental or substance use disorders worldwide. A critical aspect of these disorders is that the majority have their...
Continue reading...Forced social media use
The benefits and downsides were already spoken of a lot in my previous blog posts. This blog post in not necessarily about a negative or positive...
Continue reading...You’ll close your eyes to the pictures, the memories and eventually the facts
Since the existence of image-based journalism and the overall rise in various media formats, we have become oversaturated with images. This in itself does not have...
Continue reading...Smartphones? try a little less
More and more scientists say that social media and smartphones are highly addictive. They say that notifications etc. are causing receptors to release dopamine in the...
Continue reading...Intuitive Eating (of Social Media Feeds)
The Context Social media platforms bring about so many opportunities for enhanced global connection and access, and yet I often feel very passive on these platforms....
Continue reading...“Mind-reading” technology
Just have a look at the following picture: What do you think is happening here? One might think that the pictures depicted show how an Artificial...
Continue reading...Cloudy With a Chance of Brains
Waking up dead tired on a dreary Saturday morning is never fun, but even more so in November. The sky is grey and it never seems...
Continue reading...What Gets Measured Gets Managed
Nowadays more and more young people become conscious of their health. Health is wealth and it is hard to maintain it in a good condition in...
Continue reading...“OK, boomer” Vol. 2: Climate Change Kills
On my way to Leiden I witnessed a conversation that literally made the hairs in my neck stand up, much akin to a pissed off cat....
Continue reading...“OK boomer” Vol. 1: Pride Comes Before the Fall
The other day I went shopping in a garden centre. You know, one of those very large ones that require a map to navigate. Why I...
Continue reading...Digital Media As An Accelerator Of Perfectionism
Can you remember when you first heard of the concept, ‘mental health’? (I can’t.) I don’t remember being informed about mental health, its examples and potential...
Continue reading...Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.
Pop a tab, slip under an MRI and what you would see might surprise you. Brain networks that normally handle vision, attention, movement and hearing communicate...
Continue reading...The Scale of the Greta-Effect
Today, on September 23rd, the United Nations Climate Action Summit is currently taking place in New York City following a weekend of global protests like never...
Continue reading...Get fit with Wii Fit
I like Pokémon Go. It forces me to go outside in order to play and I personally find that a good thing. A side effect of...
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