Sarah Owen
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Sarah is a trend forecaster, futurist and social scientist with a background in studying youth culture and social media.
Sarah Owen
The emotional era:Are technologies changing how we feel?
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emotion and Technology
“What’s aspirational has changed,” says Beth McGroarty, research director at the nonprofit Global Wellness Institute. Pressures to be perfectly happy, beautiful, and “healthy” are being replaced with a more realistic, relaxed, and less consumerist culture.
Rex Woodbury • The Goop-ification of wellness is on the way out (you can thank Gen Z)
University of Cambridge researchers successfully used algae to power a computer chip for six months. The blue-green algae perform photosynthesis and generate a small electrical current that “interacts with an aluminum electrode and is used to power a microprocessor,” according to an official release.
Researchers Use Algae to Power a Computer for Months
Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté is a sought after expert on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. In this brilliant episode of Pulling the Thread , he discusses various themes revolving around the relationship between stress and illness, a subject he's clinically explored over the course of four decades.
Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen em Apple Podcasts
A new paper by Harvard found that:
Dylan Matthews • The great millennial migration that wasn’t
"The society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise was founded by a physician named Julia Barnett Rice in 1906. Rice believed noise was unhealthy, and enlisted New York City’s gentry (including Mark Twain) to lobby for things like rules governing steamboat whistles, and silence pledges from children who played near hospitals."
Xochitl Gonzalez • Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?
British brand The Unseen is pushing hair technology forward with a heat-reactive dye that changes color in a matter of minutes.
Input Magazine • The Unseen releases holographic, heat-activated hair dye
Within the tranquil Porta Vittoria neighborhood in Milan, Italy, the European Library of Information and Culture (BEIC) proposal by noa* is intended to serve as a center for creation that inspires and liberates the mind. Titled ‘the Tree of Knowledge’, the project was flanked by the development of a natural landscape that permeates all spaces,... See more
noa* tops library concept in milan with organic roof ring + blossoming park
Social psychologists have known for decades that people are motivated to work harder when others are watching. When they are observed, people run faster, are more creative, and think harder about problems.