Standing elements (Words, Water Cooler, and Goodnight Moon) will not be all that appears here, although perhaps the front page makes it seems like that now. Daily posts will be rolling out shortly.
The site shakedown cruise was dicier than I expected, and took more time than I bargained for (but I needed to launch May 1, for obvious reasons). Plus I had to get the workflow for the standing elements straight.
Thanks for your patience!
“Anxious Worriers With This Personality Profile Had 35% Lower Mortality Risk” [StudyFinds]. Good news! For some of us, at least.
“Researchers identified a specific type of anxious personality, marked by high worry but low mood instability, that was associated with a 35% lower risk of death over 15 years compared to people with the opposite profile.
People with this personality profile, called Emotional Reactivity and Internal Stability (ERIS)], outlasted even those with the lowest neuroticism scores, despite reporting worse general health and more long-standing illnesses.
High-ERIS individuals were far less likely to smoke, more likely to exercise moderately, eat well, and seek preventive medical care, behaviors researchers believe may partly drive their survival edge.
Brain scans and genetic data suggest ERIS taps into an older, more evolutionarily conserved emotional system than general neuroticism, which is linked to more recent, human-specific brain development.”
We would like to than General Neuroticism and their army….
Comments
Heavens! Where is the fainting couch? I fear an attack of the vapours is coming on!
In our Best of All Neoliberal Worlds, neuroticism is a survival strategy, or, at the least, a coping mechanism.
Now, please excuse me as I go on about my tasks getting ready for the Early Jackpot Period.
Stay safe. Get that permagarden up to speed.
I must admit to being a Technoluddite of sorts. It takes me lots of time to “come up to speed” on any new process. Add in that I am beginning to age out… It is comforting to re-find a “safe harbour” in the eternally choppy seas of the Internets. All I ask is that our host does not burn himself out trying to accomplish too much, too quickly. Adopt the Turtle Strategy. Slow and steady wins the race. (We can argue about the “life is a race, [as in a competition,]” concept another time. Darwin and Huxley have a lot to answer for.
Stay safe.
Hail ERIS!