Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

I n 2023, the BBC released “ The Antidepressant Story ,” a film that details known, dangerous and sometimes permanent side effects associated with commonly prescribed antidepressants. The documentary features harrowing stories of former patients living with harm from SSRIs , or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. They caused persistent sexual dysfunction for a college professor in Iowa who wasn’t warned of its side effects.

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Success

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Spotify prefers to keep its employees enjoying an ultra-flexible work setup, despite the recent shift at many other companies demanding their work-from-home employees head back to the office. The Swiss firm’s HR chief has even doubled down on why the streamer wants its staff to continue with their current work dynamic, even though we’re already in what most consider to be a post-pandemic world.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 12, 2024

If you’ve been watching the Major League Baseball postseason, you’ve probably been thinking what most of us have: What’s that Strauss decal on the players’ helmets? MLB is historically and notoriously resistant to change—that is, until the past few years under Commissioner Rob Manfred. During Manfred’s tenure, the league has implemented rule changes to speed up the game and make it more exciting and has leaned into social media and “highlight” culture to engage younger audiences, all with signif

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AdminDroid

OCTOBER 12, 2024

On Day 12 of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, we’re excited to dive into essential email filtering and spam protection settings to enhance your Microsoft Secure Score. Stay tuned for the upcoming blogs in our M365 Cybersecurity blog series. Cyberattacks targeting email are constantly evolving, and the consequences of a successful attack can be devastating.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 12, 2024

As an award-winning scientist, Peter Dodge had made hundreds of flights into the eyes of hurricanes —almost 400. On Tuesday, a crew on a reconnaissance flight into Hurricane Milton helped him make one more, dropping his ashes into the storm as a lasting tribute to the longtime National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration radar specialist and researcher. “It’s very touching,” Dodge’s sister, Shelley Dodge, said in an interview Thursday with the Associated Press. “

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Science writer John Horgan interviews Robert Whitaker about his book Anatomy of an Epidemic , the long-term impact of psychiatric drugs, and promising alternatives to the failed drug-based model of care. The post The Drug-based Approach to Mental Illness Has Failed appeared first on Mad In America.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 12, 2024

About 200 women ages 18 to 22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students assembling thousands of Iranian-designed attack drones to be launched into Ukraine. In interviews with the Associated Press , some of the women said they were misled that it would be a work-study program, describing long hours under constant surveillance, broken promises about wages and areas of study, and working with caustic chemicals that left their skin pockmarked a

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Work Life

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Many entrepreneurs are inspired by romantic conceptions of how great startup life can be, and are looking for an exit path from the typical culture of a big company. They dream about getting rid of bureaucracy, hierarchies, irrelevant policies, unfair inequalities, and all the other corporate irritations. The appeal of reinventing all this is especially strong for founders who see themselves as maverick disruptors.

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