Institute For The Future

Apologizing Means Never Having to Spend any Money

Would you rather have an apology by itself or an apology and a bit of cash? If you're like most people, you want the apology, without the money, at...

Nudging employees to wellness is a hot topic

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More on the financial rewards of health and wellness

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Take the Blue Pill... Unless You Love Italian Soccer

A Wired Magazine piece on placebos has gained a fair amount of attention for tracing the inexplicable increase in the size of the placebo effect in...

Getting Paid to Lose Weight

Would you lose weight for $1,000? HealthyWage, a company that announced its public launch this week, believes that the promise of a financial...

Engineering Meat

I'm sure I'm not the first researcher to spend a day reading about the high costs--in terms of land, fuel, and water--involved with producing meat...

Nutrients—here, there, everywhere—and for sale

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The scent of . . . an illness

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Does Depression Serve a Purpose?

Depression, the mental health variety, doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, at least from an evolutionary perspective. Lots of people are...

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Last week, my colleague Jake Dunagan discussed value-based movements against plastic manufacturing and noted that "seemingly EVERYTHING in a child's...

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The Boston Globe ran a fascinating article earlier in the week pulling together some of the newest research into a very old question: Can money buy...

A growing movement against plastic will define a large segment of values-based consumers. Visceral reactions to images of the “great garbage patch”...

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A couple months ago, a broad consortium of bloggers, patients and companies endorsed a declaration of health data privacy aimed at ensuring individual...

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If you get your flu shot from while sitting in your car at some point in the future, don't be surprised. A group of emergency room workers from...

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