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Sitting in a corner sobbing may not be everyone’s idea of a great start to the year, but learning how to feel your sad emotions could be the key to a happier 2021. People who cry typically experience fewer “negative aggressive feelings”, such as rage and disgust, than people who don’t, according to research from the University of Kassel in Germany in 2009. Similarly, a 2010 study from Indiana University Bloomington found that American footballers who cried reported higher levels of self-esteem, and were less concerned about peer pressure than their non-crying counterparts.
“We now know that crying is something all humans are programmed to do, and that tears serve a purpose,” says Ad Vingerhoets, an academic known as the “tear professor” from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. “Cortisol levels decrease in those who cry, since expressing
BNSF Group VP Elected IANA Officer Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief
BNSF Group Vice President Consumer Products Business Group Tom Williams has been elected Treasurer of the Intermodal Association of North America (IANA). He joins Port of Long Beach Deputy Executive Director Dr. Noel Hacegaba, elected Chair; and InTek Freight & Logistics Inc. President Shelli Austin, elected Vice Chair, on IANA’s 2021 Board of Directors and Officers.
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Williams, who joined BNSF predecessor Santa Fe in 1993 as a pricing analyst, has been in his current position since August 2017. He holds bachelor of science and master’s degrees in Business Administration from Indiana University Bloomington and the University of Chicago, respectively, and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Senda Biosciences, a Flagship Pioneering company creating novel categories of medicines based on Intersystems Biology, today announced the formation of its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Senda s SAB is composed of leading experts across immunology, microbiology, biochemistry, and neurology, and will collaborate with Senda s leadership to support and advance the new research discipline of Intersystems Biology. This discipline focuses on how molecular connections among botanical, bacterial, and human cells coevolved over millennia define health and disease. We are thrilled to have attracted some of the brightest minds in their fields to our SAB, says Guillaume Pfefer, PhD, chief executive officer of Senda. The deep expertise of the SAB will be pivotal to the advancement of our novel approach to medicines development, rooted in an unparalleled understanding of interspecies molecular connections.
Local lawyer who ran for prosecutor named deputy AG
1/1/21 2:45 AM
Indiana Attorney General-elect Todd Rokita has named Inspector General Lori Torres as chief deputy attorney general and chief of staff.
Torres, a Whiteland resident, was appointed to serve as inspector general in 2017 by Gov. Eric Holcomb.
She ran unsuccessfully for Johnson County prosecutor last year, after former prosecutor Brad Cooper was charged with multiple felonies stemming from a domestic battery incident at his Trafalgar home and eventually removed from office.
At the time, she cited an absence of leadership, integrity, professionalism and work ethic combined with a lack of respect and accountability at the highest level of the prosecutor’s office for a long period of time as the reason an outside leader was needed, and said she had the record necessary to serve as the prosecutor that the county expects and deserves.
What will life be like after the coronavirus pandemic ends? Experts predict the social consequences of COVID-19 Posted By Bruce Bower, Science News on Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 7:19 AM click to enlarge Pexels / Gustavo Fring
As 2020 blessedly clangs to a close, it’s tempting to wonder where we’re headed once the pandemic is history. In the spirit of year-end curiosity about COVID-19’s possible long-term effects,
Science News posed this question to a few scholars: What major social changes do you see coming after the pandemic? As baseball’s Yogi Berra once said, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” The following forecasts, edited for length and clarity, aren’t written in stone and aren’t meant to be. But they raise some provocative possib