Scents are associated with temperature, so warm scents have a different impact than cool scents. For instance, cool scents such as peppermint or eucalyptus in confined environments give the illusion that the area is more spacious.
Reddit, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM are some of the tech companies offering employees paid parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility treatments, and other helpful resources for parents.
Businesses can use employee data to increase productivity and improve the workplace, but they should collect and use the data in a transparent and ethical way.
Depression is a common occurrence in multiple sclerosis patients, but an online app is helping patients better relay data about their mood to their physicians.
Former astronaut Jay Buckey spent 16 days in space and shares his thoughts on how viewing nature scenes through virtual reality can improve life in a confined space such as on a spacecraft.
Valera Health uses technology to triage patients to determine which level of care is necessary for patients requiring behavioral and mental health treatment.
The key to becoming a fabled 10x programmer, according to Trisha Gee, developer advocate at software firm JetBrains, is to practice pair programming, but with a twist.
TRISH is in a consortium with MIT, California Institute of Technology and NASA to fund research to safeguard the health and wellness of astronauts in deep space. Everything from scent, sight and sound can impact individuals in a confined environment.
The MIT Spaces 2 workshop focused on how to live in confined environments both in space and on Earth, and the importance of music in mental health. The Institute for Music and Neurologic Function works with patients with neurologic disorders such as Parkinson’s, or stroke patients, to use music to improve their gait and maximize attention.
A recent MIT workshop focused on optimizing behavioral health and cognitive performance in confined environments found in space travel. Find out how this applies to the modern workplace.
The Mozilla developers understand the need for content blocking in a web browser. To that end, they’ve bolstered the offerings in Firefox. Check out the latest iteration of Content Blocking.
If you find yourself viewing a website on your Android device, that won’t allow you to zoom, fret not … you can force that option with both Chrome and Firefox. Find out how.
