If you name it, you can tame it
A 2022 study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed that 67.7% of adults who smoked said they wanted to quit smoking, and 53.5% said they had tried to quit in the past year. Y...
15 Sep 20min
Championing innovation via entrepreneurship
“Don’t go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” This was the sage advice shared by Dan Jenkins with the 10 teams participating in the grand finale of the 2026 ...
28 Jul 11min
How Disneyland subtly served as one of society’s first introductions to automation
When Disneyland opened to the public in 1955, visionary engineers and designers transformed technologies of the postwar assembly line into extraordinary entertainment experiences. In his new book, "Di...
11 Jun 23min
Challenging negative stereotypes and embracing strengths associated with aging
In 1949, Mental Health America established that each May would be recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month. The theme for 2026 is “More Good Days, Together,” and it encourages everyone to think abo...
13 Mai 15min
An Earth Day lesson in ‘forever chemicals'
When the first Earth Day was recognized, on April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans – at the time, 10 percent of the total U.S. population – demonstrated in gatherings around the country to protest indus...
13 Apr 15min
In celebration of National Public Health Week
The American Public Health Association was formed in 1872, when scientific advances were starting to reveal the causes of contagious diseases. For over 150 years, the APHA has championed “optimal, equ...
31 Mar 28min
In conversation with 2026 Stockholm Prize winner Charis Kubrin
For over two decades, Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law and society, has examined how the presence of immigrants in communities affects public safety. Her findings continually cha...
2 Feb 22min
Empowering healthy choices
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing,” said Abraham Lincoln in a letter to Isham Reavis dated Nov. 5, 1855. Health and well-being hold ...
19 Des 202518min
