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The Role Plants Play In Productive Office Life

The Horizons Tracker

Each participant was asked to take a 3-minute rest when they felt stressed or tired, and the researchers measured the rate at which their pulse lowered after that rest. Each participant was given one of six plants they could keep on their desk, including bonsai plants, foliage plants and air plants. Something to care for.

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Uber Shows How Not to Apply Behavioral Economics

Harvard Business Review

In a related paper published in 2013 , Alexander Arriaga and colleagues had 17 operating-room teams participate in 106 simulated surgical-crisis scenarios. Remarkably, 97% of those who participated in the study reported that if one of these crises occurred while they were undergoing an operation, they would want the checklist used.