Why You’re Thirsty + Other Stories
Every week, we corral the best wellness stories from around the internet—just in time for your weekend bookmarking. This week: one nation’s innovative fight against climate change, the effects of overwhelming variety, and the cost of physician burnout.
What’s Doctor Burnout Costing America?
NPR
Increased paperwork and bureaucratic stressors, among other factors, are causing doctors to feel cynicism, depression, and lethargy. And these symptoms comes with a monetary and physical cost.
There Is Too Much Stuff
The Atlantic
Overwhelmed by all the shopping choices? Here’s an interesting look at how the variety and abundance aren’t equating to value.
The Philippines Wants to Make Planting Trees a Graduation Requirement
Popular Science
It’s an innovative strategy to combat climate change—but it’s facing some obstacles.
Does Thirst Start in the Mouth or the Gut?
Scientific American
New research is shedding light on what really happens after we gulp.