What did I learn today

• As a predictor of early death loneliness surpasses even obesity. The following paper, a meta-analysis, concludes that social isolation and loneliness increases risk of mortality of ~30%. 
• A universal income could make life alot happier and creative, Alan Watts argues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhvoInEsCI0 (may even be a solution for an increasing global unemployment issue). 
• How to manage mild hypertension.
• The is no proven benefit of peer review and tonnes of evidence of the downsides of it. Fraud, repeatablity, slow, biased, luck can be involved, wasteful of scientific time, irrelevant, no quality assurance, inefficient and easily. The perils of Peer Review. 
• Free lessons on behavioural medicine
• The so called 'overjustification effect', that a reward can reinforce the belief that a task isnt worth doing. So rewarding children for doing chores or helping out is potentially a bad thing and rewarding yourself for goals an potentially be detrimental.
• How to teach medical students
• that OK GO are back with a new video: https://www.facebook.com/okgo/videos/10153836041340683/