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☆ How to win 'The Price is Right'—don't make this 'egregious' mistake, says Yale-trained game theory expert
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( Mike Winters | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

It's easy to get sucked into watching "The Price is Right," the beloved TV game show where contestants win cash and prizes by guessing the price of merchandise. An investment analyst by trade, Bergner specialized in game theory at Yale University and has been a lifelong fan of TV show. Three contestants spin the wheel up to two times, aiming to be the closest to $1 without going over. Do one of these two things if you're the last bidder on Contestants' RowAs indicated above, if you're the last bidder on Contestants' Row, you're doing better already. Bid on the first showcase in the Showcase ShowdownAt the end of the show, two contestants face off in the Showcase Showdown.

Persons: Drew Carey, Justin L, Bergner, It's Organizations: Yale University

☆ Lessons From a 20-Person Polycule
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Interviews Daniel Bergner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +17 min

Relationships With More Than One PersonKatie I started by dating somebody on an ENM app who was in a different polycule who was connected to someone in this polycule. He’s married, and his wife and I are metamours, which is simply a word for my partner’s partner. Resources always help, books like “The Ethical Slut” and “Polysecure.” But undoing the monogamous script, the socialization, is really, really difficult. One of their husbands is one of my best friends and occasional sexual partner, and I do have sex with my wives, but we’re not romantically involved. It’s, I’m doing these things, I’m going to be gone for these two weeks, what do you need from me?

Persons: it’s, Katie, Ann It’s, Ashley, Nico, we’re, Katie It’s, Alex, Chris, Bine, He’s, I’d, Nico I, nonmonogamy, aren’t, Ann I’m, I’ve, forevermore, bro, We’d, Robert, Ann’s, I’m, Ann, Let’s, ”, Katie There’s, Fred, Robert We, —, I’ll, She’ll, Ann I, They’re, They’ve, Katie Last, We’re, It’s, they’re, Daniel Bergner, ” Anne Vetter Organizations: Resources, Partners Locations: Boston, Cambridge, Ann, Somerville, Los Angeles

☆ Black and Jewish Activists Have Allied for Decades. What Now?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Daniel Bergner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The cover of that edition of S.N.C.C.’s newsletter called attention to police killings of Black men, with the headline: “Cops Run Wild. Where Will They Strike Next?” Black and Palestinian resistance to repression were bound together. The theology claims that an immense fraud has been perpetrated by Jews upon Black people. Yet in recent years, a new bond between Black and Jewish activists has emerged, catalyzed, in part, by the confluence of civil rights protests and attention to the Palestinian plight. The alliance is “growing and exciting,” Nyle Fort, a Black activist and assistant professor of African American and African diaspora studies at Columbia, told me.

Persons: Huey P, Newton, Louis Farrakhan, Satan ”, ”, Ye, “ I’m, Kyrie Irving, Jacob, Henry Ford, Mumia Abu, Jamal, Rather, Fort, Fort’s, “, ” Fort, Nehisi Coates, Coates, Abraham, zealots, Jim Crow, Morgan Bassichis Organizations: Black Panther Party, Black Power, Washington, ”, America, Columbia, West Bank, Dream, Israel, Fort, Jewish, Peace, Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Voice Locations: Black, Jersey City, Ferguson, United States, Palestinian, Israel, Washington, Manhattan, Aqsa, Jerusalem, Hebron

☆ Opinion | Approaches to Mental Illness
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Re “There’s a Reason So Many People Quit Antipsychotic Drugs,” by Daniel Bergner (Opinion guest essay, June 4):Thank you to Mr. Bergner and The New York Times for countering hate and prejudice and raising a voice of reason on the subject of forced psychiatric treatment. There are so many of us: those who were harmed by forced treatment, those whose loved ones were harmed, those who lost loved ones to horrible physical side effects of psychotropic medications or to suicide when people chose death over another round of forced treatment. Patients flock to the few places that offer effective, humane treatment modalities (Open Dialogue, Soteria House). Providing housing without preconditions along with access to voluntary mental health services is the best evidence-based practice recommended by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and used with great results all over the world. But it does not create a lot of profit for pharmaceutical companies and psychiatric hospitals.

Persons: Daniel Bergner, Bergner Organizations: New York Times, Mental Health Services Administration, U.S . Department of Health

☆ Opinion | A Major Problem With Compulsory Mental Health Care Is the Medication
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Daniel Bergner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

The New York City chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness — the country’s largest organization representing the mentally ill and their families — has protested on City Hall’s steps against Mr. Adams’s efforts to loosen standards for mandatory care. It is to say that the drugs shouldn’t be considered — as they tend to be now — the required linchpin of treatment. Science hasn’t made great strides in antipsychotics since the drugs were first introduced seven decades ago. Commonly, people abandon their antipsychotic drugs, whether they’re in mandatory treatment or the most sensitive, attentive voluntary programs. This is generally attributed to anosognosia and the disorganization that can come with mental illness, but it might well be seen as an outcome from the weighing of pros and cons.

Persons: —, they’re, that’s, Michelle Funk, shouldn’t, hasn’t, anosognosia Organizations: New, National Alliance, New York, New York City Bar Association, World Health Locations: New York City

☆ Want to Fix Your Mind? Let Your Body Talk.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Daniel Bergner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

In explaining our psychological troubles, van der Kolk highlights the role of what can loosely be labeled the primal regions of the brain, along with that of the body. The book has a certain kind of romantic appeal; it restores us to the natural world, to the animal kingdom. But while van der Kolk’s readership is vast, he is probably not the most essential figure in the somatic therapy movement. And beyond modern credit for its concepts, somatic therapy owes a debt to timeless practices like mindfulness and meditation.) Van der Kolk’s best-seller-dom and Levine’s legion of new practitioners speak to a current yearning for the holistic.

☆ Scientists explain alien comet 'Oumuamua's strange acceleration
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

A new study has offered a more sober explanation - that 'Oumuamua's speed-up was due to the release of hydrogen gas as the comet warmed up in the sunlight. "The key finding is that 'Oumuamua may have started as a water-rich icy planetesimal broadly similar to solar system comets. "We don't know its place of origin but it was probably traveling through interstellar space for less than 100 million years. It had a reddish color consistent with the colors of many small bodies in the solar system. A second interstellar object, the comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered visiting our solar system in 2019.

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