Curiosity Daily Podcast: 5 Steps to Hitting Work-Life Balance
Learn about a 5-step process for finding work-life balance; photosynthetic bacteria that have never seen the sun; and why researchers build a digital model of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism: the first known analog computer.
May 03, 2021
Episode Show Notes:
A 5-step process for hitting the moving target of work-life balance by Kelsey Donk
- Lufkin, B. (2021). Why it’s wrong to look at work-life balance as an achievement. BBC.com. https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210302-why-work-life-balance-is-not-an-achievement
- Work-Life Balance Is a Cycle, Not an Achievement. (2021, January 29). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/01/work-life-balance-is-a-cycle-not-an-achievement
- Lupu, I., Ruiz-Castro, M., & Leca, B. (2020). Role Distancing and the Persistence of Long Work Hours in Professional Service Firms. Organization Studies, 017084062093406. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840620934064
There are photosynthetic bacteria that have never seen the sun by Cameron Duke
- Beatty, J. T., Overmann, J., Lince, M. T., Manske, A. K., Lang, A. S., Blankenship, R. E., Van Dover, C. L., Martinson, T. A., & Plumley, F. G. (2005). An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(26), 9306–9310. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0503674102
- Researchers find photosynthesis deep within ocean. (2005). ASU.edu. https://www.asu.edu/feature/includes/summer05/readmore/photosyn.html
- They Find Light in the Darkness (Published 2005). (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/science/they-find-light-in-the-darkness.html
Researchers just built the most accurate and complete model of the first known analog computer by Cameron Duke
- Freeth, T., Higgon, D., Dacanalis, A., MacDonald, L., Georgakopoulou, M., & Wojcik, A. (2021). A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84310-w
- Freeth, T., & Jones, A. (2012, February). Tony Freeth and Alexander Jones. “The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism.” ISAW Papers 4 (February, 2012). Nyu.edu. http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/4/
- Sample, I. (2006, November 30). Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved. The Guardian; The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/nov/30/uknews
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