What’s In This Issue?
Game Studio Launches Project To Ease Mental Suffering
Last year UK-based video game developer Ninja Theory collaborated with a Neuroscientist and Microsoft's Xbox Game Studios to create an award winning game that let people powerfully experience what it was like to suffer from a severe psychosis. This week they launched their new Insight Project - an ambitious effort to put the best minds of gaming, technology and neuroscience together to find solutions to ease mental suffering. It has already been a fruitful non-obvious collaboration and worth putting on your radar to watch and see what they come up with next.
Millennials Will Get Sick and Die Faster Than Past Generations
A new report published this week from Blue Cross Blue Shield suggested that millennials will have a tough future ahead. Specifically, the report suggests that the generation of people born from 1981 to 1996 will have higher hypertension, higher cholesterol, higher tobacco use and higher depression. They will also have slower economic growth, higher health costs and the added pressure of environmental disasters to deal with. It's enough to make you thankful to be a Gen-Xer.
28 Tiny Bridge Houses In Amsterdam Win Best Hotel Award
In a perfect concept for a city divided by 165 canals, this group of hotels are converted bridge operators houses that are now a series of one room hotels. It's a beautiful idea, offers a unique stay experience and won the top award in the Hotel and Short-Stay Interior category in the Dezeen Awards. The houses themselves range in age from 10 to 350 years old and are sure to inspire similar concepts in other cities.
How Overtourism Is Driving Destinations To Set Tourist Limits
Famous destinations from Dubrovnik to Kathmandu are getting flooded with tourists. As more people seek out that perfect experience, the world's hottest travel spots continue to suffer. The solution seems obvious - we all need to try harder to go to more unusual places. And the best way to find those spots will be to seek out expert advice. If there was ever an argument for a resurgence of the travel agent industry, this would be it.
