Follow your heat

Follow your heart

Long distance travel is an unusual activity for humans. The economical cabin environment (low air circulation, limited space, low humidity, etc.) during the long haul flights causes discomfort and even stress for many passengers. In-flight video and music systems are commonly available to improve the comfort level of the passengers. However, current in-flight music systems do not explore how th...

Above all, follow your dreams.

345 “A Letter to my Younger Colleagues” is a series of essays written by selected senior Canadian paediatricians, who were named as outstanding mentors by a prominent group of their younger peers. I hope you enjoy and treasure the rich pearls of wisdom that each author offers, based on a lifetime of professional practice and personal reflections. Andrew Lynk MD Assistant Editor, Paediatrics & C...

Follow your heart: Emotion adaptively influences perception.

The current review introduces a new program of research that suggests the perception of spatial layout is influenced by emotions. Though perceptual systems are often described as closed and insulated, this review presents research suggesting that a variety of induced emotions (e.g., fear, disgust, sadness) can produce changes in vision and audition. Thus, the perceptual system may be highly int...

Integration: follow your instincts, ignore the politics, and keep your eyes on the ideal model.

Follow your nose? Smell, smelling, and their histories.

“A GREAT MANY THINGS have been said of Smells,” observed the late-seventeenthcentury Italian physician Bernardino Ramazzini, but “a particular and exact History of ’em is yet wanting.”1 This was still the case nearly three hundred years later when Roy Porter wrote his foreword to the English translation of Alain Corbin’s The Foul and the Fragrant, the work that more than any other wafted odor i...