1International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, “Quick Facts,” “40% OF LYME PATIENTS END UP WITH LONG TERM HEALTH PROBLEMS. The average patient sees 5 doctors over nearly 2 years before being diagnosed,” http://www.ilads.org/lyme/lyme-quickfacts.php
2International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society, “Quick Facts,” “THERE ARE NO TESTS AVAILABLE TO PROVE THAT THE ORGANISM IS ERADICATED OR THAT THE PATIENT IS CURED,” http://www.ilads.org/lyme/lyme-quickfacts.php
3For more, consider: Cecilie Schou Andreassen, Ståle Pallesen, Mark D. Griffiths, “The relationship between addictive use of social media, narcissism, and self-esteem: Findings from a large national survey,” Addictive Behaviors, Issue 64, March 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j. addbeh.2016.03.006; Keith Wilcox, Andrew T. Stephen, “Are Close Friends the Enemy? Online Social Networks, Self-Esteem, and Self-Control,” Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 40, Issue 1, 1 June 2013, pp 90–103, https://doi.org/10.1086/668794, Published: 27 November 2012.
4https://twitter.com/thisisjendoll/status/745371778961260544
5Adeel Hassan, “Donald Trump, Orlando, Anton Yelchin: Your Tuesday Briefing,” The New York Times, Jun 21, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/nytnow/your-tuesday-briefing-donald-trump-orlando-anton-yelchin.html
6“Social Media Fact Sheet,” Jan 12, 2017, Pew Research Center, http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/social-media/
7Andrew Perrin, “One-fifth of Americans report going online ‘almost constantly,’” Pew Research Center, Dec 8, 2015, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/08/one-fifth-of-americans-report-going-online-almost-constantly/
8Clifford Nass, “Is Facebook Stunting Your Child’s Growth?” Pacific Standard, Apr 23, 2012
9Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin Press, Oct 2015, Intro
10Kristin Newman, What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, Three Rivers Press, 2014
11Amber Case, Calm Technology, O’Reilly Media, 2016, Ch. 2, “Principles of Calm Technology”
12Kyle Stock, Lance Lambert, Dave Ingold, “Smartphones Are Killing Americans, But Nobody’s Counting,” Bloomberg, Oct 17, 2017
13Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin Press, Oct 2015, p 38
14Terra Barnes, Yasuo Kubota, Dan Hu, Dezhe Z Jin, Ann M Graybiel, “Activity of striatal neurons reflects dynamic encoding and recoding of procedural memories,” Nature, 2005, 437. 1158-61. 10.1038/nature04053
15“MIT researcher sheds light on why habits are hard to make and break,” MIT News, Oct. 20, 1999
16Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit, Random House, 2012, Ch 1
17Ed Diener, Jeff Horowitz, Robert A. Emmons, “Happiness of the Very Wealthy,” R.A. Social Indicators Research, 1985, 16: 263. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00415126
18Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, 2002
19Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, 2002, Ch. 2
20Will S. Hylton, “The Unbreakable Laura Hillenbrand,” The New York Times Magazine, Dec 18, 2014
21Esmé Weijun Wang, “When Delivery Is Not a Luxury,” Eater, Sept 27, 2016
22“Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research,” JAMA Network, http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2548255
23Anahad O’Connor, “How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat,” New York Times, Sept 12, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-industry-shifted-blame-to-fat.html?_r=1
24Jacqueline Raposo, “Don’t Call Me Pretty, I’m Just Sick and Skinny,” Bust, April 2016
25For more on this, read Allie Cashel’s Suffering the Silence: Chronic Lyme Disease in an Age of Denial, North Atlantic Books, 2015.
26Riva P, Sacchi S, Montali L, Frigerio A, “Gender effects in pain detection: speed and accuracy in decoding female and male pain expressions,” Eur J Pain 2011 Oct;15(9):985.e1-985.e11, doi: 10.1016/j.ejpain.2011.02.006, Epub 2011 Mar 23.
27Judy Foreman, “Why Women are Living in the Discomfort Zone,” The Wall Street Journal, Jan 31, 2014
28David R. Williams, Harold W. Neighbors, James S. Jackson, “Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Health: Findings From Community Studies,” American Journal of Public Health 93, no. 2 (February 1, 2003): pp 200–208.
29Penner LA, Blair IV, Albrecht TL, Dovidio JF, “Reducing Racial Health Care Disparities: A Social Psychological Analysis,” Policy Insights From the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2014;1(1):204–212, doi: 10.1177/2372732214548430.
30Izmirly PM, Wan I, Sahl S, Buyon JP, Belmont HM, Salmon JE, Askanase A, Bathon JM, Geraldino-Pardilla L, Ali Y, Ginzler EM, Putterman C, Gordon C, Helmick CG, and Parton H, “The Incidence and Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in New York County (Manhattan), New York: The Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program,” Arthritis & Rheumatology, 2017;69: 2006–2017, doi: 10.1002/art.40192
31American Addiction Centers, http://americanaddictioncenters.org/withdrawal-timelines-treatments/
32Maya Rhodan and David Johnson, “Here Are 7 Electoral College Predictions for Tuesday,” Time, Nov 8, 2016, http://time.com/4561625/electoral-college-predictions/
33“The Empire State Building has transformed into a giant, glowing election tracker tonight,” Washington Post, Nov 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-updates-on-the-2016-election-voting-and-race-results/the-empire-state-building-has-transformed-into-a-giant-glowing-election-tracker-tonight/?utm_term=.601837ee09ae
34All data throughout taken from Election 2016, Washington Post, Nov 8–9 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-updates-on-the-2016-election-voting-and-race-results/?utm_term=.4d2477b2d91a
35Washington Post, Nov 8, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-updates-on-the-2016-election-voting-and-race-results/electoral-vote-counter-who-has-the-lead/?utm_term=.c120442879ac
36Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, “AP: Trump elected president,” Nov 9, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-updates-on-the-2016-election-voting-and-race-results/ap-trump-elected-president/?utm_term=.81121662bd50
37Bocarsly ME, Hoebel BG, Paredes D, von Loga I, Murray SM, Wang M, Arolfo MP, Yao L, Diamond I, Avena NM, “GS 455534 selectively suppresses binge eating of palatable food and attenuates dopamine release in the accumbens of sugar-bingeing rats,” Behav Pharmacol 2014;25(2): 147–157, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32738245/67Bocarsly14.pdf
38Estimated from 2 servings of Cape Cod 40% Reduced Fat Potato Chips . . . my favorite; https://www.capecodchips.com/product/40-reduced-fat-original/
39Julia Bainbridge, “Why I Stopped Drinking on Dates,” Manrepeller, 2016, http://www.manrepeller.com/2016/10/drinking-on-dates-alcohol.html
40Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, First Vintage Books, 2005, Ch 3, p 66
41Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness, First Vintage Books, 2005, Ch 7, p 151
42Anonymous, True Politeness, A Hand-Book of Etiquette For Ladies, Leavitt & Allen, 1847
43From Charles Varle, Moral Encyclopaedia, 1830: “18 Rules of Behavior for Young Ladies in 1831,” NPR History Department, https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/11/20/456224571/18-rules-of-behavior-for-young-ladies-in-1831
44Keri Hanson, “The History of Macy’s: From Humble Beginnings to Stunning Success,” VisitMacys.com, https://www.visitmacysusa.com/article/history-macys-humble-beginnings-stunning-success
45Walter R. Houghton, American Etiquette and Rules of Politeness, Standard Pub. Co., 1883
46Lindy Woodhead, Shopping, Seduction, and Mr. Selfridge, Profile Books, 2007
47Keri Hanson, “The History of Macy’s: From Humble Beginnings to Stunning Success,” VisitMacys.com, https://www.visitmacysusa.com/article/history-macys-humble-beginnings-stunning-success
48Jonathan Glancey, “A History of the Department Store,” BBC Culture, Mar 26, 2015
49Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Viking, 1998
50“Ringing in the Holidays: Hershey’s Kisses Chocolates,” HersheyArchives.org, http://blog.hersheyarchives.org/tag/tv-commercial/
51“Why Are We Not Happier During Christmas?” The New York Times, Dec 23, 2012, https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/12/23/why-arent-people-happier-during-the-holidays/the-holidays-offer-mixed-blessings
52Stephanie Cacioppo, John P. Capitanio, John T. Cacioppo, “Toward a Neurology of Loneliness,” Psychological Bulletin, Nov 2014, Vol 140(6), 1464–1504
53John T. Cacioppo et al., “Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: the MacArthur social neuroscience studies,” International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2000;35:143–154
54John T. Cacioppo et al., “Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: the MacArthur social neuroscience studies,” International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2000;35:143–154
55Brinkhues et al., “Socially isolated individuals are more prone to have newly diagnosed and prevalent type 2 diabetes mellitus - the Maastricht study,” BMC Public Health, 2017;17:955, doi 10.1186/s12889-017-4948-6
56Stephanie Cacioppo, John P. Capitanio, John T. Cacioppo, “Toward a Neurology of Loneliness,” Psychological Bulletin, Nov 2014, Vol 140(6), 1464–1504
57John T. Cacioppo et al., “Lonely traits and concomitant physiological processes: the MacArthur social neuroscience studies,” International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2000;35:143–154
58Taken from attendance at Charles Dickens and The Spirit of Christmas, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City, http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/charles-dickens-and-the-spirit-of-christmas
59Thomas Hood, “A Christmas Carol in Prose,” Hood’s Magazine and Comic Miscellany: Volume 1, January 1, 1844, H. Hurst
60Lisa Feldman Barrett, “The Secret History of Emotions,” The Chronicle Review, Mar 5, 2017
61Lisa Feldman Barrett, “The Secret History of Emotions,” The Chronicle Review, Mar 5, 2017
62Lisa Feldman Barrett, James Gross, Tamlin Conner Christensen, Michael Benvenuto, “Knowing what you’re feeling and knowing what to do about it: Mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation,” Psychology Press, 2001;15 (6):713–724
63“The Unsinkable Debbie Reynolds Looks Back on Life, Love, and a Boozy Busby Berkeley,” NPR Weekend Edition, Mar 27, 2013
64Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking, Simon & Shuster, 2008
65Emilie M. Townes, A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering, Orbis Books, 1993
66Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman, “This is what we learned by counting the women’s marches,” The Washington Post, Feb 7, 2017
67Samantha Michaels, “The Americans With Disabilities Act is Turning 25. Watch the Dramatic Protest that Made It Happen,” Mother Jones, July 25, 2015
68Sara Barton, “Geeking Out About #MarchingWithMe,” Geeks Out, Feb 14, 2017
69Angela Davis, “To the 3 Women Who Rallied For My Rare Disease at the Women’s March,” The Mighty, February 7, 2017
70Emile M. Townes, “Living in the New Jerusalem: The Rhetoric and Movement of Liberation in the House of Evil,” A Troubling in My Soul: Womanist Perspectives on Evil and Suffering, Orbis Books, 1993
71Rev. Dr. Kathryn N. Dwyer, “Why Is There Suffering?” Rock Spring Congregationalist United Church of Christ, Mar 25, 2018, http://www.rockspringucc.org/media/why-is-there-suffering
72Mark King at the March For Our Lives, Video, https://youtu.be/4GSFjXd_Ibs
73Susan Dominus, “When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy,” The New York Times, Oct 18. 2017
74Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C. Cuddy, Andy J. Yap, “Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance,” Psychological Science, Vol 21, Issue 10, pp 1363–1368, Sept 20, 2010
75Joseph P. Simmons, Leif D. Nelson, Uri Simonsohn, “False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant,” Psychological Science, Vol 22, Issue 11, pp 1359–1366, Oct 17, 2011
76Eva Ranehill, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Susanne Leiberg, Sunhae Sul, Roberto A. Weber, “Assessing the Robustness of Power Posing: No Effect on Hormones and Risk Tolerance in a Large Sample of Men and Women,” Psychological Science, Vol 26, Issue 5, pp 653–656, Mar 25, 2015
77David DeSteno, “A Feeling of Control: How America Can Finally Learn to Deal with Its Impulses,” Pacific Standard, Sept 15, 2014
78Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff video, https://storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/
79http://zwia.org/standards/zw-definition/
80Josh Sandbulte, “Why the Post Office Gives Amazon Special Delivery,” The Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2017
81Clare Miflin, Juliette Spertus, Benjamin Miller, Christine Grace, “Zero Waste Design Guidelines: Design Strategies and Case Studies for a Zero Waste City,” The Center for Architecture, 2017
82Compared between Fresh Direct’s Family Sized Tub of Raw Almonds and Westerly Market’s raw almonds in bulk, https://www.freshdirect.com/pdp.jsp?productId=gro_fd_tb_rawalm&-catId=gro_ntsd_almnd and http://www.westerlynaturalmarket.com/shop/product_view.asp?id=1046804&StoreID=QWCSN3N89ASR2JS000AKHMCCQAB04FN2&private_product=1
83Victor Lebow, “Price Competition in 1955,” Journal of Retailing, Spring 1955
84Luke Whelan, “4 Big Recycling Myths Tossed Out,” Mother Jones, Jul 13, 2015
85Roland Geyer, Jenna R. Jambeck, Kara Lavender Law, “Production, use, and fate of all plastics ever made,” Science Advances, July 19, 2017, E1700782
86Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: 2014 Fact Sheet, Environmental Protection Agency, https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-11/documents/2014_smmfactsheet_508.pdf
87The State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, Apr 2018, www.ct.gov
88Luke Whelan, “4 Big Recycling Myths Tossed Out,” Mother Jones, Jul 13, 2015
89Arlington, VA, Department of Environmental Services Quarterly Review, January 2018 for calendar year 2016
90Provided by MOM’S Organic Market
91Clean Water Action, “The Problem of Marine Plastic Pollution,” https://www.cleanwater.org/problem-marine-plastic-pollution. Sourced from: D.W. Laist, “Impacts of marine debris: entanglement of marine life in marine debris including a comprehensive list of species with entanglement and ingestion records,” in Coe JM, Rogers DB (eds), Marine Debris: Sources, Impacts, and Solutions, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1997, pp 99–139
92Joseph H. Guth, “Law for the Ecological Age,” Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Volume 9, 2007–2008
93Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: 2014 Fact Sheet, United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Land and Emergency Management (5306P), Nov 2016. Nondurable waste includes clothing, footwear, drapery, etc. Overall textiles rates that include leather and rubber make the numbers even higher. Number calculated = Total weight = 11.95 million tons = 23,900,000,000 pounds / 2014 population of US at 318.6 million = 75.02 lb per person
94Elizabeth Cline, “Where Does Discarded Clothing Go?” The Atlantic, July 18, 2004
95Angel Chang, “The life cycle of a t-shirt,” TED-Ed
96Bangladesh Factsheet, Clean Clothes Campaign, Feb 2015, https://cleanclothes.org/resources/publications/factsheets/bangladesh-factsheet-2-2015.pdf/view
97Andrea Newell, “Soon Your Clothes Could Be as Recyclable as Glass or Paper. Really,” Story of Stuff Project, https://storyofstuff.org/blog/soon-your-clothes-could-be-as-recyclable-as-glass-or-paper-really/
98Ashley Westerman, 4 Years After Rana Plaza Tragedy, What’s Changed For Bangladeshi Garment Workers?, NPR, Apr 30, 2017
99“According to Greenpeace, global clothing production doubled from 2000 to 2014. The average person buys 60 percent more items of clothing every year and keeps them for about half as long as 15 years ago,” Rick LeBlanc, “Textile Recycling Facts and Figures,” The Balance, Dec 29, 2017
100Advancing Sustainable Materials Management: 2014 Fact Sheet, United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Land and Emergency Management (5306P), Nov 2016
101Elizabeth Cline, “Where Does Discarded Clothing Go?” The Atlantic, July 18, 2004
102Angel Chang, “The life cycle of a t-shirt,” TED-Ed
103Andrea Newell, “Never Look at Clothes the Same Way Again,” Story of Stuff Project, https://storyofstuff.org/blog/never-look-at-clothes-the-same-way-again/
104Megan Garber, “Turns Out, Rory Gilmore is Not a Good Journalist,” The Atlantic, Nov 28, 2016
105Stacy Lu, “Too Much Caffeine?” American Psychological Association, Nov 2015, p 20, http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2015/11/coffee.aspx
106Lenore Arab, Faraz Khan, Helen Lam, “Epidemiologic Evidence of a Relationship between Tea, Coffee, or Caffeine Consumption and Cognitive Decline,” Adv Nutr Jan 4, 2013 (1):115–122, doi: 10.3945/an.112.002717
107Caffeine content for coffee, tea, soda, and more, The Mayo Clinic, as of Mar 2018, https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20049372
108Food and chemical toxicology: an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association, ISSN: 1873-6351, Vol: 109, Issue: Pt 1, pp 585–648
109Lisa Drayer, “The caffeine ‘detox’: How and why to cut back on your daily fix,” CNN, Oct 20, 2017
110Jonah Lehrer, “Don’t! The secret of self-control,” The New Yorker, May 18, 2009
111Tanya R. Schlam, et al., “Preschoolers’ Delay of Gratification Predicts their Body Mass 30 Years Later,” The Journal of Pediatrics, 2013; Volume 162, Issue 1, pp 90–93
112Jonah Lehrer, “Don’t! The secret of self-control,” The New Yorker, May 18, 2009
113David DeSteno, “A Feeling of Control: How America Can Finally Learn to Deal with Its Impulses,” Pacific Standard, Sept 15, 2014
114The Nielsen Total Audience Report, 1st Q 2016, http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/reports/2016/the-total-audience-report-q1-2016.html
115Lynn Yaeger, “Chanel, H&M, Macy’s, Diet Coke: What Should Karl Lagerfeld Design Next?” Vogue, August 4, 2011
116“Are Leggings Pants,” The Tylt, https://thetylt.com/culture/are-leggings-pants
117Erin McKelle, “9 Things Women Who Wear Leggings as Pants are Tired of Hearing,” Bustle, Mar 19, 2015
118Chris Weller, “Japan is Facing a ‘death by overwork’ problem – here’s what it’s all about,” Business Insider, Oct 18, 2017
119Mari Yamaguchi, “Japan overwork deaths among young show lessons unlearned,” Associated Press, Oct 21, 2016
120Brigid Schulte, “US productivity: Putting in all those hours doesn’t matter,” The Washington Post, May 14, 2014
121Family Guy, Season 4, Episode 5, “The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire”
122Love Bites Radio Episode 70, “Be Your Most Extreme You . . . In Moderation,” Heritage Radio Network, Apr 10, 2017
123Google Dictionary
124Claudia Wallis, “The Science of Happiness Turns 10. What Has It Taught?” Time, Jul 08, 2009
125Lyubomirsky, Sonja, René M Dickerhoof, Julia K Boehm and Kennon M Sheldon. “Becoming happier takes both a will and a proper way: an experimental longitudinal intervention to boost well-being,” Emotion, 11 2 (2011): 391–402.
126Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, 2002, Ch 3
127Ed Diener, Martin E.P. Seligman, “Very Happy People,” Psychological Science 2002
128Alex Billington, “Interview: ‘About Time’ Writer & Director Richard Curtis on Happiness,” http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/interview-about-time-writer-director-richard-curtis-on-happiness/, Nov 12, 2013
129Kathleen D. Vohs, Joseph P. Redden, Ryan Rahinel, “Physical Order Produces Healthy Choices, Generosity, and Conventionality, Whereas Disorder Produces Creativity,” Psychological Science, Aug 1, 2013, Vol 24, Issue 9, pp 1860–1867, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613480186
130Swami Satchidananda Saraswati, Integral Yoga Teachers Association Newsletter, Vol X No. 2, May 2004
131Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis, 2003, Universal Pictures
132Robb B. Rutledge et al., “Risk Taking for Potential Reward Decreases across the Lifespan,” Current Biology, June 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.05.017
133Montague confirms by email the conversation with Roko Belic as truth, but doesn’t expand. People are busy.
134Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking, Simon & Shuster, 2008
135Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, 2002
136Tim Kasser references Grube JW, Mayton DM, and Ball-Rokeach SJ,” Inducing Change in Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Belief System Theory and the Method of Value Self-Confrontation,” Journal of Social Issues, 1994;50:153–173, doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1994.tb01202.x; Rokeach M, “Long-range experimental modification of values, attitudes, and behavior,” American Psychologist, 1971;26(5):453–459; and Norman A. Polansky, Beliefs, Attitude and Values: A Theory of Organization and Change, Milton Rokeach, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1968 Social Work, Volume 14, Issue 4, 1 October 1969, pp 115–116, https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/14.4.115. I read this in Kasser’s The High Price of Materialism, MIT Press, 2002, Ch 9.
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