Eat An Orange. Be Happy.

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Eating an orange a day may lower a person’s depression risk by 20 percent, according to a study led by Raaj Mehta, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. 

That might be because citrus stimulates growth of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii (F. prausnitzii), a type of bacteria found in the human gut, to influence production of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine – two biological molecules known to elevate mood.

In this edited conversation with the The Harvard Gazette, Mehta discusses key takeaways from the study.

Love Reading About Pete Hegseth's Past

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Oh the troubles we carry ... from Wikipedia on Vets For Freedom where Pete Hegseth was involved.

In 2007, Pete Hegseth became president of Vets For Freedom, and when its finances became bleak, the donors arranged a merger that took over management, and Hegseth left in 2012.[13]

And the latest is that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the Pentagon would end funds supporting active-duty service members at Harvard where he graduated in 2013 with a master's degree in public policy. The school is offering military students alternatives to defer or go elsewhere.

Do you think Pete Hegseth cares about declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk?  “Designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk would be an unprecedented action – one historically reserved for US adversaries, never before publicly applied to an American company,” Anthropic wrote.

I think we should declare Pete Hegseth a serious risk to our country.

Viewpoint Diversity by Harvard

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Harvard leaders have discussed creating a program that people briefed on the talks described as a center for conservative scholarship, possibly modeled on Stanford’s Hoover Institution, as the school fights the Trump administration’s accusations that it is too liberal.

A spokesman for Harvard said an initiative under discussion “will ensure exposure to the broadest ranges of perspectives on issues, and will not be partisan, but rather will model the use of evidence-based, rigorous logic and a willingness to engage with opposing views.” He added that the school has been accelerating efforts to set up the initiative, which would “promote and support viewpoint diversity.”

Learn more about how Harvard is getting close to making this 'viewpoint diversity' happen.