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Islamic Philosophy / Sleep ScienceIbn Sina (Avicenna) / Matthew Walker

Most of us treat rest as the absence of work — a blank space between productive stretches. But the 11th-century Persian physician and philosopher Ibn Sina argued something...

In the last week, when did you last sit with nothing — no input, no task, no purpose — for more than three minutes?...

Islamic Philosophy (Ibn Sina / Avicenna) synthesized with Stress Biology (Bruce McEwen / Allostatic Load theory)Ibn Sina (Canon of Medicine, c. 1025 CE) synthesized with Bruce McEwen (Allostatic Load theory, 'Stress, Adaptation, and Disease,' 1998)

The medieval Islamic physician Ibn Sina — known in the West as Avicenna — argued in his Canon of Medicine that the body and mind share a single 'vital spirit,' and that prolonged...

Name one recovery practice you've cut short this week in the name of productivity — and be specific about what decision...

Islamic Philosophy / Social EpidemiologyIbn Khaldun & Robert Sapolsky (synthesized)

Ibn Khaldun, the 14th-century North African historian, noticed something that took medicine another five centuries to fully reckon with: that human beings are so thoroughly shaped...

In the last week, whose social circumstances did you actually investigate — not document, but genuinely try to...

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