Alexandra Moe

If You Must Play One Sport, Make It Tennis The longer you play, the more it will do for your health.

"A Danish study from 2018 found that tennis players lived nearly a decade longer than their sedentary peers—and also longer than swimmers, cyclers, and joggers. No other sport in the analysis was correlated with such a large boost to life expectancy."

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If You Must Play One Sport, Make It Tennis The longer you play, the more it will do for your health.

For @theatlantic, I wrote about how tennis wins in straight sets for your health, and not only because tennis players live longer. Tennis is having a resurgence in America, where 1 in 12 people play, 70% on public courts. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...htt

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

This is great.

Carter “really did strike a blow for decency” and showed great “humility,” Walter added, which doesn’t necessarily translate into a “great rap song or a great biopic.”

Our top stories of 2024 In 2024, Harvard Public Health drew record numbers of visitors, many of them coming to read our top stories of 2024.

Very pleased my feature on men's grief "People Forget About the Fathers" was named a top story of 2024 by Harvard Public Health Mag. Big thanks @mffitzgerald.bsky.social and @itsjina.bsky.social

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This is beautiful.

“People forget about the fathers.” For generations of American men, grieving a child’s death was something to bury. With the Sad Dads Club, they can now discuss it in the open.

For Harvard Public Health Mag, I wrote about grassroots work to help men live with their grief.The Sad Dads Club members spoke with profound vulnerability that, a generation ago, would have been buried in expectations to “move on.” They grieve, celebrate joy. harvardpublichealth.org/mental-healt...

A winning mix: High standards, high support “Positive discomfort” is the idea that full potential lies on the other side of being challenged. But it’s also a leap beyond “no pain, no gain.”

"Full potential lies on the other side of being challenged, yet it’s different from 'no pain, no gain.'"

"What if we could reframe our attitude and see discomfort as a sign of progress?"

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For @washingtonpost.com I wrote about “mentor mindset” in coaching and teaching: high standards mixed with high support. Also, long live print.

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Teaching a Stone to Talk Wherever there is stillness there is the still small voice, nature’s old song and dance … A meditation on silence and other matters.

Good morning! Let’s all read Annie Dillard and then go outside! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Starting my time here on BlueSky with a photo taken of a…blue sky

Starting my time here on BlueSky with a photo taken of a…blue sky