Allen Neuringer is an accomplished behavioral psychologist who has been self-experimenting for over 40 years. From trying to actively control his heart rate to generating ideas through dancing, here’s what he’s learned.
In the third episode of Personal Science Conversations, Sara Riggare, Gary Wolf, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen and Steven Jonas discuss how the personal science intersects with the patient experience. Drawing heavily on Sara’s experience as a person with Parkinson’s in the Swedish healthcare system, we look at how individuals can use their personal observations to inform…
Quantified Self · 002 – Personal Science Conversations – The Worried Well In this second episode of Personal Science Conversations, Gary Wolf, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen and Steven Jonas discuss the concept of the worried well: What is the origin of the term, how do medical professionals define it, and why does it get applied to…
At Quantified Self, we focus on the stories and projects of people in the community: their methods, discoveries, and even the tools that they build. Outside of the Show&Tell talks at our events, though, are constant conversations about everything having to do with personal science. Behind the scenes of this website we have weekly decisions…
Not all foods affect your metablism the same way.
Discovering that his resting heart rate goes down when he walks outside in the morning, Stephen Wolfram figured out how to keep working during that time.
We’ve posted more than thirty new Show&Tell videos from our conference in Portland, including Professor Allen Neuringer’s remarkable opening talk about what he’s learned from thirty years of doing and teaching self-experimentation.
Footage of the highlights from Quantified Self Symposium 2018, where we invited self-trackers, toolmakers, activists, clinicians, scholars, and scientists to explore the impact of everyday science on cardiovascular health.
Join us today (April 19th), starting at 9am for a special all-day event about the intersection between Quantified Self and public health. The sessions will look specifically at cardiovascular health and participant-led research. You can view the entire program here. QS CVD Symposium Live Feed
What We Are Reading Newsletter from September 14, 2017
QS17 is here! We can’t wait to see old friends and meet new people who have never been to a QS conference before. If you are reading this because you are attending QS17, you are in for something special. Our program is filled with engaging talks, fascinating discussions, and informative workshops. Here is a PDF…
QS meetups hosted in Manchester, Austin, and Seattle for the week of May 1, 2017.
The Quantified Self group in Prague will be having a meetup this week. The group’s organizer Jan Pavuk, will distill what he learned at the recent BNA Festival of Neuroscience into practical methods and tools that can be used for people’s QS practice. Thursday, April 27 Prague, Czech Republic QS17 To experience more of this…
It’s hard for me to like an album the first time I listen to it. I can almost feel some part of my brain reject the music, even from bands I like, because it’s not familiar. However, after a few listens, the album will grow on me and I’ll find myself humming melodies that I…
There is a Quantified Self meetup happening in Portland tonight. Mark Leavitt will present an update to his Health E-Seat project (his office chair is a recliner/recumbent bike hybrid). It will feature some in-progress projects on tracking intentions and recording mood and music. The night will end with a talk about my attempt to apply…
Dublin recently put on a fantastic meeting with a couple of great talks about gut health (which you can watch). They are back at it again, with three speakers on bio-markers related to nutrition. Austin’s theme is nutrition as well, with the main talk on a person’s data collected while losing 95 pounds on a…
Earlier this month, the Quantified Self Dublin group got together for an engaging evening of talks on gut health by members of the local medical community. CDSA Explained Francesco Polito, a nutritional therapist, talked about the markers that are found in a Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis (CDSA). This is a test that he has his clients get…
Recently, the Quantified Self community in Belfast came together to learn from an Olympic cyclist on how he used personal data to inform his training. I spoke to Jonathan Bloomfield, QS Belfast’s organizer about how the evening went. Jonny has been running the group since 2015 and was happy to be hosted by Novosco, a…
Last week the QS Bay Area group got together for an evening of Show&Tell talks at the Institute For The Future in Palo Alto. There were talks on gut health, time management, statistics and a self-experimentation lab. The first talk was from Karl Heilbron about a simple experiment where he supplemented his diet with probiotics and had…
The Quantified Self group in Prague will be getting together for a fascinating discussion about Hans Selye‘s work on stress and it how to apply it to one’s life. Denver will be getting together to explore the concept of flow. Monday, March 27 Denver, Colorado Tuesday, March 28 Prague, Czech Republic
