22: Pokemon and public health
Pokemon Go is sweeping the world and getting people walking again! But is the Pokemon Go 'model' a golden opportunity to tackle obesity or just another fad?
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- James plays "Pokemon or Cholesterol medication?" \n
- Dan tries to explain Pokemon Go to James \n
- James' first contact with Pokemon Go "trainers" \n
- Should health interventions be modeled on Pokemon Go? \n
- Other exercise augmented reality health apps \n
- What's the app's endgame? \n
- Can health authorities copy this model? \n
- We make a correction from episode 17: PLoS is in fact a non-profit journal, not a for-profit journal \n
- Dan and James answer two listener questions: i) The dumbest things they've ever done in the lab (both related to email faux pas) ii) How often should lab meetings be run \n
- The importance of PROPERLY piloting your experiment \n
- If you don't know the person in the meeting that takes up too much time, it's probably you. \n
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