Working for the Span

Looking to reduce the behaviors that will accelerate your inevitable one-way journey to nevermore? You can cut back on the bacon, stop smoking, change your sedentary lifestyle. And you can also take your job and shove it. Researchers at Harvard and Stanford have completed a new study which aims to quantify just how much time your current gig is excising from your life span. Depending on factors such as industry, race, and educational status, your career could be costing you up to three years. From WaPo: Your job is literally killing you. (So if you’re reading this at work, NextDraft is literally saving your life.)

+ In The Atlantic, Olga Khazan takes a crack at explaining how stress makes you sick.