Does any normal person need a device to tell them they are stressed and emotional?
I have a solution:
In your wallet or purse where you store your money... place a card saying "Are you eating out of stress? again?" maybe with a little photo of something motivational on it. Just in case you are not aware of your feelings at the time you are hungry.

Or instead of all that tech cost. pay somebody to explain how your anxiety makes you feel hungry.

Tenure historically was important for arts and philosophy. The idea was that you could say things that were unpopular in safety because nobody could fire you.

Research professors don't really have terribly meaningful tenure anyway, because if you aren't performing you can't get grants and/or the university may deny you students. Either of those essentially means you're washed up.

You've got the problem right, but I disagree with the solution. We need to dilute professors.

Instead of being a postdoc for ten years and then either leaving broken and broke or scoring the big one (and getting to slave away for another twenty years as junior faculty...) make post doc a two year post-post-graduate thing. After that you become a professor. "Professor" stops meaning "old dude who writes grants" and starts meaning "person who does research and teaches." Grants get broken up into smaller pieces, so instead of one professor being responsible for keeping funding that keeps ten, fifteen or twenty students, post docs and techs fed, each professor gets personal operating funds. Professors have one or two students (or none) and do active research themselves.

The current position of "professor" is really a pretty crappy one that I don't think many who actually like doing science really want (I don't). What they DO want is the ability to apply for funding to support their research, get paid a reasonable wage, and maybe have students.

I've thought of the same thing. Put in the charter that all administrators must be academics in good standing, where good standing means they're doing productive research, as assessed by randomly assigned peer-reviewers.

Me too. I was unwise enough to choose to do longitudinal human research. I'm competing with people whose papers require data from ten mice over a couple of weeks. Or better yet, some Excel jockeying on data somebody else spent time collecting.

I got frustrated once and explained to the project PI (a physician) on a group teleconference once what had been done, and what had yet to be done, for a paper. There was silence, then "uh, that sounds like, uh, a lot of work."

Peer review. Which is how it's supposed to be done, except that the peer reviewers know that the administrators are going to count papers, and anyway, they can't take too much time to do a good job because they have to get some papers published.

The system needs some intelligence. Academic performance should be reviewed by peers rather than by numbers. Just like performance reviews in industry, a bright person or two taking a tour is a lot better than someone looking down the columns in a spreadsheet and seeing "comrade, you haven't made your bi-daily quota!"

Absolutely. Someone else already has the patent on adjusting prices depending on someone's net usage.

Statistics doesn't pigeon-hole you. It discovers what factors tend to influence people grouped with you, by how much, and how reliably. Like psychohistory, it only works on groups, the larger the better. The "pigeon-hole" is fuzzy and somewhat arbitrary. You still (maybe) have free will and are an individual... just like everybody else.

In active use, my experience has been that platters usually degrade because the heads get parked on a park ramp one too many times, snap off the head arm, and then get dragged across the surface of the disk.... Want your disks to last for decades? Park the heads infrequently or not at all.

But even in the absence of actual use, eventually, even on a hard disk, the bits are likely to get corrupted by random stray cosmic rays and possibly superparamagnetism. Of course, any real data loss is likely to take decades, if not centuries.

Despite driving, biking and taking transit, I didn't really know this city until I started running through it randomly. You go down a lot of little side streets you'd never see unless you were trying to keep a 30 km run interesting.

That is one approach. You might change your mind when some unregulated company sells you bad heart medication though. Or contaminated ibuprofen.

You didn't have chicken pox like I did then. I skipped two weeks of school all right. And I spent a lot of the time in front of the TV, true, mostly because I couldn't walk because I had pox on the bottoms of my feet. Oh, and in my nose and ears.

I spent almost as much time in cold baths as in front of the TV though, because the doctor said if we couldn't keep my fever down I'd have to go to the hospital and they used ice baths. Silver lining though - it washed off the coating of calamine lotion so I could apply a fresh one.'

Kids today don't know how lucky they've got it. Avoid chicken pox with a little jab. Of course, I had it pretty easy too. One of my friends' fathers had been crippled by polio.

Some risks are trivially avoidable. Being an idiot isn't "growing a pair," it's being an idiot. Not getting vaccinated is particularly stupid because you expose other people to risk, not just yourself.

I jump off mountains and travel to places where a mosquito bite can kill you. I've got all my vaccinations.

It's okay, the light creates the clouds too.