// VELOUR — "a little science, on the house." Shared education content.
// Logged-out marketing shows teasers (hook only). Signed-in users (free OR paid)
// get the full claim, a stat, and a real citation. All sources are verified.
// Framed as real-world knowledge nuggets, refreshed on a regular cadence.
const { Card } = window.VelourDesignSystem_380ed4;
const VELOUR_EDUCATION = [
{
id: "automaticity-66-days", pillar: "Rituals", icon: "sun", color: "var(--sage)", fill: "var(--sage-fill)", text: "var(--sage-text)",
teaser: "The “21 days to a habit” rule is a myth.",
claim: "A new behaviour takes about 66 days of repetition — not 21 — before it becomes automatic. Consistency outlasts intensity.",
stat: "~66 days to automatic",
source: "Lally et al., European Journal of Social Psychology (2010)",
url: "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.674",
why: "Repeated daily, a new act took a median of 66 days to feel automatic for the 96 people studied — and missing a single day didn’t set anyone back.",
},
{
pillar: "Rituals", icon: "sun", color: "var(--sage)", fill: "var(--sage-fill)", text: "var(--sage-text)",
teaser: "Willpower fades. A plan doesn’t.",
claim: "Deciding in advance exactly when and where you’ll act — an “if-then” plan — reliably increases follow-through. Across 94 studies it had a medium-to-large effect on reaching goals.",
stat: "“If-then” plans: d ≈ 0.65 on follow-through",
source: "Gollwitzer & Sheeran, Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (2006)",
url: "https://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/goal_intent_attain.pdf",
},
{
// Referenced by id from the dashboard's Rituals × Wellness pattern, 13 Sep
// 2026, replacing sleep-routine-satisfaction there. That paper studied
// sleep-schedule consistency and life satisfaction; this one studied how
// regular the whole DAY is against sleep, which is what the card compares.
// Correlational, and the paper says so — the card says "compare", not "cause".
id: "routine-regularity-sleep", pillar: "Rituals", icon: "sun", color: "var(--sage)", fill: "var(--sage-fill)", text: "var(--sage-text)",
teaser: "A steady day tends to end in a steadier night.",
claim: "Among 100 healthy adults who kept a two-week diary of when their day’s activities happened, those with more regular routines reported fewer sleep problems — and poor sleepers were twice as common among the irregular.",
stat: "Irregular routines: 2× the share of poor sleepers",
source: "Monk et al., Chronobiology International (2003)",
url: "https://doi.org/10.1081/cbi-120017812",
why: "In a study of 100 adults, people whose days ran on a more regular routine reported fewer sleep problems — poor sleepers were twice as common among the irregular.",
},
{
id: "mild-dehydration-mood", pillar: "Wellness", icon: "heart", color: "var(--teal)", fill: "var(--teal-fill)", text: "var(--teal-text)",
teaser: "A little dehydration shows up as a bad mood.",
claim: "Losing as little as ~1.4% of your body weight in water lowered mood and concentration and brought on headaches in a controlled study.",
stat: "~1.4% fluid loss dips mood & focus",
source: "Armstrong et al., The Journal of Nutrition (2012)",
url: "https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.111.142000",
why: "In a controlled study, losing about 1.4% of body weight in water was enough to lower mood and concentration and bring on headaches.",
},
{
// Referenced by id from the Wellness pillar insight (when the day's water is at
// goal). It backed the dashboard's Rituals × Wellness pattern from 12 Sep 2026
// until routine-regularity-sleep replaced it there on 13 Sep: this paper is
// about sleep schedules and life satisfaction, which only loosely matched a
// card comparing morning rituals with sleep. Verified against the paper's own
// host page before adding, not taken from a summary of it.
id: "sleep-routine-satisfaction",
pillar: "Wellness", icon: "heart", color: "var(--teal)", fill: "var(--teal-fill)", text: "var(--teal-text)",
teaser: "A steady sleep schedule shows up in how satisfied you feel, not just how you sleep.",
claim: "University students with more consistent sleep routines reported higher life satisfaction — and nearly half of that link ran through better sleep quality rather than the schedule alone.",
stat: "~44% of the effect runs through sleep quality",
source: "Prokeš, Frontiers in Psychology (2023)",
url: "https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231773",
why: "Among 2,488 students, a steadier sleep routine went with higher life satisfaction — and nearly half of that link ran through better sleep.",
},
{
// Referenced by id from the dashboard's Daylight × Sleep insight. Renaming or
// removing this id drops the reading line there — silently, by design, rather
// than breaking the observation it sits under.
id: "activity-sleep",
pillar: "Wellness", icon: "heart", color: "var(--teal)", fill: "var(--teal-fill)", text: "var(--teal-text)",
teaser: "Moving today is tomorrow’s good sleep.",
claim: "Adults who meet the basic physical-activity guidelines are about 65% less likely to feel overly sleepy during the day.",
stat: "Meeting activity guidelines → ~65% less daytime sleepiness",
source: "Loprinzi & Cardinal, Mental Health and Physical Activity (2011), NHANES",
url: "https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/study-physical-activity-impacts-overall-quality-sleep",
},
{
id: "wear-nine-months", pillar: "Wardrobe", icon: "coat-hanger", color: "var(--amber)", fill: "var(--amber-fill)", text: "var(--amber-text)",
teaser: "The greenest piece is the one you already own.",
claim: "Wearing the clothes you already own just nine months longer cuts their carbon, water and waste footprints by roughly 20–30% each.",
stat: "+9 months wear ≈ 20–30% lower footprint",
source: "WRAP, “Valuing Our Clothes” (UK)",
url: "https://www.wrap.ngo/resources/report/valuing-our-clothes-cost-uk-fashion",
why: "Wearing what you already own nine months longer cuts each piece’s carbon, water and waste footprint by roughly 20–30%.",
},
{
pillar: "Wardrobe", icon: "coat-hanger", color: "var(--amber)", fill: "var(--amber-fill)", text: "var(--amber-text)",
teaser: "We wear our clothes half as long as we used to.",
claim: "Worldwide, the number of times a garment is worn before it’s discarded has fallen about 36% in 15 years — the average piece is now worn only around ten times.",
stat: "Garment use down ~36% in 15 years",
source: "Ellen MacArthur Foundation, A New Textiles Economy (2017)",
url: "https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/a-new-textiles-economy",
},
{
id: "subscriptions-forgotten", pillar: "Efficiency", icon: "currency-circle-dollar", color: "var(--terracotta)", fill: "var(--terracotta-fill)", text: "var(--terracotta-text)",
teaser: "You’re likely paying for something you forgot.",
claim: "People guess they spend about $86 a month on subscriptions, but actually spend around $219 — about $1,600 a year more than they think, and 42% had forgotten one they no longer use.",
stat: "~$1,600/yr more than people think",
source: "C+R Research subscription survey (2022)",
url: "https://www.crresearch.com/blog/subscription-service-statistics-and-costs/",
why: "In a 2022 survey of 1,000 people, 42% had stopped using a subscription and forgotten they were still paying for it.",
},
{
id: "food-away-from-home", pillar: "Efficiency", icon: "currency-circle-dollar", color: "var(--terracotta)", fill: "var(--terracotta-fill)", text: "var(--terracotta-text)",
teaser: "The kitchen table quietly beats the tab.",
claim: "The average U.S. household spends about $3,933 a year on food away from home. Small shifts back to the kitchen add up quickly.",
stat: "~$3,933/yr eating out (avg US household)",
source: "U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Consumer Expenditure Survey (2023)",
url: "https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/consumer-expenditures/2023/",
why: "The average U.S. household spent $3,933 on food away from home in 2023 — the money a packed lunch and home coffee quietly keep.",
},
];
window.VELOUR_EDUCATION = VELOUR_EDUCATION;
// First insight per pillar — used in compact contexts (marketing strip, dashboard inline).
function eduPrimary() {
const seen = {};
return VELOUR_EDUCATION.filter((e) => (seen[e.pillar] ? false : (seen[e.pillar] = true)));
}
function EduIcon({ e, size = 40 }) {
return (
);
}
// Teaser card (logged out) — hook + a locked "citation inside" cue.
function EduTeaserCard({ e }) {
return (
{e.pillar}
{e.teaser}
The stat & citation, inside
);
}
// Full card (signed in) — claim + stat + real citation.
function EduFullCard({ e }) {
return (
{e.pillar}
{e.claim}
{e.stat}
{e.source}
);
}
// Compact section: marketing teaser strip, or dashboard inline "Why these work" (one per pillar).
// mode: "teaser" (logged out) | "full" (signed-in dashboard inline)
function EducationSection({ mode = "teaser", onNavigate, onOpen }) {
const items = eduPrimary();
if (mode === "full") {
return (
Why these work
{items.map((e) => )}
);
}
return (
A little science, on the house
Small things, quietly backed by evidence.
A taste of what VELOUR understands about your day. Start free and every insight comes with its stat and a real citation.
{items.map((e) => )}
);
}
window.EducationSection = EducationSection;
// Full signed-in Education page — all insights, grouped by pillar. Free and paid alike.
function DashEducation() {
const pillars = [];
VELOUR_EDUCATION.forEach((e) => { if (!pillars.find((p) => p.pillar === e.pillar)) pillars.push({ pillar: e.pillar, color: e.color, fill: e.fill, text: e.text, icon: e.icon, items: [] }); });
VELOUR_EDUCATION.forEach((e) => pillars.find((p) => p.pillar === e.pillar).items.push(e));
return (
Education
Why these things work.
Real-world knowledge nuggets behind each pillar — every claim measured, every stat cited. Fresh ones land here regularly, drawn from the research that fits your life, not hype.
{pillars.map((p) => (
{p.pillar}
{p.items.map((e, i) => )}
))}
);
}
window.DashEducation = DashEducation;
// One list, two readers. The dashboard cites entries from here by id rather than
// keeping a second copy of the sources — two lists of citations is how one of
// them ends up wrong.
window.VELOUR_EDUCATION = VELOUR_EDUCATION;