Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars

Are smartphones giving you popcorn brain?

Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars
Social media may be trapping us in a cycle of loneliness, new study suggests
Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars
Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.
  • Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars

    Are smartphones giving you popcorn brain?

    “It’s because the content on these platforms is so addictive, and every like, comment, and share triggers dopamine release in the brain. This constant stimulation trains the brain to crave instant rewards. Hence, the slower tasks feel dull, leading to popcorn brain.”

  • Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars

    Social media may be trapping us in a cycle of loneliness, new study suggests

    “I think the major takeaway from our study should be that social media use is a poor substitute for person-to-person interaction. Our results suggest that no matter how one uses social media—actively or passively—such use leads to higher levels of loneliness." That’s what James A. Roberts, professor and researcher, Baylor University, told PsyPost.

  • Hard Times Generation: Families living in cars

    Schools closed and went remote to fight COVID-19. The impacts linger 5 years later.

    “These are kids who spent most of their formative years – kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, when you’re supposed to be learning social skills – not learning them. They don’t have those social skills,” Wendy Gonzalez, an elementary school teacher in Richmond, CA. said that as a result of remote learning during the pandemic, many of her students didn’t “know how to talk to each other.”

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  • Giving Thanks Helps Your Psychological Outlook

    Expressing gratitude is good for you.  Just ask University of Miami psychology professor Michael McCullough whose done extensive research on the subject:  “It does make people happier…it’s that incredible feeling.”  Maryann Troiani, a Chicago area psychologist and self-help author, is quoted as saying:  “Gratitude really changes your attitude and your outlook on life.”  That’s why

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  • In Hard Times, Americans Still Thankful

    The people profiled in this article- including people who have faced layoffs, car accidents, and the loss of a loved one- have moved beyond their issues to embrace the holiday spirit. Though life may at times present hardships, how is it that some people are able to rise above them and find gratitude in their

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  • Spacing Siblings At Least Two Years Apart Makes Kids Smarter

    Everyone has their own opinions on how many years apart in age children should be to create the optimal situation for the kids as they grow-up together and as they develop separately.  Up until now, those opinions have just been conjecture, but Kasey Buckles, assistant Professor at Notre Dame, has used scientific reasoning to determine

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  • Finding Your Happiness with Chicken Soup for the Soul

    The new book, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness, discusses the root of personal happiness and explains how important it is for everyone to find their own happiness-triggers.  These triggers could be hobbies, helping others, or any other activity that brings you to a state of joy. Inside Edition, 11/22/2011

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  • The power of nostalgia at Thanksgiving

    The power of nostalgia at Thanksgiving

    According to nutritional psychologists and researchers at the University of Southampton, nostalgia (as experienced at Thanksgiving) fills a very important need to belong and feel socially connected, and is actually good for our mental health.

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  • It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff

    Jane Brody discusses the new book, The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life, which she recommends for anyone coping with a cluttering problem, and summarizes some of the de-cluttering methods she's found most useful. The author of the book discussed is Robin Zasio, a clinical psychologist, star of the show

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  • Sole Survivors: Adult Orphans Preserve, Adapt Traditions

    Melinda Beck looks at "adult orphans" who have lost both their parents and their siblings, making them the last leaf on their family tree. At holidays, there's a certain sadness that nobody else knows the particular traditions. The Wall Street Journal, 11/22/2011

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  • Taylor Swift sees fame as a responsibility

    Music sensation Taylor Swift tells Lesley Stahl that she is reminded of her status as role model every day and takes it very seriously. During her interview on "60 Minutes," Swift, who ended up being named Artist of the Year at the American Music Award show televised Sunday night, says "the truth is that every

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  • Bullying Moves From Online to Text-Messaging: Study

    Bullying continues to plague our children, and as they become more technologically-inclined, so does virtual-bullying.  A new study into virtual-bullying both online and by text-message shows that kids aged 10-15 years are being increasingly harassed through these technological mediums.  Additionally, "unwanted sexual solicitation" from text-messages has increased by 1.9 times, from 2006 to 2008. HealthDay, 11/21/2011

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  • Patients, too, turn to the Internet for fund-raising

    With a few keystrokes, friends and strangers can help defray treatment costs for patients who have started fund-raising campaigns on web sites like IndieGoGo, which is becoming increasingly popular. The New York Times, 11/21/2011

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  • Shakira Travels to India to Support Education for Girls

    UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Shakira has been an advocate for education for quite a while, from traveling to the Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem to talk about “Education for Peace” to donating $400,000 to a school in Haiti. In her most recent endeavor, she traveled to India to meet with adolescent girls and discuss the importance

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  • A Watch-and-Wait Prostate Treatment

    Amidst all the controversy over whether men should be screened for prostate cancer with the PSA blood test, this story explains what "active surveillance" entails and how to know when it's an option. The article also explores the diet, nutrients, and supplements that Dr. Aaron Katz, director for the Center of Holistic Urology at Columbia

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  • Could a worm hold the key to living longer?

    By studying the roundworm, biochemist Dr. Cynthia Kenyon and her team have pinpointed a combination of rare genes that seem to counter the effects of aging. ABC News, 11/17/2011

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  • Johnson & Johnson to nix baby product contaminant within 2 years

    Earlier this month a consumer group urged Johnson & Johnson to remove a preservative called quaternium-15, which is considered to be a possible trigger for certain cancers and skin allergies, from its baby shampoo.  In response, J & J says it plans to eliminate the formaldehyde-releasing preservatives from hundreds of its baby products within two

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  • A Nursing Home Shrinks Until It Feels Like a Home

    Toni Davis is the director of the Green Hill Retirement Community in West Orange, NJ, and what she has done there is truly inspiring. She has made changes that have greatly improved the lives of the residents and their sense of well-being (and that of their loved ones who comes to visit) while keeping her

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