6 hours ago ShareSave Simi Jolaoso, Jack Goodmanand Sarah Buckley,BBC Eye Investigations ShareSave Chance Letikva Warning: Disturbing content A little boy faces the camera. He is pale and has no hair. “I am seven years old and I have cancer,” … Read more
By Hannah Richardson BBC News education reporter Children should be allowed to get bored so they can develop their innate ability to be creative, an education expert says. Dr Teresa Belton told the BBC cultural expectations that children should be … Read more
Drama and the Birth Rate Elizabeth Ney, “Lady Macbeth” (1905) Malthus and Macbeth “How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?” So L.C. Knights asked in a famous lecture on Shakespeare, delivered in 1933. The purpose of his talk wasn’t to answer … Read more
When Sanyu Musoke thinks of her teen years, she remembers loneliness, particularly as she stepped into the role of caregiving for her mentally ill mother and, later, her disabled father. For a while, she left school to focus on helping … Read more
In recent weeks, I’ve published a series of articles on “dopamine culture”—the fast-paced scrolling and swiping behavior promoted by Big Tech. I’ve argued that they are doing this to instill addictive behavior. These interfaces operate like slot machines at a … Read more
[Preface from Jon Haidt:] In April 2023 I was invited to give a lecture at the University of British Columbia. As long as I was flying out to Vancouver, I wanted to meet Professor Mariana Brussoni, who had been writing … Read more
For decades, Carnegie Mellon University viewed whether a student applicant was related to alumni as an “important” or “considered” factor in admissions decisions. But it appears that legacies, as children or relatives of alumni are called, no longer have an … Read more
Science has long presumed that children living in cities grow faster and healthier than rural kids—but that trend has flipped over the past three decades, a new study suggests. A global study published Wednesday in Nature found that the average … Read more
ABSTRACT Excessive attention to the animal versus plant binary food choice reflects society’s moral views on eating right. To claim that avoidance of animal products is required to prevent chronic disease is not supported by evidence, makes little sense from … Read more
The attempt to determine the nature and extent of the genetic effects of the atomic bombs detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is at this writing by any one of several criteria far and away the most extensive exercise in genetic … Read more