Cat Wednesday 2022-08-24 Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may have as […]
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Abortion and Attorneys General Races
2022-08-23 Abortion Is Shaking Up Attorneys General Races and Exposing Limits to Their Powers Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead As the country grapples with states’ newfound power to regulate abortion in the aftermath of this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decision, state attorney general candidates are staking claims on what they’ll do to fight […]
The Obesity Epidemic
2022-08-23 Two surprising reasons behind the obesity epidemic: Too much salt, not enough water Salty french fries may taste good, but they just contribute to dehydration and obesity. William Voon/EyeEm via Getty Images Richard Johnson, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Scientific studies and media coverage are rife with warnings on how sugar, carbohydrates, saturated fat […]
In Tennessee, an Experiment to Manage Behavior with an App
2022-08-23 In Tennessee, an Experiment to Manage Behavior with an App by Katherine Lewis On a chilly morning in January 2020, Principal Stephen Byrd leaned towards the 9th grader sitting across the table in his office. Byrd asked the student, an African American teenager with a sparkly stud in one ear, what had happened. He’d […]
Rural Hospitals
2022-08-22 Some Rural Hospitals Are in Such Bad Shape, Local Governments Are Practically Giving Them Away Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio ERIN, Tenn. — Kyle Kopec gets a kick out of leading tours through the run-down hospitals his boss is snapping up, pointing out what he calls relics of poor management left by […]
Self Improvement Made Easy
Self Improvement Made Easy We hear a lot about transforming ourselves – improving ourselves. This is especially true, as we get older, when you’ve already faced many of life’s battles and you aren’t as full of energy to face challenges as you once were. Don’t worry; we’re going to make self improvement easy, […]
The Mystery of Intelligence: Organic and Inorganic Foundations
The Mystery of Intelligence: Organic and Inorganic Foundations By Robert Depaolo This article discusses a possible aspect of the natural world that transcends the functions of brain and mind, facilitates decision making and intelligent behavior and operates according to electro-information principles. At the root of what could be referred to as […]
Podcast 2022-08-21: Fun with Woke, Trump ans some Televangelists
Podcast 2022-08-21: Fun with Woke, Trump and some Televangelists Pleas visit our YouTube channel Please visit us on Locals
Medical Debt and Lives Changed
2022-08-21 Upended: How Medical Debt Changed Their Lives Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani Loading… Some lost their homes. Some emptied their retirement accounts. Some struggled to feed and clothe their families. Medical debt now touches more than 100 million people in America, as the U.S. health care system pushes patients into debt […]
Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion
2022-08-21 Book Review: A Psychologist Plumbs the Cultural Roots of Emotion by Emily Cataneo When the Australian anthropologist Christine Dureau traveled to the Solomon Islands for research, she brought her toddler along, at first imagining that the universal experience of maternal love would help her relate to the Simbo women living in this foreign culture. […]