2016/2017 on CNN was crazy, man. They had Angela Rye yelling and clapping at everyone. You look back at those clips and it’s so so cringeworthy, my God.
Among adolescents in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, increasing #SocialMedia use, regardless of initial baseline, was associated with modestly reduced cognitive performance on multiple NIH Toolbox assessments, including reading recognition, episodic memory, and vocabulary.
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Among adolescents in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, increasing #SocialMedia use, regardless of initial baseline, was associated with modestly reduced cognitive performance on multiple NIH Toolbox assessments, including reading recognition, episodic memory, and vocabulary.
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Charlamagne tha God tells Andrew Schulz he’s not Victor Wembanyama should be the face of the NBA. He doesn’t relate to the culture, he’s a foreigner, and he does all these gimmicks walking barefoot in the garden drawing in the park etc
A FIFA World Cup host country must guarantee two fundamental principles: the safety of the country — and the unrestricted entry of all qualified teams, officials and referees. The case of referee Omar Artan from Somalia is against one of these obligations. FIFA must never compromise the universality of football. #Fifa#Somalia#GianniInfantino#CAF#OmarAtan#DonaldTrump
Sports betting is a scourge.
Legalization reduced food sufficiency by 2.1% among working-age adults without a college degree, especially during the NFL season.
That translates into an estimated 284,000 additional food-insufficient households in 9 states.
This thread suggests that gifted & talented programs are not about higher quality instruction or further developing one’s gifts. It’s about concentrating social capital in a similar way that expensive private schools do. Chetty’s works shows how much advantage comes with it…
It does change the class characteristics, I'm curious what the OLS predicted effect is on math just from being in a class with 1.5 fewer students, and higher SES classmates.
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NIH invested over $95 million in 81 projects on #UltraprocessedFoods from 2016 to 2025, with most research linking ultraprocessed food intake to #Obesity and #Diabetes, but few studies testing interventions in food environments.
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ALT Bar and line graph showing Total dollars awarded and Projects per fiscal year from 2016-2025. Dollars awarded generally rose from 2016 to a peak in 2024, then fell in 2025. Projects per year fluctuated, peaking in 2021 and 2023, then decreasing.
Very unfortunate that the Stand Up for Sudan Act has been lost in the news cycle. This is a necessary bill in order to end the violence in what the UN has called “the epicenter of human suffering in the world”. Please call your congressperson and ask them to co-sponsor the bill
Hospital water systems were the primary source of Mycobacterium abscessus infection in transplant recipients, with patient strains genetically linked to tap water rather than person-to-person transmission.
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ALT Three phylogenetic trees show MAB subspecies abscessus (A, circular) and massiliense (B, circular) global phylogenies with continent and DCC type. Tree C details DCC7 phylogeny with country/US region data, showing subclones and clusters.
In decent news, the New York Times ran the first letter to the editor I've ever sent them. In bad news, more American men under 50 gambled on sports than read a book last year.
ALT To the Editor:
Brian Bannon is correct that to rekindle a national passion for reading we must go further than simply directing individuals to read more. But while “we don’t need new inventions to build a reading city,” access to books and reading programs is not sufficient. We must radically reimagine how we value our most precious personal resources: time, energy, effort and attention.
Reading requires sustained time and attention that other pastimes don’t. In an age of rapid scrolling, the grind of work and mind-numbing chatbots, reading requires making a choice to disengage from the noise of modern society.
The public and private sectors have a role to play. Federal policy should shape a more curious and less time-constrained citizenry through increased education funding, free college, a 32-hour workweek and a lower retirement age.
Only when we have sufficient time and attention will we return to reading.
Sam Weinberg
Washington
You ever wonder how much the sex gap in clinical trial enrollment/participation could be attributable to the frequent (and often warranted!) exclusion of pregnant women? At any given point, about 4% of women in the US are pregnant. Value neutral point, I just wonder.
In a new Focus, researchers identify opportunities to repair the substantial gap in scientific knowledge about women’s health—a disparity that they attribute to the fact that precision medicine still does not adequately consider female biology. scim.ag/4opQKFm
A family farm donated 87 acres of land to the city of Taylor, Texas to be made into a public park.
The city sold it for $10 million to build a 135,000 square foot data center.
Platner wrote a ton about his political beliefs on Reddit. He didn’t think it’d be read. He was a woke BLM guy who talked about the struggles of LGBT marines & got into arguments with Holocaust revisionists. There is no Nazi on earth who would talk like this. It’s dispositive.
It’s notable that a whole Reddit account was uncovered where Platner made some posts that don’t show him in the greatest light, but not a single post points to any Nazi ideology whatsoever. You’d have to think an actual Nazi would have been posting some Nazi stuff, right?