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Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it. The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state. What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it. Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure. In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

Los científicos japoneses acaban de descubrir noticias impactantes sobre el cabello gris. Es literalmente tu cuerpo eligiendo la supervivencia sobre el cáncer. Aquí tienes todo lo que necesitas saber (& cómo mantener tu cabello oscuro):

Evlenirsen pişman olursun. Evlenmezsen de pişman olursun. Çocuk yapsan da yapmasan da pişman olursun. Kierkegaard bunu 200 yıl önce şöyle söylemiştir: "Neyi seçersen seç pişman olursun. Çünkü sorun tercihlerinde değil yaşanmamış bir hayatı romantize etmendir. İnsan her daim gidilmemiş bir yolu cazibeli ve gizemli bulur. Bu yüzden mesele en doğru seçimi yapman değil. Hangi pişmanlıkla yaşayacağını seçip karar vermendir." Sen neye karar verdin?

San na ba ung discussion about Philippine flora? Ang ganda ng illustrations from this book. 😍

Pax Silica: America’s Silicon Leash on the Philippines — Eternal Vassal State 2.0 Pax Silica isn’t partnership. It’s straight-up colonialism with better marketing. US-driven “secure” supply chains mean Philippine land handed over on long-term leases where only the USA has jurisdiction. Extraterritorial enclaves. US common law zones. Diplomatic immunity for their ops. Philippine sovereignty? Sold for scraps. As I detailed in my full breakdown of the leverage collar: x.com/angeloinchina/status/2… Thousands of acres in New Clark City carved out for US-led semiconductors, AI, and critical minerals. Filipino nickel, copper, cobalt ripped from the ground to feed America’s tech supremacy while locals get stuck with low-value assembly, pollution, and zero control over the profits or IP. EDCA bases expanding, US missiles on Philippine soil, nuclear pacts, energy deals — the full vassal package. The Philippines isn’t climbing any ladder. It’s becoming America’s forward base and minerals quarry in the silicon war on China. This is the same old script. Marcos Jr. following daddy’s footsteps: US wealth frozen as leverage, now repaid with full-spectrum surrender. 99-year zones, US jurisdiction on sovereign soil, turning the country into the next Ukraine proxy against its biggest trading partner. My full analysis on how the US engineered the perpetual vassal state: x.com/angeloinchina/status/2… Celebrating “independence” while hosting occupation troops and signing away jurisdiction? Pure slave mentality. Deeper dive into the puppet master dynamics and controlled transition: x.com/angeloinchina/status/1… Pax Silica sells “stability and innovation.” Reality: dependency, resource drain, higher war risk, and the total erosion of real sovereignty. Filipinos deserve development on their own terms — not as Washington’s disposable silicon colony. Time to break the chain. Real independence or permanent vassal? The choice is clear.

LeBron really wore this shirt with the Cavs down 3-1 in the FINALS to the 73 win Warriors… Exactly 10 years ago today 👑

A psychologist recently explained something interesting why 90s kids developed different thinking patterns than Gen Z, largely because of games. Back then, no autosaves, no hints, just three lives. Games like Super Mario Bros. and Prince of Persia taught: fail, restart, keep going you had to earn progress. Games like Tetris and The Legend of Zelda trained maps and patterns, building memory, navigation, and patience. Finish a level turn off the console. No infinite dopamine. Play was social: one couch, one screen, real conflict and cooperation. Today, games like Fortnite and Roblox are endless, with autosaves and reward systems that keep you playing. They hold attention but don’t train completion the same way. The difference is simple: 90s kids built focus and tolerance for failure, while today’s players are shaped by constant stimulation. What do you think about this?

It was posted in Filipino. Just run it through Google Translate. 🤣 😭

Wildcard news! Alex Eala is heading to Berlin. We can't wait to welcome her! 💚

En japon, el gorila kiyomasa se peleo con su mujer Lo echo de su guarida del zoologico Y despues lo captaron sentado replanteandose la vida

Sino ba may ari and contractor netong Euro Towers pati na din mga Archi and Engrs.

Your brain basically stopped recording your life around age 25. Everything since then is a blur for a reason. Neuroscientists measured this so many times they named it: the reminiscence bump. Ask anyone over 60 to recall their strongest memories and almost every answer clusters between ages 15 and 25. The decade where everything was new. First job, first apartment, first real relationship. Your brain encoded each day because nothing had a template yet. After that window closes, most people enter a repetition loop. Same commute, same office, same weekend rhythm. The brain stops recording repeated experiences as distinct events. A year with 300 novel days leaves 300 memory anchors. A year with 10 leaves 10. Both took 365 days to live. Only one of them will exist when you look back. This is why people at 50 say "where did the time go." The time went into routine that felt like living but left almost nothing behind. Your remaining years are fixed. How many your brain bothers to remember is entirely up to you.

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🇮🇩🇵🇭 Tsunami came to Indonesia following the earthquake in the southern Philippines Maritime agencies instructed boat owners to save their boats Not sure how are they going to save them, though...

Foi, até agora.. um dos melhores produtos que já usei na minha pele, ever. Única vez que senti que precisava usar foi aos 28 anos. Tô com 32, com cara de 25 só por causa do retinol. Passou dos 28 anos?? Use sem dó. Vai te economizar de fazer procedimentos. - Eu - usei da SALLVE.

it doesn't drive you crazy how fast night changes😭

The perfect week for Alex Eala at the Lexus Birmingham Open 🫶🏆 Next up for Alex… #HSBCChampionships 👀

Welcome, Mirra 🧡 #RolandGarros

From qualifying all the way to the final, what an astonishing run from Maja 💫 #RolandGarros

Humans are 200,000 times more sensitive to petrichor, the smell that follows rain, than sharks are to the smell of blood.