‘Our children are less cognitively capable,’ says neuroscientist who wants to cut screen use in schools Jared Cooney Horvath is on a mission. In the wake of global campaigns for smartphone bans in schools and social media restrictions for under-16s, the neuroscientist wants to raise the alarm about educational technology in classrooms. A former teacher, [ ]
Are We Offloading Critical Thinking to Chatbots? In January, researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University posted a study online on how artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT affect critical thinking. They wanted to know how knowledge workers — people who rely on their intellectual skills for their jobs — were interacting with the tools. And [ ]
Shame, Stigma, and Culture Prevent Male Domestic Violence Survivors From Seeking Help A new large-scale study identifies the primary barriers that prevent male victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) from seeking help. Researchers found that viewing the abuse as a private matter was the top barrier across all racial and ethnic groups studied. Understanding these [ ]
Being in a crowd doesn’t make you part of a mindless mob You’re in the crowd at the cup final, supporting your football team, when your side suddenly scores. Instantly, you join thousands of others in the stadium roaring with joy: you hug the stranger standing next to you, you jump up and down, you’re [ ]
Do We Have a FOMO or FEMO S P 500 Bull Market? Looking at today’s S P bull market, we can ask if it’s FOMO or FEMO.On Friday, the S P 500 closed at a record high of 7757.64. As a bull market, historically, it fits in the middle:The late 1990s had what economist Dr. Ed Yardeni calls [ ]
Digital Money Does Not Erase Debt A retired woman opens her public digital wallet. The payment has arrived. It did not come from a bank loan. It brought no interest. It required no collateral. It did not transform the next months of her life into installments. The State recognized a social obligation and deposited public [ ]
Sugar, Not Just Meat, Fueled Growth of Human Brain, New Study Argues Sugars from fruit and honey, not just meat, likely provided the glucose essential for fueling the growth of increasingly large human brains over 4 million years of evolution. Pregnant and breastfeeding females required significantly more dietary carbohydrates than adult males, suggesting that sugar [ ]
Psychology says people who try to save every penny they can aren t just trying to build wealth: What this behavior means and teaches us? Psychology says people who try to save every penny they can aren t always driven by financial planning alone. Saving money can be useful when it is part of a clear financial [ ]
Stop Bankrolling Your Adult Child s Stuck Life Back in 1973, Pink Floyd built an entire song around the strange hold that money has over us. He sang about how it can dominate a person s thinking, even when no one s talking about it out loud. Half a century later, I hear that same undertone in almost [ ]
When To Ban a Fast Food Drive-Through Concerned with 26-car lineups clogging residential streets, the city council in Culver City, California proposed a drive-through ban. They wanted to prevent In-N-Out Burger from opening a new location. Culver City is not the first California community to consider the ban. Santa Monica and Santa Barbara have one [ ]