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Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press.  The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees.  They are absent more than one
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In 1968 Pope Paul VI established a Global Peace Day. A New Year’s Day on which the Pope gives a speech “reflecting the signs of our times.” Wednesday August 9th, the Vatican put out an announcement about the speech the pope will give at next year’s Peace Day, coming up on January 1st, just four months
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The Washington Post ran a headline Wednesday, August 2, saying Donald “Trump has been indicted before. Historians say this time is different.” Why is this time different? From the Democrat point of view, we are at a turning point in American history. The next 458 days, many Democrats feel, will determine whether we have a
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Digital IDs are sweeping the world, but are barely seeping into America.  This American techno-sluggishness has disturbing implications. We Americans have traditionally led the world with our technologies and our infrastructure.  That is no longer the case.  Our roadways and airports make us look like a third world country.  Even our water and sewage systems are
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Livvy D (Olivia Dunbar), the rising pop country rapper, launches her highly anticipated remix to chart hitting single, “Take A Number,” Featuring Kenna Paige & C4. Benard. “Take A Number,” has a lot of exciting attributes. Aben Eubanks is one of the co-writers on “Take A Number.” Aben is an American Grammy-nominated musician, songwriter-composer, and producer. Aben began
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Cleveland, Ohio, has now been rated the most stressed-out city in America three years in a row. The personal finance company WalletHub compared 182 cities across what it called “four key dimensions” of stress: work stress, financial stress, family stress and health and safety stress.  The five most stressed-out cities in America, WalletHub concluded, are
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In my opinion, the sooner Vladimir Putin leaves the planet the better.  He’s a mass murderer.  But the fact is that Putin has pulled off a miracle. The news media says that the mutiny against Russia’s military leaders on Saturday June 24 shows Putin’s weakness. But that’s dead wrong.  The mutiny shows Vladimir Putin’s strength.  Why? On
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Rupert Murdoch’s US Sun just headlined “The Complete Destruction of the UK in six minutes.”   Why? At 3:00 pm Moscow time on Wednesday, June 22nd, Vladimir Putin gave a speech to the top graduates of Russia’s military universities and military academies.  In that speech, Putin made it clear that he has added nuclear weapons to
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In a new paper published in the Journal of Applied Psychology on Monday, eight researchers from the United States, Singapore, and England studied more than a thousand people in America, Taiwan, Indonesia and Malaysia. The result was a simple bottom line: people in 2021 who worked with the artificial intelligence of the early 2020s as
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Something startling is happening to aging.   90,000 Americans have reached the age of 100.  Which means that you, too, may live that long.  But how? Publicity for a new book on longevity has brought a 2012 study back into the news.  In that study, researchers from Yeshiva University looked at 250 people 98 to
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There’s a reason junk food is called junk.  It isn’t good for you. A new small scale study in Sweden, a study with only fifteen experimental subjects, shows something intriguing.  When you eat a high fat/high sugar diet, a junk food diet, a strange thing happens to your sleep.   You sleep just as long
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There’s a term that used to be applied to mass hysterias, a panic. And we are in a social network panic. The Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, a man who normally stays in the shadows, has issued a 25-page advisory with 104 research references warning of “a profound risk of harm” to
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing
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Two weeks ago, on March 30th, the Atlantic magazine published a story headlined “Why People Are Acting so Weird.”  The article claimed that “Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents [on airplanes], and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently.” Peculiarly, the first example it gave was of Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the Academy
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Three researchers from New York University have shown something startling. You can cut your risk of dementia in half with a simple trick—using the internet for roughly two hours a day. Dementia is a state in which your brain shrinks and your memory gives out on you. It often comes with old age. In extreme
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Someone is trying to end the liberty and freedom of your kids.   On Wednesday April 26th, a bipartisan team that included Hawaii Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton, Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy, and Alabama Republican Katie Britt introduced The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act. An act that strangles the freedom of
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For many years, acetaminophen was considered one of the only safe options for pregnant women in need of pain relief, with roughly 65% of women taking acetaminophen during their pregnancy. However, studies dating back nearly a decade have suggested this may not be entirely true. Research has shown that using acetaminophen during pregnancy may impact
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