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When Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Crash the Party0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- July 6, 2012
Is it OK to discretely check your smartphone at a dinner party? Is it acceptable to take some cellphone photos of the table settings and other guests and tweet them live from the party without asking others to use their likeness? Katherine Rosman looks at how people are policing these issues. She writes about one
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When Does Playing Contact Sports Put Your Brain at Risk?0
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- October 9, 2025
From The NY Times: “Two studies published on Wednesday raise concerns about the consequences of repeated minor head impacts in athletes. The findings suggest that damage to the brain can occur well before, or independent of, a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E.”
READ MOREWhen Being Alone Turns Into Loneliness, There Are Ways to Fight Back0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- November 10, 2013
When does spending time by yourself transition to full-blown loneliness? In her column, writer Elizabeth Berstein explores loneliness and what we can do to prevent feeling lonely.
READ MOREWhen a hysterectomy is a death sentence0
- Health & Healing
- February 21, 2014
Having a hysterectomy used to mean 4 to 6 weeks of recovery time. Then along came a new procedure called morcellation, which allows the uterus to be removed through an incision in the belly button. This medical advance was greeted as welcoming news for women who could now recover in a little as 3 to 5 days. While tens of thousands of women each year currently opt for morcellation, for some it can prove deadly.
READ MOREWhen a friend grieves, how to get sympathy right0
- Lifestyle & Relationships
- January 27, 2011
Read on to learn about the ways to properly console someone in a time of need. The Wall Street Journal, 1/25/2011
READ MOREWhat’s Lost as Handwriting Fades0
- Home & Family
- June 19, 2014
Teaching children handwriting has been an accepted and integral part of early childhood education. But the Common Core Standards that many schools have now adopted no longer require that cursive handwriting be taught past kindergarten and first grade. Is that a good idea? Do we take a practice that has proved tried and true for many generations of students and dismiss it for 2nd graders? Would children benefit more in the long run by continuing to learn cursive handwriting as they’re being introduced to typing at a keyboard?
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