New study finds household plastics linked to heart disease deaths worldwide
- Health & Healing
- May 1, 2025
Back in 2008, Salman Kahn learned that his 12-year-old cousin, Nadia, was struggling with math and that she had switched to a slower class. All that Kahn, an MIT graduate and hedge-fund analyst, wanted to do was was to help Nadia develop her math skills. As Kahn tells The New York Times, before he knew it, many other family members were requesting his tutoring.
READ MOREI Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy, by Lori Andrews, documents the dangers we face today in terms of our loss of privacy on the Internet. New York Post, 1/7/2012
READ MORE“Thomas just wouldn’t do anything other than play on his computer and phone. I’d lock digital devices in my safe, but he would outsmart me.”
READ MOREA new survey has found that 6% of Oregon 8th graders have tried a potentially deadly activity called "the choking game," data which is consistent with previous studies from other states and Canada. Players apply pressure to the main artery in their neck, with a belt, towel, rope, or other item, to limit oxygen and
READ MOREIn this commentary and follow-up to yesterday's Wall Street Journal piece written by Amy Hoak on “How to Make a Lowball Offer," Jenny Pesillo offers some helpful tips to home buyers as she ponders what exactly is considered a lowball offer. San Francisco Chronicle blog, 10/10/2011
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“Every parent wants their baby to be safe, but once the market is flooded with an unsafe product, it’s hard to bring it back. They’re in thrift stores. They’re in daycares. They’re being handed down from sister to brother. They’re everywhere. The impetus should not be on brand-new parents. The impetus should be on the company to make sure that the product is safe in the first place.”
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