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September 22, 2022

Great Idea: If a Student Can Be Absent when Down with a Fever, He Can Be Absent when Depressed

The pandemic has created new recognition for depression amongst the young. “Now parents can be honest and say, ‘My student is struggling today.’”...

September 21, 2022

Heart

I saw an x‑ray of my skull. Seeing one’s x-ray, or receiving any kind of medical report can be unsettling....

September 20, 2022

Multivitamin Supplementation Shown to Improve Cognition

This new study stands out in its size and robustness: it was a proper randomized, placebo-controlled trial; it lasted three years, and it encompassed more than 2,000 participants....

September 19, 2022

Helping the Country, a Mountain at a Time

THEY ARE MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS who stumbled upon communities literally beyond the reach of government. They saw children who were out of school. So they decided they would bring what they could up the mountains. Like school supplies and food. And like all good ideas, that seedling grew into a forest......

September 19, 2022

Colombia Wants to Fight Poverty with a Wealth Tax

Nobel Prize winning economist Thomas Piketty advising newly installed president Gustavo Petro...

September 18, 2022

What I Want to Do Most of the Time

How many children feel this way about their parents?...

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