By Howard Bloom Education Week reports that we are in a student mental health crisis.  So does the surgeon general.  Will taking cellphones away from kids while they’re in school help us get out of this crisis?   I asked the science search engine Consensus to do a survey of studies on school cellphone bans and mental
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By Howard Bloom Anger is on the rise in 2024.  Ask ChatGPT or the search engine for scientific studies, Consensus, and they will feed you great gobs of information showing that anger in America is reaching record highs.   What’s more, they will tell you that much of the anger scientists have studied recently is based on
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By Howard Bloom In January, eight months ago, Nikki Haley said, ‘The first party to retire its 80-year-old candidate is going to be the one who wins this election.’ Nikki Haley may be right.   The Democratic National Convention that took place at the United Center in Chicago the week of August 19th demonstrated something no
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By Howard Bloom Australia has us beat.   When it comes to how long you can expect to live, you’d expect America to come out on top.  Far from it.   In a new study of life-expectancy in six English-speaking countries,  America does not come in first, second, or even third.  We come in last.  Dead last. The new study, which
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By Howard Bloom We are waiting for the other shoe to drop while Iran is lining up its ducks. Hamas’ political leader Ismael Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31st, just over a week ago.  Iran’s Supreme Leader vowed to “avenge his blood” and said that Iran would hit Israel with a “severe punishment.” The head of
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Joe Biden’s Oval Office Speech By Howard Bloom Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech Wednesday, July 24th, was more powerful than those who hate him may realize.  It was powerful for a simple reason: it focused on the importance of four forgotten American virtues: truth, character, decency and democracy.  It was a speech about what Joe Biden
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By Howard Bloom, Founder and Chair, Space Development Steering Committee, Co-founder Asian Space Technology Summit, and Erinn van Wynsberghe, Founder, VanWyn Technologies NASA recently announced the discontinuation of its VIPER lunar rover project, a rover built to prospect the moon for a precious space commodity, water.  NASA cited cost overruns and launch delays. The decision to abandon
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It would be an understatement to say that Hey Dudes are controversial. For every Reddit thread that’s filled with people complaining about the shoes, there’s a number of die-hard fans defending the brand. But, even if they’re polarizing, it’s nonetheless true that the ultra-comfortable shoes have slowly but surely been taking over the world since
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Terribly sad news from the world of television today, as comedy legend Bob Newhart has passed away at the age of 94. It’s impossible to overstate the impact of the accountant-turned-comic, who influenced generations of comedians with his wry observations and deadpan delivery. After gaining fame with his 1960 standup album The Button-Down Mind of
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We are inundated by media updates about global warming, from statistical warnings and satellite images to news and weather reports on the latest storms, fires and floods. These ever-present alerts often focus on what’s happening to the land, but what about threats to the unique ecosystems of our oceans? This vast water world is the
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