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By Howard Bloom Tuesday’s debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was not a battle of words, it was a battle of body language.   The facial language and the body language of Harris signaled strength, confidence, and authority.  Those are usually the facial and body language signals we get from Donald Trump.  But not Tuesday night. Tuesday night,
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                                                                     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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By Howard Bloom There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids.   It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and
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A judge in Florida has dismissed the criminal case relating to classified documents that were found at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. Mr Trump had been accused of illegally holding onto classified documents. It represents another major legal victory as the Republican seeks a return to the White House. Florida-based US District Aileen Cannon, who was
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