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
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
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
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
Businesses including banks, airlines, telecommunications companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline following a mass global outage. Major US airlines including American Airlines, Delta Airlines and United Airlines have been grounded, while airports in Germany and Spain are also reporting issues. In the UK, Southern, Thameslink, Gatwick Express and Great Northern
The virus that causes polio has been detected in sewage samples in Gaza, according to its health ministry. It said tests had been carried out with UNICEF and that the finding “exposes thousands of residents to the risk of contracting poliomyelitis”. It warned of a potential “new health disaster” if action isn’t taken. Polio mainly
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
The man who tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan has disavowed violence in the wake of the attempt on Donald Trump’s life. John Hinckley Jr, who wounded the former US president during an attack in 1981, wrote on X: “Violence is not the way to go. Give peace a chance.” The post on Wednesday came days after Mr Trump
Families of two British men missing in Sweden are appealing for information on their whereabouts – amid fears they were victims of a double murder. It comes after two bodies were found in a burnt-out car in Malmo on Sunday afternoon. Emergency workers noticed a possible bullet hole in one of the victims, according to
Rare images of an uncontacted tribe show its members face “humanitarian disaster” as loggers encroach on their territory, a British human rights group has warned. According to local campaigners, the Mascho Piro indigenous tribe have been sighted coming out of the rainforest in their remote part of the Peruvian Amazon in recent weeks in search
Two murder victims who were reportedly shot dead before being found in a burnt-out car in Sweden are British, according to local media. Police have launched a double-murder investigation after they discovered two people dead on Sunday afternoon in Malmo. Responding to reports of a fire, emergency services only discovered the bodies as they were
At least six people have been found dead at a hotel in Bangkok. The bodies of the six people – all Vietnamese nationals – were discovered in Thailand’s capital on Tuesday. An initial report that there had been a shooting was dismissed by a local police official. “There is no sign of a shooting,” the
Within minutes, what should have been a regular rally for Donald Trump quickly spiraled into a deadly assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. Using videos from the ground and aerial imagery, Sky News details what we know about the security efforts before and during the attack. Our analysis found police vehicles were parked as close as 20m/65ft
Rescue workers searching for missing British teenager Jay Slater in Tenerife have found a body and are trying to identify it, Spanish police have told Sky News. “Evidence strongly suggests” the remains are those of the 19-year-old, officers added. Police said in a statement: “The mountain rescue and intervention group of the Civil Guard has
Donald Trump has arrived in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention a day after he was targeted in an attempted assassination at a campaign event. His plane touched down on Sunday, the day before the four-day event kicks off with thousands of Republicans coming together to formally elect him as their 2024 presidential nominee. X This content
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