There’s a term that used to be applied to mass hysterias, a panic. And we are in a social network panic. The Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, a man who normally stays in the shadows, has issued a 25-page advisory with 104 research references warning of “a profound risk of harm” to
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A new Gallup survey of 5,167 American adults says that depression in the USA has just reached new heights. The percentage of respondents who report having had depression “at some point in their lifetime” has gone up ten points since 2015. It’s now at 29%. In other words, nearly a third of us have been
It would be nice if we could all fight off the forgetfulness and the brain decline of age by simply listening to music, which is what the headline of a story in StudyFinds April 18th promised. Alas that’s not quite what the new study the report is about demonstrates. The new research comes from eleven
Howard Bloom has just launched The Big Bang Tango on Substack to give readers the Truth Behind the Headlines. His job is to surprise you, and he really does. Read The Big Bang Tango by Howard Bloom on Substack here: https://howardxbloom.substack.com/ Howard Bloom of the Howard Bloom Institute has been called the Einstein, Newton, and
One of the highest figures in the American military called it the most disturbing thing he’d seen in his 52 year career. In 2022, China announced that Beijing would triple its number of nuclear weapons by 2035. The Department of Defense took that announcement seriously. In a recent report on “Military and Security Developments”[i] in China,
Twenty years ago in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, four children–Latavia Washington McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, and Eric Williams–were inseparable friends. According to Zindell Brown’s sister, they stuck together “like glue.” Latavia is now 33 and the mother of six children. When she decided to get her figure in shape with a three to five
By Howard Bloom Two Iranians in their early twenties have just been sentenced to a longer period of time in jail than a murderer. What in the world could they have done to deserve this punishment? Social networking. On October 26th, the two Iranians, Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancée, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, posted a video of
Today Gallup, one of the most respected polling organizations in America, issued the result of a survey it did from November 9 to December 2. The first line of the report was disturbing. Says Gallup, “Americans’ self-reports of mental health are their worst in over” 20 years. Gallup explains that, “We’ve hit a record low
Early in the morning of November 7th, Vladimir Putin chaired an online meeting of his Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and made some disturbing statements about nuclear weapons. But before we get into Putin’s latest nuclear end-of-the-world scenario, it’s important to understand what Putin’s Council for the Development of Civil
At 1:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time on September 7th, at Vandenberg Space Force Base, 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, California, the US Air Force Global Strike Command launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile stripped of its nuclear warhead. The Space Force says that the point of the test is to prove that “the
We are told every day that we have raped the planet and are running out of resources. For example, July 28th was publicized around the world as Earth Overshoot Day. The day’s promoter, the Global Footprint Network. explains on its webpage (https://www.overshootday.org/) that “Earth Overshoot Day, marks the date when humanity has used all the biological
On July 20th, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, told the Russian news outlets Tass, RIA Novotni, and Sputnik that Russia wants to take the war in the Ukraine much farther than the territories that Russia now controls in the Donbas and Luhansk regions. Russia wants to move south, west, and north to the regions of Zaporozhye,
Attention is the oxygen of the human soul. A few of us who cannot gain attention by doing good will seek it by doing evil. At 11:30 am on Tuesday, May 24th, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, who did not have a driver’s license, crashed his grandparents’ four-door silver Ford truck at high speed into a ditch near