We have many decades of theory and research in child development that tell us so much about how young children learn. We know that, like children all over the world and throughout time, children need to play.

March 23, 2010: President Obama signs the Affordable Care Act into law. “We did not fear our future, we shaped it,” he says.

March 2010:

After all, rationally considered, how can you love and hate somebody at the same time?

Being glum can be advantageous and has been shown to sharpen our eye for detail, for instance. But, overall, the brain seems geared towards maintaining a mildly positive frame of mind. Being in a good mood makes us more likely to seek new experiences, be creative, plan ahead, procreate and adapt to changing conditions.

Many regions fundamental to mood are buried deep in the most primordial parts of the brain; that is, they are thought to have been among the first to develop in the human species. This is probably because mood is evolutionarily important.

the effects of music on study habits are dependent on the student and their style of learning. If easily distracted, students should most likely avoid music so they can keep their focus on their work.

'Mozart effect', a term coined from a study that suggested listening to music could actually enhance intelligence

you get the most brain activity just after, or between, intense musical movements.

music 'lights up' areas of the brain involved with making predictions, paying attention and committing details to memory.

The term referred to Dr. Tomatis' finding that listening to Mozart could temporarily improve performance on certain spatial-temporal reasoning tasks, such as the Stanford-Binet IQ test.

Students should try the combination of studying and music to see if it works for them.

can quickly turn the combination of music and studying into an unproductive idea.

keeps a student awake.

Ultimately, every student should figure out his or her own answer to the question

music is very likely better than Facebook and Twitter, and in a world where multitasking has become extremely common because everything is on one device, some students find music helps keep them focused while studying.

Music has a profound impact on our state of being, altering everything from mood to heart rate.

The brain regions on their list process conflict, pain, social isolation, memory, reward, attention, body sensations, decision making and emotional displays, all of which can contribute to feeling sad. Sadness triggers also vary—for example, the memory of a personal loss; a friend stressing over a work conflict; seeing a desolate film.

In 22 studies, brain scans were performed on nondepressed but sad volunteers. Sadness was mostly induced (subjects were shown sad pictures or films, asked to remember a sad event), although, in a couple of studies, subjects had recently experienced a loss. In the aggregate, sadness appeared to cause altered activity in more than 70 different brain regions.

After getting a glimpse of joy, why do some people immediately shift back to what doesn't work?

For some, happiness is fleeting and depends on their present circumstances, whereas others seem to be generally happy or generally unhappy no matter what is happening in their lives.

A basic assumption of human behavior is that people pursue pleasure and seek to avoid pain. Then why is it that some people seem content to wallow in their misery, even boasting about it as some sort of badge of honor?

Gladys's family had a history of mental instability

"In most fields of research there's so much more research on men than on women, but this is one of the rare situations in which there's a lot more research on moms than on dads,"

adds numerous preventive benefits to medicare with no cost-sharing

The ACA requires all plans to offer some coverage for mental health and substance abuse care, rehabilitative care such as physical therapy, as well as preventive and pediatric services, including pediatric vision and oral health care.[7]

The ACA requires plans to offer coverage for essential services

The ACA has significantly lowered these costs.[1] Almost 83%, or 10.5 million of the 12.7 million people insured through the ACA Marketplace received the law's premium subsidies from November 2015 to February 2016.[2]

Actress Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926

“If the local people do not see a benefit of local conservation, then whatever the laws are, they are going to be ineffective,

States that expanded Medicaid under the ACA experienced a larger increase in coverage of the chronically ill, the investigators found. On average, Medicaid-expansion states increased coverage by 5.6 percentage points, from 82.8% with insurance before the ACA to 88.5% after the law went into effect. But even states that didn't expand Medicaid experienced an increase, rising 4.2 percentage points from 77.0% before to 81.2% after the ACA was enacted.

Millions of Americans with a chronic illness gained health insurance coverage after the Affordable Care Act went into effect in 201

Health care reform works and has already benefited millions of seniors, women, children, and young adults. If at two years the Affordable Care Act is already helping millions of Americans access quality, affordable health care, we have a lot more to look forward to.

Additionally, the Affordable Care Act prohibits insurance companies from spending more than 20 percent of premium dollars on nonmedical expenses such as administrative costs and marketing. If insurers violate the 80/20 standard—also called the Medical Loss Ratio—they must return the money to patients through rebate checks.

For instance, it already eliminated lifetime coverage limits for 105 million Americans, ensuring those who need coverage the most cannot max out their health insurance.

$1.25 billion across the country to promote wellness, prevent disease, and protect against public health emergencies.

The fund, designed to help create the necessary infrastructure to prevent and detect disease and manage chronic conditions, creates additional primary care residency slots and increases the number of nurse practitioners trained, among other things.

departments’ joint efforts halted $4.1 billion in fraudulent claims, which is the largest sum ever recovered in a single year from individuals and companies attempting to defraud seniors and taxpayers.

saving billions for taxpayers.

The initiative aims to reduce preventable hospital-acquired conditions and preventable readmissions by 40 and 20 percent, respectively, by 2013.

The Affordable Care Act’s Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs

The payment models the participating organizations are piloting will allow providers to move away from a volume-based, fee-for-service payment system to one based on the quality of care provided.

provide better, more coordinated care to Medicare patients with potential savings of $1.1 billion.

16 percent lower monthly premiums since 2010.

seniors saved an average of $837 a year—and will save even more in the years ahead. The average Medicare patient will save $4,200 from 2011 to 2021 while those with higher prescription drug costs will save as much as $16,000 over the same period. Since 2010, more than 5 million seniors have saved $3.2 billion.

In the first half of 2012, more than 16 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one preventive service at no cost to them,

Health care reform requires insurance plans to cover important preventive services, including critical immunizations, numerous health screenings, and counseling services, with no cost-sharing by women.

while controlling rapidly rising costs.

This growth has already served nearly 3 million new patients

the Affordable Care Act created the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, which includes coverage for primary and specialty care, hospital services, and prescription drugs.

Meanwhile, many Americans with a pre-existing medical condition—including asthma, heart disease, previous injuries, and cancer—would not have access to necessary, affordable care without health reform.

73 percent of young adults have insurance coverage as a result of the dependent provision, and their families benefit from this economic security, too.

Millions of Americans have benefited from the Affordable Care Act since President Barack Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010.

6.6 million additional young adults, including more than 1.3 million minorities—many of them new college graduates—had access to coverage even if they were unable to find a job right away.

Millions of Americans have benefited from the Affordable Care Act since President Barack Obama signed it into law on March 23, 2010.

young adults to remain on their parents’ insurance until age 26

Today, a whopping 30% of Earth’s landmass goes to meat, dairy, and egg production,

Replacing 75% of beef and lamb with chicken and pork could reduce emissions to five gigatons a year. Better yet, if we replaced the ruminant meat with grains and cereals, emissions could be reduced to three gigatons.

The increase of social media and the Internet, they believe, has reduced face-to-face interactions. This in itself isn’t necessarily bad, except for the fact that these online relationships are easier to ignore whenever it’s convenient.

Being brought up on a steady diet of violent TV and video games, says Konrath, may deaden our feelings for others, probably in the same way our apathetic attitude toward friends carries over from the Internet.

According to a comprehensive study from the University of Michigan, we care about others 40 percent less than people in the 1980s did, with the biggest drop-off in empathy occurring after the year 2000. Reasons for this drop in empathy is anyone’s guess, but the increase in media (both social and mainstream) and violent video games have been trotted out as the likely suspects.

From building a wall along the entirety of the U.S.-Mexico border to tackling reform of the U.S. immigration system to reduce admissions

cutting temporary protections for noncitizens established by prior administrations

Trump’s Arizona speech has proven a remarkably clear roadmap for understanding his priorities since entering the White House.

Music’s effects on study habits will vary from person to person, and can also be affected by what you’re listening to — the genre of the music, how loud it is, etc.

Because music can impact and regulate your mood and the best mood to study in is a more relaxed mood, choosing music that helps you relax but also with enough beat or rhythm to ensure you don’t zone out while studying is crucial. But music that’s too loud or with too much of an upbeat tempo can also be distracting, so having a playlist or specific artist you turn to for studying music can really help.

“Music with lyrics is very likely to have a problematic effect when you’re writing or reading. Probably less of an effect on math, if you’re not using the language parts of your brain,” Nass said. “In my day, there was no way you could take music to the library. When [today's students] go to the library to study, they bring their noise, and music, with them.”

“Can preference for background music mediate the irrelevant sound effect,” explored how music can interfere with short-term memory potential.

music may diminish your cognitive abilities in these situations because when you’re trying to memorize things in order, you can get thrown off and confused by the various words and notes in the song playing in the background

communities that rely on reefs for fish and tourism

“If greenhouse gas emissions are not drastically reduced, most reefs will see annual bleaching by mid-century,”

The previous two global bleaching events on tropical reefs in 1998 and 2010 did not repeat in subsequent years.

Drones kill fewer civilians, as a percentage of total fatalities, than any other military weapon.

Under international humanitarian law, the targeted individual must be directly participating in hostilities with the United States

Article 51 applies if the targeted state agrees to the use of force in its territory, or the targeted group operating within its territory was responsible for an act of aggression against the targeting state where the host state is unwilling or unable to control the threat themselves

Drone strikes are cheaper than engaging in ground or manned aerial combat

Drone strikes target individuals who may not be terrorists or enemy combatants.

Drone strikes make the United States safer by decimating terrorist networks across the world

Particularly, says Fogle, when not putting a suffering animal down: "The most tormenting set of circumstances is when the owner won't allow it.

"As the years go by, it gets more difficult." Experience, he explains, makes vets more confident in their diagnoses – which just leaves more time to consider the plight of both animal and owner. "One of my contemporaries can no longer put animals down," he says. "He can help owners with the decision, but he gets one of his colleagues to administer the injection."

he's seen animals die of everything, and hasn't yet seen one way to go that is "anything like as nice for an animal as being put to sleep".

A 2012 study found that a third of veterinary students had experienced depression, compared to around an eighth in the general population. Vets are also three to four times more likely to take their own lives – significantly more than doctors.

Even PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), which has questioned the morality of using guide dogs, agrees that "euthanasia, performed properly, is often the most compassionate option" to "prevent the suffering of unwanted animals in the most responsible and humane way possible".

probably the last one that anybody considers is the vet

the idea that there's something wrong with you if you need good social ties to be happy is silly--and destructive.

Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.1 Its use is widespread among young people. In 2015, more than 11 million young adults ages 18 to 25 used marijuana in the past year

The women of India often have to endure the worst living conditions. India is ranked as the fourth most dangerous country for a woman to live in, topped only by Afghanistan, DR Congo and Pakistan. Harassments and violence against Indian women occurs both in the public and private sphere. Domestic violence and violence in close relationships are widely spread.

The country also tops the world list of children suffering from malnutrition. They also have the highest number of illiterates. 270 million people don’t know how to read and write; 2/3 of them are women.

Forms and types of sex or gender discrimination

female” tasks and skills are devaluated in the labour market

An increase in the percentage of women in an occupation has a large downward effect on its wage rank

Interestingly, even our interactions with people we do not know that well give us a sense that we are part of that larger community

Strong ties were particularly important. On days when people interacted many times with their strong ties, they reported that they were happier and felt more like they belonged to the community than when they interacted fewer times with their strong ties

So, can weak ties contribute to your happiness?

A Thomson Reuters Foundation expert poll last year ranked India as the world's fourth most dangerous country for a woman, behind only Afghanistan, Congo and Pakistan.

Authorities acknowledge that action is needed and say they are taking steps to try to better protect women

Indian women, in some ways, have also made some strides. Literacy rates have gone up, maternal mortality rates have gone down, and millions of women have joined the workforce.

the animal products industry is the #1 contributor to climate change. Socially, 80-90% of the world's crops go to feeding our livestock- we could easily feed the world's hungry if everyone adopted a vegan diet. What we choose to put into our bodies greatly impacts others and the world around us.  By adopting a vegan diet, you can help save the environment and improve the lives of others (and yourself!)

it will be harder to maintain the sense of exclusivity and authenticity the brand's been so successful at trading on

Every time Supreme releases chunks of new stuff at its ten stores across Europe, America, and Japan—which is every Thursday from the start of each collection—hundreds of people skip school or work to get first dibs.

tired Nick; patient Werner; teenagers from Cardiff, Newcastle, and Canterbury; the guy wearing a Supreme sleeping bag like a Snuggie

Although the vegan diet was defined early on in The Vegan Society's beginnings in 1944, it was as late as 1949 before Leslie J Cross pointed out that the society lacked a definition of veganism. He suggested “[t]he principle of the emancipation of animals from exploitation by man”. This is later clarified as “to seek an end to the use of animals by man for food, commodities, work, hunting, vivisection, and by all other uses involving exploitation of animal life by man”.

Removes athletes competitive nature and passion for the game ― Players will take on a “pro mindset” where the only motive is money. They will lose that hunger and passion that we see in college. It will be traded for lackadaisical plays and half-ass efforts that we sometime see from pros.

“We do have hungry nights that we don’t have enough money to get food in. Sometimes money is needed. I don’t think you should stretch it out to hundreds of thousands of dollars for playing, because a lot of times guys don’t know how to handle themselves with money. I feel like a student athlete. Sometimes, there’s hungry nights where I’m not able to eat, but I still gotta play up to my capabilities.”

Financial irresponsibility ― Amateur players receiving compensation just seems like a complete disaster. They don’t know how to manage their money, and there wouldn’t be anyone their to guide their financial decisions. Colin Cowherd states, “I don’t think paying all college athletes is great; not every college is loaded, and most 19-year-olds (are) gonna spend it—and let’s be honest, they’re gonna spend it on weed and kicks!”

The ability to draw definitive conclusions about marijuana’s long-term impact on the human brain from past studies is often limited by the fact that study participants use multiple substances, and there is often limited data about the participants’ health or mental functioning prior to the study.

These results suggest that marijuana has its strongest long-term impact on young people whose brains are still busy building new connections and maturing in other ways.

frequent use starting in adolescence was associated with a loss of an average of 6 or up to 8 IQ points measured in mid-adulthood

Other studies have not found significant structural differences between the brains of people who do and do not use the drug

Rats exposed to THC before birth, soon after birth, or during adolescence show notable problems with specific learning and memory tasks later in life

Technology has expanded the boundaries of what’s possible with creative pursuits such as movie-making, music and graphic design. This has provided more scope for creativity, possibly even invited more participants to join in.

Technological innovations themselves require creative thought to get them going, otherwise how would we end up with Google, Uber or Air BnB?

Newsweek reported on the findings of a recent study that indicated that while intelligence scores have steadily risen, creativity scores have been declining since 1990

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World back in 1932 where he suggested a future in which humans sated a constant desire for distraction through technology. Thought could be kept at bay because we would simply zap any boredom by distracting ourselves with our technological devices.

When I was a kid, it was TV and computer games that were to bring the downfall of imaginations everywhere.

You can access basically anything you like online. There are templates for everything and even academic information is available all over the internet, resulting in more piracy and allegedly, less creative thought when it comes to academic settings.

Just as Wayne Sutton and Corvida started their interview this afternoon, the chat area was bombarded with a flurry of racial slurs, bigotry, and malicious prejudice. I’ve been through this before in many past years of chat rooms, discussions boards, and such.  Unfortunately, each time, I think it just desensitizes you a little bit.  One positive: everyone else now has the opportunity to see that racism isn’t a myth; it isn’t just something that ended with slavery; and the neither the blogosphere nor the web are exceptions.

The findings, presented Friday (Nov. 9) here at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting, may partly explain why one twin gets cancer while another stays healthy. The study also suggests that these genetic changes are surprisingly common.

The index of any illicit drug use tends to be driven by marijuana, which is by far the most prevalent of the many illicitly used drugs.

Although a number of genes play a role in the development of substance abuse, this is a disease in which other factors more strongly influence its occurrence.

Individuals who begin using drugs as juveniles are at greater risk of becoming addicted compared to those who begin drug use as an adult due to the immaturity of the teenage brain, particularly of that part of the brain that controls impulses.

We are aware of two important air pollution bills in the pipeline for the 2018 legislative session that the UCC supports. HB 101, sponsored by state Sens. Patrice Arent and Curt Bramble, would mandate emission testing on diesel vehicles in all counties that have emission testing programs. A House Bill sponsored by Steve Eliason, titled “Zero Emission Vehicle Program,” would increase consumer access to electric vehicles and ultimately reduce their cost by requiring that a percentage of new vehicles shipped to Utah dealers be zero emission vehicles.

The idea is grandiose yet simple: decarbonise the global economy by extracting global-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) straight from the air, using arrays of giant fans and patented chemical whizzery

“If you think your video was demonetized in error, request an appeal by clicking on the yellow $ icon next to the video in Video Manager.”

YouTube could lose $750 million in revenue this year over advertisers halting business, according to analyst firm Nomura Instinet.

two weeks ago

Defense Department officials have expressed concern that the smoking problem is impacting the U.S. military’s readiness for battle, and the tobacco-related cost from health problems and lost days at work among soldiers and veterans has been estimated to be in the billions.

Roughly 40 percent of cigarettes sold in the U.S. are smoked by people with mental health issues, including depression, anxiety or substance-abuse problems.

“As the number of smokers drops, the industry is finding it harder and harder to find those replacement smokers,” Koval said in an interview. “So the industry is targeting people based on their challenges in life, on who they are. It’s shocking and appalling.”

neurolaw" — in which neuroscience is used as evidence in the courtroom.

He once believed that genes and brain function could determine everything about us. But now he thinks his childhood may have made all the difference.

They believe that brain patterns and genetic makeup are not enough to make anyone a psychopath. You need a third ingredient: abuse or violence in one's childhood.

He looked at 12 genes related to aggression and violence and zeroed in on the MAO-A gene (monoamine oxidase A). This gene, which has been the target of considerable research, is also known as the "warrior gene" because it regulates serotonin in the brain. Serotonin affects your mood — think Prozac — and many scientists believe that if you have a certain version of the warrior gene, your brain won't respond to the calming effects of serotonin.

evidence is accumulating that some people's brains predispose them toward violence and that psychopathic tendencies may be passed down from one generation to another

The area of the brain that drives your id-type behaviors, which is rage, violence, eating, sex, drinking.

brain injury or was born that way

orbital cortex puts a brake on another part of the brain called the amygdala, which is involved with aggression and appetites.

People with low activity [in the orbital cortex] are either free-wheeling types or sociopaths

This is the orbital cortex, the area that Fallon and other scientists believe is involved with ethical behavior, moral decision-making and impulse control.

There are patches of yellow and red.

precisely what to look for.

"There's a whole lineage of very violent people — killers," he says

He studies the biological basis for behavior, and one of his specialties is to try to figure out how a killer's brain differs from yours and mine.

nature vs. nurture

"That twins were often dressed the same and treated exactly the same, she felt, interfered with their independent psychological development," Perlman says.

Wright says that no such study will ever be done again — nor should it. But he acknowledges that it would be very interesting to learn what this study has to teach us.

Many began by hiring their first lobbyists. And they started winning. They killed a major labor law reform, rolled back regulation, lowered their taxes, and helped to move public opinion in favor of less government intervention in the economy.

rather than trying to keep government out of its business (as they did for a long time), companies are now increasingly bringing government in as a partner

Things are quite different today. The evolution of business lobbying from a sparse reactive force into a ubiquitous and increasingly proactive one is among the most important transformations in American politics over the last 40 years

One has to go back to the Gilded Age to find business in such a dominant political position in American politics

society often forces women to think more about family and children than men

Many still believe the idea that only women should handle children and obstetrics.

success of their careers and level of leadership roles they play in clinical settings.

trouble even entering the field

from hunger, thirst and malnutrition;•from pain, injury and dise ase ;•from discomfort ;•from fe ar and dist re ss;•to express natural behaviour.

Unfortunately, all medicines have been tested on other animals due to regulatory requirements, and it may be hard to avoid them at times or to find alternatives for some medical treatments.

doing away with all products derived wholly or partly from other animals.

Veganism represents a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, other animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, other animals and the environment.

Her surprising conclusion is that the success of social movements has more to do with their political tactics than with the ideas associated with their ideologies.

Social scientists have argued that technology, human capital and community are essential ingredients for economic and social prosperity. But it now appears that we have another set of useful ingredients with which to work. It will be informative to examine how the Big Five are distributed in other countries and whether the processes connecting traits and geographic indicators are similar.

A third explanation is environmental influence.

Another explanation is social influence.

One explanation for the geographic clustering of personality traits is selective migration – the idea that people choose to live in places that meet their needs.

And numerous studies have shown that differences between individuals are associated with important life outcomes, from academic and occupational success, to marital stability and physical health.

Evidence from studies of identical twins suggests that the Big Five have a substantial genetic basis.

These so-called Big Five dimensions – Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Intellect – provided a basic model for conceptualising and measuring personality.

Performing on stage doesn't always mean that you need to be vocal and heard. Conveying a message to the audience and communicating with them without actually talking is something which was worth learning during the course of this workshop.

Participating in theater classes can stimulate student's creativity and thought process.

you can always achieve whatever you want if your are determined and focused about it.

Does this suggest that Earth is unique? Stanley said that currently, this question is difficult to answer, because telescopes that search for exoplanets have a selection bias toward large, gas giant planets that orbit very close to their parent stars.

In 1961, astronomer Frank Drake wrote an equation to quantify the likelihood of finding a technologically advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe. The so-called Drake equation took into account factors such as the fraction of stars with planets around them and the fraction of those planets that would be hospitable to life.

emporary Visa Classifications

Prospective immigrants under the immediate relatives’ category must meet standard eligibility criteria, and petitioners must meet certain age and financial requirements.2Immediate relatives are

U.S. immigration law is very complex, and there is much confusion as to how it works

1,200 occupied breeeding areas

Annual surveys.

The ultimate success of efforts to restore breeding populations, whether by natural or artificial means, depends largely on survivorship. Providing improved habitat conditions, particularly during the winter period, probably is the most important means of maximizing survivorship.

They could be as concrete as acquiring a job and plotting a growth trajectory in a career; to abstract ideologies like helping those that are in need, or keeping a positive frame of mind.

at least 10 or 15 times as massive as our own sun.

The interesting thing is that according to statistics that rate drug use and even the proneness to get into car accidents, the most reckless sex among teenagers are males.

The problem with this perception is that by holding our daughters to fear based standards, we restrict their ability to be confident, capable and equal human beings.

In 1994, a study performed by Adolescence Magazine confirmed that most parents are more protective of their daughters and permissive of their sons

The tendency to maintain a fearful response is thought to be a result of the fact that we are evolutionarily predisposed to fear snakes, spiders, or other things that might endanger us.

amygdala responds when people exhibit fear learning through instruction

Fear can be learned through direct experience with a threat, but it can also be learned via social means such as verbal warnings or observ-ing others.

“Fear is a universal survival mechanism,”

Phelps, a professor of psychology and neural science at New York University,

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

In the last few years, Americans have started driving a lot less

What Naumov points out, however, is that while AI may not, in fact, replace the human interaction, it could, in fact, go hand in hand to offer a better customer experience when used as the incredible tool it was intended to be.

Naumov knows that AI is here to stay and that what we are seeing is just the beginning.

Ginni Rometty, the CEO of IBM came up with the concept that if you reverse the letters AI to IA, you go from Artificial Intelligence to Intelligent Assistant

"Disorders like phobias, depression and OCD, documented at zoos, don’t appear to have analogues among animals living in the wild."

So much confinement and artifice is bound to drive the animals crazy, Wallace-Wells argues, even if they've never known anything else.

the cushy lives of zoo animals have made them a bit soft. "An animal in the wild can’t afford to be depressed," she says in the Times piece. "It will simply be killed or starve, since its environment requires constant vigilance."