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Escaping the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others
12/29/2021
If and how it is possible to escape the algorithm based social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and others, harmful for girls and the young, and to mental health, diversity, and education that leads to upward mobility, is the subject of a WSJ series in 2021.
Grouped Articles
The TikTok Spiral, Part 1: Descent - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/27/2021
The TikTok Spiral, Part 3: Escape the Algorithm - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 12/29/2021
‘The Corpse Bride Diet’: How TikTok Inundates Teens With Eating-Disorder Videos
WSJ 12/17/2021
Teens Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok May Be A Factor. - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 11/08/2021
Facebook Faces Official Questions in India Over Policing of Hate Speech
WSJ 10/28/2021
Facebook Whistleblower’s Testimony Builds Momentum for Tougher Tech Laws
WSJ 10/05/2021
Children and mental health during the coronavirus pandemic- search for solutions
10/09/2021
Grouped Articles
One in six children aged 5-16 in England 'likely to have a mental disorder'
The Guardian 10/22/2020
Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine
The Guardian 10/08/2021
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
NYTimes.com 10/26/2021
Foundational learning took a hit amid Covid, only 19% schools have access to internet: UNESCO report
The Indian Express 10/05/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Web giants ‘fuel child mental health crisis’
06/14/2018
Mann Ki Baat - Conversations for a New India
10/05/2021
Radio program for a New India
Grouped Articles
Cleanliness is a tribute to Gandhi: Text of PM's speech on 81st Mann Ki Baat
Hindustan Times 10/05/2021
mint 09/26/2021
Mann Ki Baat| No one should be left out of ‘circle of safety’ of vaccination: PM Modi
The Hindu 09/26/2021
PM Modi talks Olympics, pays tribute to Milkha Singh on Mann ki Baat
The Economic Times 06/27/2021
PM Modi on ‘Mann ki Baat’: Apologise for harsh steps, but they were needed
The Indian Express 03/29/2020
Xi Jinping's vision for China
09/21/2021
Much lower incomes for the 40% of Chinese who live in rural areas, and the worsening inequality during the pandemic with workers losing jobs or on low pay, with China lacking a system of unemployment insurance like the US and EU countries, have created a new urgency for president Xi to tackle these problems. Glaring inequality with IPO's creating new millionaires or billionaires are frowned upon and president Xi personally axed the Ant IPO. After a crackdown on corruption involving about 1 million people, Xi has shifted investment to rural areas to improve conditions of living. State run enterprises are seen as more reliable in achieving Xi's vision of less inequality after the excesses of unregulated capitalist development since 1990.
Grouped Articles
Xi Jinping Aims to Rein In Chinese Capitalism, Hew to Mao’s Socialist Vision
WSJ 09/20/2021
China Blocked Jack Ma’s Ant IPO After Investigation Revealed Likely Beneficiaries
WSJ 03/20/2021
China’s President Xi Jinping Personally Scuttled Jack Ma’s Ant IPO
WSJ 03/20/2021
China’s Xi Ramps Up Control of Private Sector. ‘We Have No Choice but to Follow the Party.’
WSJ 12/10/2020
China Urges New Era of Mass Migration—Back to the Countryside
WSJ 11/17/2020
China Beat Back Covid-19, but It’s Come at a Cost—Growing Inequality
WSJ 10/21/2020
How lifting of a ban on research manipulation of a virus in 2018 by NIH (US) and HHS is related to the transmissibility of coronavirus and the pandemic
06/04/2021
Research on increasing the pathogenic power of the virus by engineering part of its genome is seen as a possible cause of the pandemic in these articles in WSJ and other media sources, based on new memos released under the Freedom if Information Act. These memos by virologists to Dr.Fauci at NIH in the US gave their analysis after their first look at the virus genome for coronavirus. The lifting of the ban on such research by US Health ministry and the NIH agency in 2018 led to labs in overseas locations being funded with US funds to conduct such research.
Grouped Articles
Opinion | Anthony Fauci and the Wuhan Lab
WSJ 06/03/2021
Ban on gain-of-function studies ends
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/2021
U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins
NYTimes.com 05/28/2021
Did Covid come from a Wuhan lab? What we know so far
The Guardian 05/27/2021
Call for a Full and Unrestricted International Forensic Investigation
Group of 26 Scientists from Australia, France, Britain and the US 03/04/2021
WSJ 03/30/2021
Mental health crisis during the pandemic- UK, France and Japan
05/05/2021
Grouped Articles
Covid-19: French mental health ‘deteriorating’ amid lockdown, minister says
France 24 11/23/2020
Japan: 'Minister of loneliness' tackles mental health crisis | DW | 23.04.2021
DW.COM 04/25/2021
The mental health effects of Covid will last for a decade
The Times 01/14/2021
Right to disconnect is vital for future health of home workers
04/23/2021
Second wave is bringing a mental health crisis
The Times 10/21/2020
Global corporate minimum tax rate to pay for new infrastructure
04/07/2021
Grouped Articles
Biden Softens Tax Plan Aimed at Profitable Companies That Pay Little
WSJ 04/07/2021
G-20 to Seek Agreement on Global Minimum Tax Rate by Mid-2021
WSJ 04/07/2021
Treasury’s Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
WSJ 04/05/2021
Yellen Pushes for Global Minimum Tax Rate on Companies: Live Updates
NYTimes.com 04/05/2021
Biden Infrastructure Plan Aims to Boost Economy’s Productivity Over Time
WSJ 04/01/2021
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/2021
Biden $1.9 trillion aid and US economic rebound by 2022
03/11/2021
The Biden aid package for $1.9 trillion, with over 50% going to ordinary Americans hit hardest by the coronavirus, leads to new optimism about an American economic rebound. The package cleared the US Congress on March 10, 2021. By the end of 2022 the OECD forecast is for a US economy that is larger than forecast before the pandemic.
Grouped Articles
New Stimulus Package Brings Big Benefits to the Middle Class
NYTimes.com 03/11/2021
With Relief Plan, Biden Takes on a New Role: Crusader for the Poor
NYTimes.com 03/11/2021
Triumphant Joe Biden secures $1.9trn bailout rescue deal
The Times 03/11/2021
Unexpected U.S. Growth Surge Could Unbalance Fragile Global Economy
WSJ 03/09/2021
China’s Rise Drives a U.S. Experiment in Industrial Policy
WSJ 03/10/2021
America’s Battery-Powered Car Hopes Ride on Lithium. One Producer Paves the Way.
WSJ 03/09/2021
Anti vaccine sentiment around the world
01/21/2021
Grouped Articles
Coronavirus: Anti-vaxxers pose major public health threat in Pakistan | DW | 19.01.2021
DW.COM 01/19/2021
France, Once a Vaccine Pioneer, Is Top Skeptic in Covid-19 Pandemic
WSJ 01/18/2021
Army spies to take on antivax militants
11/29/2020
Anthony Fauci: 'Anti-science, anti-vaccination feeling' could thwart Covid effort – video
The Guardian 06/30/2020
GCHQ in cyberwar on anti-vaccine propaganda
The Times 11/09/2020
How to cultivate new habits during coronavirus- take the tiny steps
12/01/2020
Grouped Articles
On the Journey to New Habits, Take Tiny Steps
WSJ 01/02/2020
Pope Francis and the call "not to return to the false securities of the political and economic systems we had before the pandemic."
11/27/2020
Two crises back to back in 2010 and 2020 which set back the working class, the middle class and the poor, and the neglect of capital allocation to healthcare, education, infrastructure. Pope Francis calls for a culture that feels others pain, that "gives access to all to the fruits of creation, to the basic needs of life: to land, lodging, and labor." See "Misallocation of Capital" in Top Stories for more coverage.
Grouped Articles
India's experience tackling coronavirus- lockdown success and the huge wave of cases after reopening
09/10/2020
Grouped Articles
India Covid Map and Case Count
NYTimes.com 09/10/2020
Record Covid-19 Numbers and Economic Downturn Throw India Into Crisis
WSJ 09/10/2020
Coronavirus updates: India overtakes Brazil to record 4.2m infections - BBC News
BBC News 09/07/2020
India Covid-19 numbers explained, September 1: Pune is now ground zero
The Indian Express 09/01/2020
Coronavirus: India surpasses US for highest single-day rise in Covid-19 cases
BBC News 08/31/2020
Covid-19 Hits India’s Already Faltering Consumers Hardest
WSJ 08/20/2020
California coronavirus
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
California ‘never should have re-opened’ as Covid-19 cases surge to record high
France 24 07/17/2020
How Success Against the Coronavirus Turned to Crisis in California
WSJ 07/01/2020
Olaf Scholz and the task of Renewal of Germany+European Union
12/09/2021
Grouped Articles
Chancellor Olaf Scholz? Change Without Disruption
Institut Montaigne 12/08/21
Who is Olaf Scholz, the new German chancellor?
The Times 12/08/21
Germany's Olaf Scholz pushes for stronger EU, issues warning to Russia | DW | 07.12.2021
DW.COM 12/07/21
Germany’s Scholz Takes Power After Merkel’s 16-Year Rule
WSJ 12/08/21
Nature walks, nature settings, as an essential way to boost mental health and wellbeing during the pandemic
10/09/2021
It is proven that just two hours a week of walks in nature setting in parks, natural settings, green areas, or forested areas, can be hugely beneficial for health and wellbeing during the pandemic. Long and recurrent lockdowns or partial lockdowns, closure of schools, loss of work and income, have had devastating effects on mental health in many countries. Much needs to be done to promote nature walks and bringing nature as a healing mechanism to take some of the burden off the overburdened health services of many countries. Awareness of this in the UK and funds + projects to do this can be a model for other countries.
Grouped Articles
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
The Guardian 06/13/19
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
NYTimes.com 10/04/21
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
The Guardian 09/30/21
Natural health service: wildlife volunteers get mental health boost
The Guardian 10/02/17
Nature on prescription: wetlands project aims to boost mental health
The Guardian 05/13/21
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/21
Wall Street Journal Facebook Investigation and the Outrage Algorithm, Instagram's toxic nature for teen girls
09/21/2021
An algorithm that exaggerates the outrage online creating an angrier place on the internet is one of the findings of the WSJ Facebook Investigation. It shows broken policies, broken tech and broken management. The effects on women are equally insidious and dangerous for mental health.
Grouped Articles
The Facebook Files, Part 4: The Outrage Algorithm - The Journal. - WSJ Podcasts
WSJ 09/20/21
WSJ 09/15/21
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/21
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/19
WSJ 09/16/21
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/21
Kick the sugar habit
07/17/2021
Healthy living means no more than 6% of daily calories of 2000 calories a day should come from sugar intake. During the coronavirus pandemic poor health habits mean pouring gasoline on fire. It is morally indefensible and a sign of a backward country that the the health guideline is set at 10% in the US. The mean consumption of sugar today in the US is 13%. In teaspoons about 6-8 teaspoons of added sugar is the healthy limit, at 16 calories per teaspoon this is 96 calories to 120 calories from added sugar. In grams this is 24 grams at 4 grams per teaspoon of sugar. It is critical to make it a habit to look at packaged foods labels and make intelligent choices. And to simply cut the sugar we add in tea, coffee or drinks by a third or a fourth. Good habits = good health. It is also critical to start this with public education in schools from K1 to high school.
Grouped Articles
Boris Johnson must help us kick our sugar habit
The Times 07/17/21
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/21
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/20
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/19
Covid Travel Pass
05/21/2021
Grouped Articles
EU reaches deal on approving COVID 'travel pass' | DW | 20.05.2021
DW.COM 05/20/21
Covid-19: EU to reopen borders to travellers who are fully vaccinated
France 24 05/20/21
Covid passports: a freedom certificate that may get the world travelling again
The Times 01/17/21
Covid-19 Vaccination Cards Are the Only Proof of Shots, Soon an Essential
WSJ 03/30/21
Biden's Families Plan to help women, workers and students
05/05/2021
The unfinished tasks from the New Deal of FDR are taken up in Biden's first year in 2021, around the first 100 days. Help for struggling families, women, workers and students is at the heart of the $1.8 trillion Families Plan.
Grouped Articles
Biden’s Speech to Congress: Full Transcript
NYTimes.com 04/30/21
Opinion | A New Deal, This Time for Everyone
NYTimes.com 05/04/21
Video: President Biden’s Joint Session Address
NYTimes.com 04/30/21
Biden Makes His Pitch to Congress
NYTimes.com 04/30/21
The Biden Plan for Free Community College Has a Big Challenge
NYTimes.com 04/28/21
Biden Details $1.8 Trillion Plan for Workers, Students and Families
NYTimes.com 04/28/21
Biden's multi-trillion infrastructure spending plans for renewal of America
03/30/2021
US president Biden is pushing ahead with infrastructure spending on a big scale. He no longer seeks support from Republicans as he does not want to see the plans shrink. He is able to do this because the American people now have new perceptions about the role of government. They see it as indispensable in trade, global supply chains, protecting American technology, and in keeping America ahead with the latest infrastructure, skills development with education, healthcare that keeps Americans healthy.
Grouped Articles
Live Updates: Learning From the Past, Biden Aims for Big Spending Early in His Term
NYTimes.com 03/30/21
Biden to Outline Proposal for Infrastructure Spending, Tax Increases
WSJ 03/30/21
Behind Biden’s Big Plans: Belief That Government Can Drive Growth
WSJ 03/30/21
One-term leader Joe Biden in a hurry
The Times 04/01/21
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/21
Europe competing for scarce vaccine supplies in February 2021
02/01/2021
Grouped Articles
Covid vaccine roll-out grinds to halt as shortages hit EU
The Times 01/30/21
Michel Barnier tells EU to step back from Covid vaccine war
The Times 01/30/21
E.U. and U.K. Fighting Over Scarce Vaccines
NYTimes.com 01/27/21
Renewal America- America's National Parks
12/04/2020
Grouped Articles
This Land is Your Land – about this series
The Guardian 12/04/20
Breaking out of anxiety during coronavirus- walks, exercise and nature
12/01/2020
Grouped Articles
Is it worth hiking? Exercise review
The Guardian 10/12/19
Coronavirus: 8 ways to connect with nature during lockdown | DW | 24.04.2020
DW.COM 04/24/20
Always Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop? Here’s How to Quit Worrying
NYTimes.com 08/22/19
Europe in the second wave of the coronavirus and lockdowns in France, Germany and Britain
11/02/2020
Grouped Articles
Lockdown 2? The PM’s friends in the north have lived it for months
The Times 11/01/20
New lockdown: ‘Boris Johnson had no option. He could not ignore the facts any longer’
The Times 11/01/20
French buy up toilet paper and pasta ahead of second lockdown
France 24 10/31/20
As French hunker down for second Covid-19 lockdown, the new rules explained
France 24 10/31/20
Covid-19 Live Updates: European Hospitals Are Filling at an Alarming Pace
NYTimes.com 10/29/20
Coronavirus: France announces second lockdown | DW | 28.10.2020
DW.COM 10/28/20
Shift of American manufacturing overseas and the disastrous results for jobs, pandemic
08/27/2020
Grouped Articles
How China Built ‘iPhone City’ With Billions in Perks for Apple’s Partner
The New York Times 12/29/16
California Nears Deal to Adopt a $15 State Minimum Wage
New York Times 03/27/16
Opinion | Bringing the Factories Home
WSJ 07/19/20
Donald Trump Presides Over GOP Remade in His Image
WSJ 08/26/20
China’s Faux Comparative Advantage
WSJ 04/15/18
Opinion | Corporate America Is Suppressing Wages for Many Workers
The New York Times 02/28/18
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