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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
Olaf Scholz and the task of Renewal of Germany+European Union
12/09/2021
Grouped Articles
Chancellor Olaf Scholz? Change Without Disruption
Institut Montaigne 12/08/2021
Who is Olaf Scholz, the new German chancellor?
The Times 12/08/2021
Germany's Olaf Scholz pushes for stronger EU, issues warning to Russia | DW | 07.12.2021
DW.COM 12/07/2021
Germany’s Scholz Takes Power After Merkel’s 16-Year Rule
WSJ 12/08/2021
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
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 06/13/2019
Oyster Shoreline at ‘Greater New York’ Has a Pearl of a Message
NYTimes.com 10/04/2021
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
The Guardian 09/30/2021
Natural health service: wildlife volunteers get mental health boost
The Guardian 10/02/2017
Nature on prescription: wetlands project aims to boost mental health
The Guardian 05/13/2021
‘These salt marshes saved my life’: how nature is helping mental health
The Guardian 10/09/2021
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
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 09/20/2021
WSJ 09/15/2021
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/2021
Why Free Is Too High a Price for Facebook and Google
WSJ 06/08/2019
WSJ 09/16/2021
Biden’s Facebook Attack Followed Months of Frustration Inside White House
WSJ 07/18/2021
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
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 07/17/2021
Beware sugar highs: seven healthy ways to get more energy – from stretching to sourdough
The Guardian 04/05/2021
New Limits Urged on Americans’ Sugar Consumption Amid Rising Obesity Concerns
WSJ 10/05/2020
Make 2020 the Year of Less Sugar
NYTimes.com 01/06/2019
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
Covid Travel Pass
05/21/2021
Grouped Articles
EU reaches deal on approving COVID 'travel pass' | DW | 20.05.2021
DW.COM 05/20/2021
Covid-19: EU to reopen borders to travellers who are fully vaccinated
France 24 05/20/2021
Covid passports: a freedom certificate that may get the world travelling again
The Times 01/17/2021
Covid-19 Vaccination Cards Are the Only Proof of Shots, Soon an Essential
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'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 03/30/2021
Biden to Outline Proposal for Infrastructure Spending, Tax Increases
WSJ 03/30/2021
Behind Biden’s Big Plans: Belief That Government Can Drive Growth
WSJ 03/30/2021
One-term leader Joe Biden in a hurry
The Times 04/01/2021
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/2021
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
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 10/22/20
Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine
The Guardian 10/08/21
How Other Nations Pay for Child Care. The U.S. Is an Outlier.
NYTimes.com 10/26/21
Foundational learning took a hit amid Covid, only 19% schools have access to internet: UNESCO report
The Indian Express 10/05/21
Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show
WSJ 09/14/21
Web giants ‘fuel child mental health crisis’
06/14/18
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
Serious rethink of existing global supply chains
10/05/2021
Redesign of global supply chains is underway.
Grouped Articles
Supply chain crisis causes rethink at multinationals
10/03/21
‘A perfect storm’: supply chain crisis could blow world economy off course
The Guardian 10/02/21
East Asia’s Economies Face Slowing Growth and Rising Inequality, World Bank Warns
WSJ 09/28/21
The World Relies on One Chip Maker in Taiwan, Leaving Everyone Vulnerable
WSJ 06/19/21
For Clean Energy, Buy American or Buy It Quick and Cheap?
NYTimes.com 05/11/21
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 10/05/21
mint 09/26/21
Mann Ki Baat| No one should be left out of ‘circle of safety’ of vaccination: PM Modi
The Hindu 09/26/21
PM Modi talks Olympics, pays tribute to Milkha Singh on Mann ki Baat
The Economic Times 06/27/21
PM Modi on ‘Mann ki Baat’: Apologise for harsh steps, but they were needed
The Indian Express 03/29/20
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
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
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 06/03/21
Ban on gain-of-function studies ends
The Lancet Infectious Diseases 06/04/21
U.S. Is Said to Have Unexamined Intelligence to Pore Over on Virus Origins
NYTimes.com 05/28/21
Did Covid come from a Wuhan lab? What we know so far
The Guardian 05/27/21
Call for a Full and Unrestricted International Forensic Investigation
Group of 26 Scientists from Australia, France, Britain and the US 03/04/21
WSJ 03/30/21
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
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 11/23/20
Japan: 'Minister of loneliness' tackles mental health crisis | DW | 23.04.2021
DW.COM 04/25/21
The mental health effects of Covid will last for a decade
The Times 01/14/21
Right to disconnect is vital for future health of home workers
04/23/21
Second wave is bringing a mental health crisis
The Times 10/21/20
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 04/07/21
G-20 to Seek Agreement on Global Minimum Tax Rate by Mid-2021
WSJ 04/07/21
Treasury’s Yellen Calls for Global Minimum Corporate Tax Rate
WSJ 04/05/21
Yellen Pushes for Global Minimum Tax Rate on Companies: Live Updates
NYTimes.com 04/05/21
Biden Infrastructure Plan Aims to Boost Economy’s Productivity Over Time
WSJ 04/01/21
Joe Biden mimics Franklin Roosevelt with $2trn Covid recovery plan
The Times 04/01/21
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