My Sunday Reading list is back.…
Browsing Tag
Sunday Paper
General
Sunday Paper - Manhattan’s Skyscrapers Are Empty, “Diary”, “Ok Boomer” is an ignorant meme
Posted on 19th January 2020
... the typical new American single-family home has become surprisingly luxurious, if not quite so swank as Manhattan’s glassy spires. Newly built houses in the U.S. are among the largest in the world, and their size-per-resident has nearly doubled in the past 50 years. And the bathrooms have multiplied. In the early ’70s, 40 percent of new single-family houses had 1.5 bathrooms or fewer; today, just 4 percent do. The mansions of the ’70s would be the typical new homes…
General
Sunday Paper - Voting Machines, Smartphones and digital distraction
Posted on 5th January 2020
News summary by Rebecca Mercuri, PhD. Ben Brooks on the nature of the advice on how to keep yourself from being distracted. …There seems to be this idea that tech itself is addicting and that many are handcuffed to tech by way of their phone. And so often the advice, like that advice above, is along the lines of eschewing tech during some part of your life. It’s bad advice, it’s avoiding the hard questions and finding a scapegoat. ……
With the support of the medical community, a panel of New Jersey State Senators voted to eliminate religion as an acceptable reason for New Jersey children to avoid vaccines required for school attendance. The vote was split along party lines. I find it interesting that Republican senators object to this bill. State Sen. Gerald Cardinale, R-Bergen argued: "It’s their own right to follow their conscience.” Does she think the same about abortion?…
General
Sunday Paper - School Start Times, Interchangeable Lens Cameras, Open Sourced
Posted on 15th December 2019
Mercer Me: The Hopewell Valley Regional School District (HVRSD) considers later school start times for middle and high school students given that current early start times were chosen to solve transportation issues and may cause mental health issues and stress in children. I expect that Montgomery Township and West Windsor Township may do the same. Princeton Township already has. Washington Post: We are ensuring a technological period where what's real and what's fake can't easily be determined. Is that your…
