... 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…
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Sunday Paper - Voting Machines, Smartphones and digital distraction
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…
Read Full PostSunday Paper - School Start Times, Interchangeable Lens Cameras, Open Sourced
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.…
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