Anxiety Among the Young

With the availability of closed-caption, why are there signers at speeches and televised public announcements?

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Has DeSantis' disaster trumped Shapiro's?

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Nearly one-third of all greenhouse gases have been released since Al Gore won his 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for a climate movie. These emissions have an estimated half-life in the atmosphere of 120 years. Your electric car isn’t going to change that.--WSJ

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Anxiety Among the Young

There is a book coming out about the rise of anxiety among children. The division is surprising; there is a huge inflection point for those children born after 1994. The thesis points to the shift from outside play--with risk--to the smartphone. Around 2010-2012 there is a seismic shift in teen anxiety.

It seems to be more than just the rise of the impersonal. There is a stunning shift in risk-taking. It used to be that young boys had trackable high-risk behavior with discernably higher ER visits and death rates. That is changing. Male risk-taking is down. And, amazingly, girl risk-taking is way up.

This book will suggest eliminating phones in school. (Amazingly, phones are allowed in classrooms.) This kind of thesis is hard to prove; the information is very soft. But the suggestion of the change--regardless of the causes--looks pretty hard.