Introduction of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone linked to improved lung growth in children

Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone

Children's lung capacity caught up with their peers in less polluted areas once a clean air zone came in, a study shows.

The Mysterious Vaping Illness That’s ‘Becoming an Epidemic’ (Published 2019)

A surge of severe lung ailments has baffled doctors and public health experts.

How one hour of slow breathing changed my life

An introductory breathing class fixed my sleep and left me calmer than ever. It took me years to find out why

‘We need to reclaim childhood’: UK ministers urged to restore right to play

A steady erosion of outdoor playtime is impairing the development of infants, say experts

The Kids Are (Mostly) Alright: New Pew Study Deflates The Social Media Panic

A couple weeks back, Jonathan Haidt published another entry in his ongoing campaign to convince the world that social media is inherently ruining kids’ lives. This one was a victory lap title…

151 Million People Affected: New Study Reveals That Leaded Gas Permanently Damaged American Mental Health

Childhood lead exposure from leaded gasoline has caused widespread mental health issues, particularly in Generation X, highlighting the dangers of delayed environmental regulation.

Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis: Steps Towards a Metacosmics

A scholar led open access publishing collective

Moving Car-Free as a Parent

Observations & reflections on moving around with an infant–photo diaries included.

Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy: a school-based cluster randomised controlled trial in Western Australia

The infant simulator-based VIP programme did not achieve its aim of reducing teenage pregnancy. Girls in the intervention group were more likely to experience a birth or an induced abortion than those in the control group before they reached 20 years of age.

KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents: Polling Insights on the MAHA Movement | KFF

These findings from the KFF/Washington Post Survey of Parents shed light on parents who support the Make America Healthy Again movement, including the issues they see as top concerns for their children's wellbeing and their attitudes when it comes to vaccines and government regulations on food.

Suburbanasia

The environment younger Millennials and older Gen-Z grew up in withered away their ability to mitigate stress and handle disagreements. Is there any way to fix it?

Rutger Bregman on Twitter / X

Devastating review of the degrowth literature (561 studies): --> 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...' --> [those that do] 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases' -->'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis' pic.twitter.com/1OQuUhzfk5— Rutger Bregman (@rcbregman) September 4, 2024

Four Months Later, My Head Is Quiet - Ewan’s Blog

I didn’t realise how much of my baseline was illness until parts of it disappeared.

Do newborn boys really tend to prefer a ‘mechanical object’ to a human face? Failure to assess the confounding effect of an exceptionally high caesarean section rate

We review a twenty year old paper on sex differences in human neonatal social perception, and identify a serious issue: a failure to assess whether the results were distorted by an exceptionally high Caesarean Section rate. This is in addition to a number of other methodological weaknesses, which together mean that there is too much ‘noise’ in the data to draw clear conclusions from the results. The paper’s stark conclusion to have ‘demonstrated’ biological sex differences is unsubstantiated and misleading, and it should no longer be considered a reliable reference point.

Vampire Capital

The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether.