CCF Briefing
- The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need
- America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
- The Military Wants Better Tests for PTSD. Speech Analysis Could Be the Answer.
- More Benches, Special Goggles: Taking Steps to Assist Older Travelers
- Will the Supreme Court Protect Gay and Transgender Workers?
- The Search for a Biomarker for Early Autism Diagnosis
- How Parents Who Travel for Work Can Ease the Burden on Their Families
- Why ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Such Terrible Advice
- Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again
- The Richest Man in China Is Wrong. 12-Hour Days Are No ‘Blessing.’
- Since Columbine, Fears of School Violence Have Grown. Research Shows That Schools Are Safer.
- A Leading Cause for Wrongful Convictions: Experts Overstating Forensic Results
- Commuting While Pregnant: A Long Ride Could Be a Risky One
- To View Online Porn, First Show Your Papers: U.K. Will Begin Age Checks
- 4 Tax Strategies That Could Make a Divorce Settlement Easier
- Books That Expand the Possibilities of Boyhood
- With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
- The Data ‘Bad Moms’ Need
- A New Civil-Rights Movement
- The Rock ‘n Play Recall: Why We Pulled Our Pick Before Fisher-Price Did
- Where Are Adults Living With Their Parents?
- Grieving the Future I Imagined for My Daughter
- Physicians Get Addicted Too
- Why Companies Are Failing at Reskilling
- Driving? The Kids Are So Over It
- States Tempt Recent College Graduates With Student-Loan Payoffs
- Same-sex couples applying for a mortgage face higher rejection and worse rates, study finds
- The real digital divide isn’t about access to the Internet
- Nobody Uses Dental Dams
- The Children of the Children of Columbine
- Twenty Years After Columbine
- The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
- Why Are So Many Teen Athletes Struggling With Depression?
- Raising Boys With a Broader Definition of Masculinity
- School shootings didn’t start in 1999 at Columbine. Here’s why that disaster became a blueprint for
- Bullies and black trench coats: The Columbine shooting’s most dangerous myths
- Twenty Years Later, A Look At Columbine, Then And Now
- The Data All Guilt-Ridden Parents Need
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/opinion/sunday/baby-breastfeeding-sleep-training.html
What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and the other agonizing decisions of parenthood.
- America’s Invisible Pot Addicts
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/americas-invisible-pot-addicts/567886/
More and more Americans are reporting near-constant cannabis use, as legalization forges ahead.
- The Military Wants Better Tests for PTSD. Speech Analysis Could Be the Answer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/magazine/veterans-ptsd-speech-analysis.html
Using computerized voice analysis, a new study found 18 features of speech that identify markers of PTSD in veterans.
- More Benches, Special Goggles: Taking Steps to Assist Older Travelers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/business/elder-travel-airports-hotels.html
The number of people 60 and over is growing. So airports and hotels are beginning to look at design changes to help them.
- Will the Supreme Court Protect Gay and Transgender Workers?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/opinion/supreme-court-lgbt-workers.html
The justices have agreed to decide if federal employment law covers discrimination against L.G.B.T. members of the work force.
- The Search for a Biomarker for Early Autism Diagnosis
Children with autism spectrum disorder took significantly longer to look away from a video when their names were called, a new study found.
- How Parents Who Travel for Work Can Ease the Burden on Their Families
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/well/family/parents-travel-work.html
Seven ways to deal with the challenges of jumping back on the family merry-go-round.
- Why ‘Find Your Passion’ Is Such Terrible Advice
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/smarter-living/why-find-your-passion-is-such-terrible-advice.html
Prepare for a hard truth: We’re pretty bad at most things when we first try them.
- Think You’re Discreet Online? Think Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/opinion/computational-inference.html
Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose.
- The Richest Man in China Is Wrong. 12-Hour Days Are No ‘Blessing.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/21/opinion/jack-ma-996.html
Working nonstop hurts employees as well as the managers who praise the culture of overwork.
- Since Columbine, Fears of School Violence Have Grown. Research Shows That Schools Are Safer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/us/columbine-anniversary-school-violence-statistics.html
The panic of mass shootings has ramped up efforts to secure schools. But anxieties remain high, even as federal data shows that schools are less violent.
- A Leading Cause for Wrongful Convictions: Experts Overstating Forensic Results
These three men spent decades in prison as a result of statistical exaggerations. They were among 150 men and women released from prison after their wrongful convictions were overturned in 2018.
- Commuting While Pregnant: A Long Ride Could Be a Risky One
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/health/pregnancy-maternity-leave-paid.html
Traveling 50 or more miles to and from work may negatively affect unborn babies, a new study suggests.
- To View Online Porn, First Show Your Papers: U.K. Will Begin Age Checks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/world/europe/britain-age-checks-pornography.html
From July, commercial providers of pornography will have to verify their users are over 18, either through identity documents or passes bought face to face.
- 4 Tax Strategies That Could Make a Divorce Settlement Easier
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/your-money/taxes-tips-divorce.html
Divorce negotiations are never easy, and they became more complicated this year, thanks to the tax overhaul. Here are four tips for taxpayers to consider.
- Books That Expand the Possibilities of Boyhood
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/books/review/david-macaulay-nonfiction-boyhood.html
What does it mean to be a boy now? New nonfiction books show the varied thoughts and experiences of boys facing peril — or just figuring out how to be themselves.
- With the Birth of My Son, I Stopped Hiding
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/style/modern-love-no-more-hiding-my-son-or-my-love.html
Fearing judgment of her interracial relationship and mixed-race child, a woman keeps both from her family. Until she doesn’t.
- The Data ‘Bad Moms’ Need
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/opinion/sunday/baby-breastfeeding-sleep-training.html
What science tells us about breast-feeding, sleep training and all the agonizing decisions of parenthood.
- A New Civil-Rights Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/voting-rights-activists.html
It’s about voting, and it is winning more than it is losing.
- The Rock ‘n Play Recall: Why We Pulled Our Pick Before Fisher-Price Did
https://thewirecutter.com/blog/fisher-price-rock-n-play-recall/
- Where Are Adults Living With Their Parents?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/realestate/where-are-adults-living-with-their-parents.html
More adults are living with their parents, but home prices may not be the only thing driving that trend.
- Grieving the Future I Imagined for My Daughter
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/1p36-genetic-disorder-reshaping-my-family/586717/
I now had two children, but was only just beginning to understand what it means to be a parent.
- Physicians Get Addicted Too
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/opioid-epidemic-west-virginia-doctor/586036
Lou Ortenzio was a trusted West Virginia doctor who got his patients—and himself—hooked on opioids. Now he’s trying to rescue his community from an epidemic he helped start.
- Why Companies Are Failing at Reskilling
In a tight labor market, employers from Amazon to JPMorgan are trying to get better at retraining the workers they have. ‘We need a Waze for your career,’ says one labor expert.
- Driving? The Kids Are So Over It
https://www.wsj.com/articles/driving-the-kids-are-so-over-it-11555732810
In a challenge for Detroit, teens put off getting their licenses and buying cars.
- States Tempt Recent College Graduates With Student-Loan Payoffs
Debt-forgiveness legislation picks up speed as states get creative in filling workforce gaps
- Same-sex couples applying for a mortgage face higher rejection and worse rates, study finds
- The real digital divide isn’t about access to the Internet
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/18/real-digital-divide-isnt-about-access-internet/
The amount of time spent online varies widely by class.
- Nobody Uses Dental Dams
So why do they still exist? An Object Lesson.
- The Children of the Children of Columbine
Twenty years after the shooting at Columbine High School, some survivors—now parents themselves—are figuring out how to talk to their kids about lockdown drills.
- Twenty Years After Columbine
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/twenty-years-after-columbine
Physicians speak out about treating the victims of mass shootings.
- The Disciplines Where No Black People Earn Ph.D.s
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/lack-of-black-doctoral-students/587413/
In more than a dozen academic fields—largely STEM related—not a single black student earned a doctoral degree in 2017.
- Why Are So Many Teen Athletes Struggling With Depression?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/teen-athletes-mental-illness/586720
When high-school sports replicate the training methods and intensity seen at the college level, players feel the toll.
- Raising Boys With a Broader Definition of Masculinity
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/how-raise-boys/587107
A psychologist explains how a strong relationship with a parent or teacher can help boys be their true selves, even when those selves don’t fit within narrow cultural norms.
- School shootings didn’t start in 1999 at Columbine. Here’s why that disaster became a blueprint for other killers and created the ‘Columbine generation’
- Bullies and black trench coats: The Columbine shooting’s most dangerous myths
On the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre, it’s time for a fact-check about the two killers
- Twenty Years Later, A Look At Columbine, Then And Now
https://the1a.org/shows/2019-04-18/twenty-years-later-a-look-at-columbine-then-and-now
