Eczema’s link to asthma uncovered
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Eczema’s link to asthma uncovered This may be meaningful to many people in the LD world who have allergies and other autoimmune problems.
Archive for May, 2009
The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 9th, 2009 6 Comments »
Brain Gain Margaret Talbot at The New Yorker has an incredible piece on the use of drugs like Adderall and Ritalin to give “regular” non-ADHD students a competitive edge by allowing them to concentrate. New psychiatric drugs have a way of creating markets for themselves. Disorders often become widely diagnosed after drugs come along that [...]
Stop worrying about your children!
Posted in Social Issues and Ideas on May 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
Stop worrying about your children! Kids today are just as safe as they were in the ’70s, says “Free-Range Kids” author Lenore Skenazy, and what’s really distressing is an alarmist culture that refuses to let them grow up. Tell that to “helicopter parents.”