Out of a growing concern for skyrocketing levels of mental health issues,violence, behavior and learning disorders in American children, an activist group, Moms Across America, commissioned testing on 21 of the country’s most popular fast food brands. All 21 were tested for the most widely used herbicide in the world, glyphosate, 230 agrochemicals, 160 heavy …
Football’s violence and its impact on the brain get most of the attention these days. Even if little is done to control the impacts, there are stories detailing the interrupted, or destroyed, lives of players resulting from near head on collisions every game. Yet, every summer, like clockwork, several American boys die on football fields …
The one thing we all have in common is that we have to manage money throughout our lifetimes. And yet there is so little financial literacy taught in our schools. There are certain sound principles that you will read and hear time and again. In his new book, J. Ted Oakley, the founder of …
Disruption is the name of the game in so many corners of our economy including music, video entertainment, and other communications sectors, and our guest argues in this podcast that higher education is not, and cannot, be immune from it. It is too expensive, too exclusionary and a key reason for yawning gaps in income …
I remember a popular song back in the day whose title was “If Loving You is Wrong I Don’t Want to Be Right” and while that was about love, how is it that we in this society almost 50 years later have transferred that concept to our politics? Are we really that isolated and disconnected …
Given the impacts of climate change, aging demographics, and a growing middle class around the globe, the world finds itself at a crossroads. Superpowers, like United States, will have to demonstrate their ability to change and adapt in the coming period in order to maintain their status. As far as America goes, the process is …
You may have thought that getting your child through those tough teenage years meant the end of your full immersion parenting, but after listening to this podcast, you may want to think again. In fact, with new brain research and a host of changes in our economy and society, your child may need you more …
Our guest likes to compare and contrast this moment in history with the Gilded Age of the Industrial Revolution, when robber barons pillaged the economic landscape with impunity. At some point when the spoils all went to the top, when labor was exploited and the excesses became too apparent to all, the government stopped being …
I don’t know how many trips you take in a year, but it’s difficult for me to imagine having the time, energy or resources to travel to EVERY country in the world, even over a half century of excursions. Our guest has done just that. Boris Kester, author of “The Long Road to Cullaville:Stories From …
It’s hard to have a conversation with a friend or colleague where the issue of sleep doesn’t come up. In most cases, you’ll hear people say there’s is not restful and they are trying a range of things, from a new mattress to meditation or white noise to address it. Some may describe a …