Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDAvatarAvatarExclusive behind-the-scenes look inside NYC's iconic Roosevelt Hotel repurposed into migrant processing hubverified_publisherFox News - By Taylor PenleyNew Yorkers have come face-to-face with an unpleasant truth – the migrant crisis has arrived in the Big Apple and even Democratic Mayor Eric Adams is warning, unless something changes, people could soon be "sleeping on the streets." Fashionable Madison Avenue's Roosevelt Hotel, now a haven for …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDAvatarAvatarHeartbreaking reason why the 'world's dirtiest man' didn't bathe with water or soap for over 60 yearsUNILAD - Niamh ShackletonAmou Haji went over six decades without washing with soap and water, but there's thought to be a sad reason why. Amou became well-known in his …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoThis Is the State With the Most Homeless People: Every State Ranked247wallst.com - MellyAn estimated 653,104 people experienced homelessness on a single night in 2023 — a 12% increase (or about 70,650 more people) from 2022 and the …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow the brain responds to reward is linked to socioeconomic backgroundbigthink.com - Anne TraftonMIT neuroscientists have found that the brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDAvatarAvatarCheap, plentiful and devastating: The synthetic drug kush is walloping Sierra Leoneverified_publisherNPR - Tommy TrenchardIt's barely 9 a.m. but the cramped alleyways of Kaduna in the western end of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, are already packed with young men. They sit hunched over on low wooden benches, their eyes closed, heads lolling. Periodically, one lights up a skinny joint, takes a few drags and slumps …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow Loneliness Is Killing Us: A Primer from Harvard Psychiatrist & Zen Priest Robert Waldingeropenculture.com - Colin MarshallIn 1966, Paul McCartney famously sang of “all the lonely people,” wondering aloud where they come from. Nearly six decades later, their numbers seem …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoWhatever the Supreme Court decides, California can’t keep criminalizing homelessnesscalmatters.org - Jeffrey SelbinThe U.S. Supreme Court has accepted a case with potentially catastrophic consequences for homeless people in California – and for the Constitution.On …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow loneliness is killing us, according to a Harvard professorbigthink.com - Robert WaldingerLoneliness is quietly spreading across our society. Robert Waldinger, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, explores the roots of this …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDAvatarAvatarIt's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are inverified_publisherNPR - Nurith AizenmanIt's an unprecedented – and massive – experiment: Since 2017 the U.S.-based charity GiveDirectly has been providing thousands of villagers in Kenya what's called a "universal basic income" – a cash grant that's the equivalent of about $50, delivered every month, with the commitment to keep the …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDAvatarAvatarAn Opioid Deadlier Than Fentanyl Is on The Rise, Experts Warnverified_publisherScienceAlert - Colin DavidsonThe synthetic opioid fentanyl is well known for the many lives it has claimed – mainly in the US, but elsewhere too. Now, a less well-known class of …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoA story about two pairs of boots illustrates how rich people get richer in ways poor people can'tverified_publisherupworthy.com - Annie ReneauIt’s got nothing to do with bootstraps. Any time conversations about wealth and poverty come up, people inevitably start talking about boots. The …
Avatar Angel D. Newton, PhDAvatarAvatarPoverty experts find that where you grow up largely determines how you do in lifeThe 19th - Mariel PadillaAuthors of a new book on poverty point to how decades-old factors have turned parts of rural America into the country’s poorest places, where women …