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3 Keys For New Grads Seeking That First Job and The...

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2025/11/11

What if preventing cognitive decline was as simple as protecting your heart?Charles H. Hennekens, M.D., FACPM, First Sir Richard Doll Professor of Medicine and Preventive Medicine at Florida Atlantic Universitys Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, shares his latest research, showing that cognitive decline isn't an inevitable part of aging. His studies demonstrate that the same lifestyle interventions protecting your heartmanaging blood pressure, controlling diabetes, maintaining healthy

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3 Keys For New Grads Seeking That First Job and The...

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2025/11/11

What happens when a life-changing spiritual experience leaves you feeling more isolated than enlightened? Marieta Pehlivanova, PhD, Research Assistant Professor in the University of Virginia Healths Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences, reveals groundbreaking research on near-death experiences that challenges our assumptions about these profound events.

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3 Keys For New Grads Seeking That First Job and The...

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2025/11/11

Career coach Laura Brown, co-author of Interview Speak: What Your Interviewer Really Wants to Know, reveals the shocking truth about today's job market: employers aren't just looking for qualified candidatesthey're actively screening out those who seem desperate or disingenuous. She outlines the three critical elements new graduates must demonstrate and why most fail at proving they actually want the specific job they're applying for

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Practical Strategies in Raising Boys and West Nile...

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2025/11/11

Research overwhelmingly shows TikTok is addictive. Meredith E. David, PhD, Associate Professor of Marketing in the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University study, found that approximately 25% of TikTok users qualify as addicted, where users lose track of how long they've been scrolling. She offers advice to get your screen time under control.

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Practical Strategies in Raising Boys and West Nile...

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2025/11/11

West Nile virus cases have been reported across 43 states in 202540% higher than normalbut only 15% of Americans are concerned about contracting the disease. Ken Winneg, managing director of survey research at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, explains symptoms and how best to use mosquito repellent to protect yourself.

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Practical Strategies in Raising Boys and West Nile...

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2025/11/11

Teens actually want to talk to their parents-but timing is everything. In her eye-opening interviews with 85 boys aged 10-22, Joanna Schroeder, journalist, and co-author of Talk To Your Boys: 16 Conversations to Help Tweens and Teens Grow into Confident, Caring Young Men, discovered that teens are most receptive to difficult conversations during evening hours when their circadian rhythms naturally align for deeper discussion.

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Predictive Data for Safer Roads and When Social Media...

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2025/11/10

Cybersecurity training programs are failing spectacularlyand putting lives at risk. Grant Ho, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Chicago, says his research shows these initiatives barely reduce phishing risks at all. Whether employees completed training recently or months ago, their vulnerability to phishing attacks remained virtually identical.

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Predictive Data for Safer Roads and When Social Media...

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2025/11/10

Teens getting sex advice from Snapchat and Instagram might be setting themselves up for risky sexual behavior. Eric Anderman, Professor of Educational Psychology at Ohio State University, found that teens who turned to peer-interactive social media platforms like Snapchat, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, and Instagram for sexual information demonstrated higher intentions to have sex, weaker condom-negotiation skills, and reduced confidence in refusing unwanted sexual encounters.

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Predictive Data for Safer Roads and When Social Media...

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2025/11/10

Drivers who use their phones behind the wheel are 240% more likely to crash. Now, with over 50 million users now opting into smartphone-based driving behavior monitoring to get lower insurance rates, Ryan McMahon, Senior VP at Cambridge Mobile Telematics, would like government agencies to utilize the treasure trove of personal data collected by insurance companies to develop prevention strategies and fix problem intersections.

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