Watch for e-scooters
Between devastating head and bone injuries incurred children and teens and complaints from pedestrians and users of mobility device users, e-scooters proponents continue to have a bumpy ride. If your curious about the legal status and regulations in your province or municipality.
Visit ezbike.ca
Skin care ads influence kids
Parents are alarmed when their kids as young as 10 areled by celebrity and influencer social postings that push them to feel the desperate need to use anti-aging creams and serums to be accepted by their peers. Marketed with persuasive campaigns and using unnecessarily potent ingredients that promise “perfect skin”, experts suggest some of these products are both too harsh for young skin and their pocket books.
Source: Mumsnet
AI impacts the environment
Chatbots and other similar technologies are attracting scrutiny fore their voracious energy demands. Linked to the need for an increased number of data centres and systematic avoidance of the chatbots solutions to the environmental challenges. Biases also exist in who chatbots see has responsible for or vulnerable social, cultural, economic issues that are entangled in environmental challenges.
Source: The Conversation
It’s still the physical environment
Stats reports three in five (59%) experience work-related barriers to accessibility. Their most common (49%) was the physical environment, seconded by communication (41%), then transportation (35%) and technology (35%).
Source: Survey Series on Accessibility
Skipping the dentist
Young adults, especially females, are avoiding dental care for cost-related reasons. Infact, almost one-third of young adults aged 18 to 34 (32%) didn’t see an oral health professional last year.
Study: Cost-related avoidance of oral health services
Don’t try Sleepmaxxing
With 98.6 million TikTok posts, and bizarre recommendations like taping your mouth shut, mainlining Kiwi and pineal gland meditation, “sleepmaxxing” is unproven. Experts say don’t do it! While some ideas like sleeping in a cooler room and checking your magnesium levels, may have some validity, general wisdom is to avoid gimmicks and stop obsessing. When you relinquish control, stop worrying and let your body lead, you may just nod off all on your own.
Source: Vogue
Cancer, alcohol, and women
Alcohol washes the body with toxins that can alter hormone levels, trigger or exacerbate cancer risk.
Source: HCM
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