Young people want financial control and have security concerns as industry professionals lament slowdown

https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/bartenders-spill-beans-gen-zs-annoying-drink-by-drink-payment-habit

New study finds rumination can cause those with depression to get ‘stuck’ on thoughts, limiting their ability to mentally juggle options available to them when making decisions.

https://www.bps.org.uk/research-digest/sticky-thinking-hampers-decisions-depression

https://nypost.com/2025/06/20/health/why-old-people-smell-happens-and-a-superfood-to-prevent-it/

A pineapple shirt on a cruise brings out all the swingers.

https://www.outkick.com/culture/horny-women-cruise-kept-flirting-guy-pineapple-shirt-who-claims-he-had-no-idea-why

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

https://apnews.com/article/brazil-realist-dolls-viral-560a5d24cca3ab04c2094d3c79686a94

Tripling reading level through tutoring

https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/how-i-taught-my-3-year-old-to-read

https://theconversation.com/making-eye-contact-and-small-talk-with-strangers-is-more-than-just-being-polite-the-social-benefits-of-psychological-generosity-252477

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https://studyfinds.org/how-7000-steps-reduce-cancer-risk/

The struggle to obtain these medications illustrates the dangerous mess the US healthcare system has become, writes the former FDA chief

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/16/glp-1-weight-loss-drugs-are-revolutionary-and-theyre-exposing-americas-healthcare-crisis

Findings show for first time how plastic chemicals throw off the body’s internal clock by up to 17 minutes

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/09/plastic-chemicals-sleep

In this op-ed, Gabby Burke wonders what happened to teen romance in the Snapchat era, examining the state of dating culture for youth.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/is-teen-romance-dead-snapchat-situationships

A growing awareness of bullying and abuse have made many fear this rite of passage, but others say the positives outweigh the risks

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