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5 Exercises To Strengthen Your Erector Spinae Muscles | Well+Good The erector spinae are a group of rope-like muscles that run up and down the sides of your spine. They’re largely responsible for stabilizing the back and allowing us to freely rotate, bend, and extend. According to Deidre Douglas, EdD, a Les Mills US presenter and instructor, it’s this column of muscles that plays such a vital role in good posture. Continued here

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To Make Better Hires, Learn What Predicts Success Hiring the best talent remains a persistent struggle for many companies. That’s because they are doing it wrong — often looking at the labor pool for carbon copies of people who are already successful in their roles. But that is being too demanding, particularly during a tight labor market. Instead, employers should borrow an approach from baseball, in which top teams track the performance of new hires and then search for the one or two skills or experiences that predicted their future success. For digital journalists, for instance, it might be the social engagement with published articles. To do this, companies must better connect hiring with performance management. Continued here

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Workplace diversity programmes often fail, or backfire Diversity and anti-harassment training is a booming industry. International company surveys suggest the number of people hired for jobs with “diversity” or “inclusion” in the title has more than quadrupled since 2010. Attempts to reduce discrimination and harassment in the workplace are laudable, and make good business sense. But only if they work. Continued here

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Remote work is probably hurting your body and brain--but there are simple ways to fight it In spring 2020, at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic, many employees found themselves unexpectedly setting up home offices and settling in to flatten the curve. Beds, dining tables, couches: Anything could be a workspace in this new world. Now, nearly three years later, many people have finally returned to the office, albeit more frequently following a hybrid model. But the 59% of Americans who work from home some—if not all—of the time might find themselves stuck with the bad WFH habits they developed at the start of the pandemic. And it could be hurting their bodies and brains. Continued here

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Tinder's Fatphobia Problem There are certain archetypes you encounter when dating as a fat person — particularly a woman who dates men. There’s the guy who sees right past you, swiping left on plus-size profiles automatically. There’s the one who swipes right, then turns vicious, telling you to kill your fat disgusting pig self should you not accept his advances or simply not respond fast enough. Perhaps the most frustrating is the guy who seems genuinely into you, only to reveal (weeks later) that he’s mostly just interested in enjoying your fat body for secret sex and/or fetishizing. Continued here

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The "fairness" debate over student loan forgiveness, explained There are two leading — and overlapping — criticisms of the loan forgiveness plan. One question is whether debt forgiveness is the right thing to do. It asks whether forgiving student loans is the best way to spend an estimated $500 billion, given that some, though not all, of those who benefit have college degrees and relatively high household incomes. Continued here

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Why the housing market is about to crash The existence of the 50-year mortgage shows lenders are desperate. Continued here

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What is the energy price cap and could I end up paying even more? However, soaring wholesale energy prices have turned everything upside down. Those fixed-price deals that people signed up for typically ran for 12 or 24 months, and most of them will have expired by now, so about 85% of the population – roughly 24m households – are now sitting on default tariffs. Continued here

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AI-generated art illustrates another problem with computers | John Naughton It all started with the headline over an entry in Charlie Warzel’s Galaxy Brain newsletter in the Atlantic: “Where Does Alex Jones Go From Here?” This is an interesting question because Jones is an internet troll so extreme that he makes Donald Trump look like Spinoza. For many years, he has parlayed a radio talkshow and a website into a comfortable multimillion-dollar business peddling nonsense, conspiracy theories, falsehoods and weird merchandise to a huge tribe of adherents. And until 4 August he had got away with it. On that day, though, he lost an epic defamation case brought against him by parents of children who died in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre – a tragedy that he had consistently ridiculed as a staged hoax; a Texas jury decided that he should pay nearly $50m in damages for publishing this sadistic nonsense. Continued here

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Ask Ethan: Does light really live forever? One of the most enduring ideas in all the Universe is that everything that exists now will someday see its existence come to an end. The stars, galaxies, and even the black holes that occupy the space in our Universe will all some day burn out, fade away, and otherwise decay, leaving what we think of as a “heat death” state: where no more energy can possibly be extracted, in any way, from a uniform, maximum entropy, equilibrium state. But, perhaps, there are exceptions to this general rule, and that some things will truly live on forever. Continued here

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One of the Last Living Manhattan Project Scientists Looks Back at the Atomic Bomb Tests The world’s first atomic bomb, nicknamed the “Gadget,” was scheduled to be tested at a carefully selected site code-named Trinity in a barren valley near Alamogordo, New Mexico, 200 miles south of Los Alamos. It represented the culmination of the Manhattan Project, the massive, top-secret effort mobilizing American scientific ingenuity and industrial might to produce a superweapon unlike any the world had seen. Sparked by a 1939 letter from Albert Einstein and physicist Leo Szilárd to President Franklin D. Roosevelt warning of Nazi Germany’s nuclear weapons potential, the project was fully authorized in 1942 and would eventually employ hundreds of thousands of people across the nation, few of whom had any inkling of the goal of their labors. Continued here

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I'm 65 and have $300,000 in student debt. I and other older debtors are going on strike | Lystra Small-Clouden Sadly, this news does almost nothing for me and millions of others. It falls far short of what economic and racial justice demands. That's why I have joined over 250 people, all over age 50, who are pledging to strike our student loans when payments resume. Our numbers are growing every day. Continued here

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Radiocarbon dating only works half the time - we may have found the solution This work was partially supported by the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Grant EP/N509735/1 to U.E. and by the MRC (MR/R025126/1), the Crafoord Foundation, the Swedish Research Council (2020-03485), and the Erik Philip-Sorensen Foundation (G2020-011) awards to E.E. The computations were enabled by resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Lund, partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2018-05973. Continued here

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NBA Stars Discover the Limits of the Player Empowerment Era LeBron James and Kevin Durant earned their seats at the table, but all of their suggestions haven’t exactly gone to plan, leaving both them and their franchises in precarious positions Continued here

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Should LeBron Request a Trade? If the Lakers don’t make a change, it could be time for LeBron James to consider his options. Where could he go? And what would another ring do for his legacy? Continued here

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The Psychology of Cringe Comedy: Why We Love to Watch What Hurts Us From ‘Da Ali G Show’ to viral TikTok videos, cringe comedy persists within pop culture. And oftentimes, the genre’s appeal is as much about the way we perceive ourselves as the comics we watch performing it. Continued here

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Blonde Wants to Hurt You “In the movies, they chop you all to bits,” Ana de Armas’s Marilyn Monroe says about halfway through Blonde. “It’s like a jigsaw puzzle, but you’re not the one to put it together.” She’s supposedly talking about the way all movies are put together, but of course, it’s also a thinly veiled reference to the way this particular movie has been put together. Or rather, not put together: Andrew Dominik’s Blonde is, in effect, a jigsaw puzzle about Norma Jeane Mortenson and Marilyn Monroe that has been left purposefully incomplete, seen in captivating and terrifying fragments. And it’s chopped her to bits, almost literally. From the flashbulbs and klieg lights and cables surrounding Marilyn that open the film to the endless cruelties enacted upon her body and soul, it’s a movie about the creation and fragmentation of identity. And it is brutal, its lush surfaces and old Hollywood recreations almost always giving way to unspeakable horrors. Continued here

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Why Do So Many Recipes Call for So Little Garlic? As the memes go, the proper way to measure garlic is with your heart. One clove is not enough for any recipe, unless it’s a recipe for “how to cook one clove of garlic,” in which case you should still use two. More extreme: When the recipe calls for one clove, use at least a head. Why? Because there is no such thing as too much garlic. Continued here

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Five Ingredient Anti-Inflammatory Blueberry Bread Recipe | Well+Good Enter: Pantone’s 2022 color of the year, Very Peri. The color is a blend of blues with violet-red undertones that are said to encompass a joyous attitude that encourages creativity, expression, and trust. Knowing this, it comes as little surprise that we've been finding ourselves gravitating towards the periwinkle-like color this season in more ways than just how we dress—recipes included. Continued here

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The Best Steam Deck Games Of 2022 But Steam is a big marketplace, and not every game works well on the Deck. While many hit games do run well on the device, some won’t launch, while others will have you chasing through various settings and scrolling forums and Reddit posts for solutions. Fun for the tech enthusiast, but not ideal when you just want a great gaming experience. Valve has made the process easier by labeling certain games “Verified” on the device, but sometimes that’s not always a guarantee that a game will run without issue. Continued here

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Video Game Guide Writers Help Keep the Lights On But Get No Respect Alex Seedhouse has spent the last few weeks playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3, a mammoth Japanese role-playing game for the Switch that takes a minimum 54 hours to beat. But Seedhouse has been playing for more than 200 hours to write a comprehensive guide to playing the game and finding its secrets for the website he works for, Nintendo Insider. Earlier this month, Seedhouse accused rival website Screen Rant of plagiarizing his work, a claim Seedhouse said was verifiable because of “deliberate errors” in his work that were copied. Continued here

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Want to Raise Successful Kids? Neuroscience Says Teach Them This Crucial Brain Habit Bottom line upfront, according to their results: Teach your kids not to get as tired as you are. Continued here

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The Solution to the Trump Judge Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About At some point, one truly runs out of euphemisms for lawless partisan hackery. Continued here

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The Reign of Queen Elizabeth II Has Ended Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday, at Balmoral Castle, in Scotland, at the age of ninety-six, became monarch in the early hours of February 6, 1952—although, famously, she remained unaware of her transmutation for several hours. King George VI died in his sleep at the Sandringham estate, in Norfolk, as Elizabeth, his eldest daughter, was more than four thousand miles away, on a safari holiday in Kenya. “She became Queen while in a perch in a tree in Africa, watching the rhinoceros come down to the pool to drink,” Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and politician, wrote in his diary. A member of the royal party later recollected an auspicious occurrence: around sunrise, an eagle had soared over Elizabeth’s head at roughly the moment when the King died. Continued here

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Why is Wine Country tourism so slow? 'You're out a few thousand dollars before you walk into a winery' Many Napa and Sonoma County business owners have described a slowdown, attributing it to a number of factors, including the surge in international travel and inflation. The costs of gas, airfare and lodging are all on the rise. Wine tasting fees have also gotten more expensive in Napa and Sonoma counties.  Continued here

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World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage It may have cost around $1.4 billion to built, but the Global Dream II is destined to be trash. Continued here

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How Amazon Consumed All of Commerce If you’ve ever tried to research how the Big Bad Tech Monopolies of our time got so big and bad, you’ll find that these stories are typically pretty straightforward. Google, for example, started as a search engine company in the mid-90's, and spent decades buying and bullying competitors until it swallowed just about all of the search engine market. Facebook started as a social network, and then copied or bought out the competition until it became the most popular social network on the planet. But Amazon... well, Amazon’s a bit different. Continued here

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Bloomberg - Are you a robot? Continued here

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The Crypto Geniuses Who Vaporized a Trillion Dollars Everyone trusted the two guys at Three Arrows Capital. They knew what they were doing — right? Continued here

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5 Ways to Stand Out in Your Next Job Interview Interviewing for a new role may just be the most daunting part of the entire job hunt. You spend hours researching prospective employers, prepping answers to the same ten questions, and putting on your bravest and most confident face for each recruiter. You have one goal in mind: to make a positive and memorable impression. Continued here

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How Much Work Should You Ask to See From Job Candidates? I've recently read some pushback on employers that ask candidates, as part of the hiring process, to complete assignments that may take many hours to do. At my law firm, we have recently moved to giving legal research and writing assignments to our attorney candidates. I would not be surprised if these projects take 10-20 hours. We don't use the work, because we give them questions to which we already know the answers. We've found this to be an incredibly effective evaluation method. We've had people whose writing samples were fine, but who did an inadequate job on the assignment. And we've had people whose work on the project was better than expected and tipped them over the edge to getting an offer. A two-hour skills test would not give us particularly useful information, because a major part of what we want to know is whether someone with a difficult question and limited time can put together a well-researched, well-organized, substantial piece of legal writing and make it convincing. Continued here

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You Got the Big Job Offer. What If You Don't Want It? "None of us have felt in control for a long time," says Daisy Dowling, the chief executive of Workparent, a coaching and consulting company that serves organizations from law firms to sports leagues. "There's a real sense of, 'Gosh, darn it, I'm going to do the thing that's right for me. I'm not going to get pushed around by circumstances anymore.'" Continued here

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4 exercises that can prevent (and relieve!) pain from computer slouching and more : Life Kit That's the concept behind Vinh Pham's new book, Sit Up Straight: Futureproof Your Body Against Chronic Pain with 12 Simple Movements. Pham, a physical therapist with over a decade of experience, shares a set of exercises aimed at helping to prevent bodily pain that lasts for over three months due to injury, exercise, bad posture or other factors — and relieve it, too. Practicing these movements consistently, he says, can extend your range of motion and increase your flexibility. Continued here

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Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: a neurologist's tips for fighting memory loss and Alzheimer's You walk into a room, but can't remember what you came in for. Or you bump into an old acquaintance at work, and forget their name. Most of us have had momentary memory lapses like this, but in middle age they can start to feel more ominous. Do they make us look unprofessional, or past it? Could this even be a sign of impending dementia? The good news for the increasingly forgetful, however, is that not only can memory be improved with practice, but that it looks increasingly as if some cases of Alzheimer's may be preventable too. Continued here

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Your body may be pushing you to make worse choices after a day of hard thinking, study finds Does it feel like you don't have much control over the decisions you make after a long day of hard thinking? You are not alone. New research has shown the biological processes behind cognitive fatigue, and experts share what you can do about it. Continued here

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How Mathematics Changed Me I have written about mathematics for The New Yorker and, lately, also in my book “A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age,” and I thought that I had said everything I had to say about mathematics and my simple engagement with it, but I find I can’t stop thinking about it. Continued here

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Actually, Canceling Student Debt Will Cut Inflation We want to fight inflation and we want to keep the labor market strong. One of the most important ways to achieve both goals is to forgive a portion of student-loan debt. And yesterday, President Joe Biden announced that he was doing just that—canceling up to $10,000 in student debt for those making less than $125,000 and designating an additional $10,000 in loan forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients. Yet critics are attacking the measure, even at its modest level and with its targeted exclusions and benefits, as inflationary and unfair. Continued here

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Student loan forgiveness applications could open within weeks. Take these 4 steps now to get ready The vast majority — roughly 37 million borrowers — will be eligible for the forgiveness based on their loan type because their debt is under what's called the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program. That group includes Direct Stafford Loans, and all Direct subsidized and unsubsidized federal student loans. Under the Direct program, Parent Plus and Grad Loans, are also eligible for the relief. Continued here

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My Family Is About to Lose $300,000 in Income. How Do I Live Like a Normal Person Now? Will we have to join Costco? Continued here

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7 Gboard settings that'll supercharge your Android typing This doesn't get nearly enough attention among average tech-totin' animals, but Android has an awesome advantage over that (cough, cough) other mobile platform when it comes to text input. All it takes is two minutes of trying to type text on an iDevice to see just how much of a good thing we've got goin' (and to make yourself want to gouge your eyes out with the nearest overpriced Apple accessory). Continued here

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Android 13 review: The update we need, not the one we want Google's ready to show Android owners just how luck the number 13 can be. Continued here

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Huawei founder's bleak memo about the future strikes a chord in China Ren’s message offers an honest reading of China’s economic prospects, which is rare in the country, according to experts. Continued here

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A history of botany and colonialism touched off by a moss bed | Aeon Essays Inside a rainforest or on the city pavement, moss asks so little yet offers so much: a tactile encounter with time itself Continued here

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Sleep More, Save the Planet? Who has the right to sleep? In the ongoing climate crisis, it’s just another area where the scales are tipped toward injustice. Continued here

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Historical data is not a kitten, it's a sabre-toothed tiger | Aeon Essays Is history a matter of individual agency and action, or of finding and quantifying underpinning structures and patterns? Continued here

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Dorothy Roberts Tried to Warn Us The legal scholar has been writing about the criminalization of pregnancy for 25 years. Now she’s calling to abolish the child welfare system. Continued here

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The Baseball Stadium That "Forever Changed" Professional Sports Camden Yards, which opened 30 years ago this summer, is revered for its design and downtown location. But its influence—along with its lessons—extends beyond architecture. Continued here

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Simmering tension, a 'declining player' and a public breakup: Inside Seattle's trade of Russell Wilson To Wilson, who was in Tampa, Florida, to receive his Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, the game was an unsettling reminder of what he wanted and didn't have, of where his career was after nine seasons with the Seattle Seahawks as compared to the quarterbacks on the field before him. On one side, there was Tom Brady getting hit twice all night, winning his seventh Super Bowl at age 43 and doing it with a collection of marquee players, several of whom the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had signed at his request. On the other side, there was Patrick Mahomes throwing 49 times in a pass-happy Kansas City Chiefs offense that had helped him win an MVP. Continued here

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How We Should Remember Bruce Willis' Career We can choose a better ending for the story of the unlikely movie star who rocketed to the top of the world. Continued here

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What Did It Take to Be the First Black Editor of British Vogue? Born in the Ghanain port city of Takoradi, Enninful was inspired by his mother, a seamstress who ran a successful dressmaking business, who was distinguished by her ability to mix-and-match Western and West African fabrics. Beyond the home, Enninful found inspiration in Black American publications like Ebony and Jet that he’d source through his aunt. Black beauty, in all of its iterations and fantasies that those particular magazines could create became a fixation for Enninful, one that has fueled him throughout his 34-year career. When he was 13 years old, he moved to the U.K. as a refugee. Three years later, he was scouted as a model by Simon Foxton. At 18 years old, he was hired at i-D magazine. He became the youngest senior staffer at i-D in its most definitive years: “Everything I learned there serves me today,” he said. Continued here

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From casseroles to curry: six ways with chicken thighs We might have once argued over the breast meat at the Sunday roast, but these days we’re more likely to clash forks over juicier, more flavoursome thighs. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, thighs are more amenable to different cooking methods and – at around half the price of breasts – they’re the more wallet-friendly option, costing about $8.50 a kilo at supermarkets. Continued here

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How To Transform Your Oven Into An Air Fryer | Well+Good So, the hard part: What to do away with? Of course, we can never get rid of our beloved air fryer, and the coffee machine is totally out of the question—don’t even think about it! However, did you know that one of our must-have kitchen appliances—aka the oven that we really can’t get rid of, despite its bulkiness—might actually do more than we initially thought. Aside from baking, broiling, and roasting, most ovens these days feature a not-so-hidden function that we really wish we had noticed sooner. Lo and behold, the convection setting. Continued here

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How To Actually Play Netflix's Surprisingly Terrific Games Yes, Netflix has some excellent games, but no one’s playing them. According to a recent report, less than 1 percent of people who subscribe to the streaming service actually avail themselves of its free games. That stat surely isn’t helped by the process you’ve gotta go through to play, which, while not totally byzantine, is more complicated than it needs to be. Continued here

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Everyone is using their Steam Deck like a better Nintendo Switch August's most played Steam Deck games make the distinction clear. Continued here

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Don't Teach Your Kids to Fear the World If you are a parent, your greatest fear in life is likely something happening to one of your kids. According to one 2018 poll from OnePoll and the Lice Clinics of America (not my usual data source, but no one else seems to measure this), parents spend an average of 37 hours a week worrying about their children; the No. 1 back-to-school concern is about their safety. And this makes sense, if you believe that safety is a foundation that has to be established before dealing with other concerns. Continued here