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Does It Pay to Be Ruthless? [greatergood.berkeley.edu]

In highly competitive industries, like politics or finance, many people assume that you need to be cutthroat and merciless to be successful. Otherwise, you won’t win the hard battles or take big risks for big returns. But a 2016 study found that U.S. senators displaying more ruthless, psychopathic behaviors had less support among colleagues for their proposed bills. And now, another study recently published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin reveals that walking all over others...

More States Need to Halt Prosecution of Youth as Adults [jjie.org]

This month marks one year since the passage of Proposition 57 , a California ballot measure that prohibited district attorneys from filing charges against youth as young as 14 directly in adult criminal court through a practice known as “direct file.” The initiative passed with 64 percent of the vote, signaling strong popular support for curtailing prosecutorial authority and expanding access to the rehabilitative benefits of the juvenile justice system. While juvenile courts are premised on...

Trans Youth Use Theater to Raise Awareness and Change Policy [yesmagazine.org]

At a community building in the small town of Port Townsend, Washington, the cast of “Queer Survival Quest” is gathering before tonight’s play. Mel Edwards, 22, puts on eyeliner. Max Stewart, 14, hands out pretzels. Jax DeLuna, 19, has brought a blanket. He groans and drags himself to a quiet corner. Last night’s performance was three hours long, and tonight’s will be, too. Seven young people, ages 14 to 23, are all transgender (an “umbrella term,” the program explains, “for any gender...

The Most Unrealistic Expectation of Them All [blogs.psychcentral.com]

Yesterday, you ran 5 miles, prepared dinner for several nights, completed a complicated work project and organized your entire office. Or you checked off every task from your very long to-do list. Your focus barely waned and the day almost felt seamless. Today, you showered, put cream cheese on a bagel, and feel like a zombie (or whatever has less energy than that). Your brain is bare. In fact, you can barely string together simple sentences. Everything feels like it requires so much effort,...

Breaking 'the Backbone of Segregation' [citylab.com]

Back in 1915, a man named William Warley put in a bid on a property in Louisville, Kentucky. The owner, Charles Buchanan, accepted the bid. But the sale wasn’t squarely legal. Warley, the buyer, was black. Buchanan was white. Buchanan’s property was located in a white neighborhood, and a Louisville ordinance forbid black residents from moving into predominantly white areas (and vice-versa). Warley acknowledged the sale’s dubious legality with a provision he put in the contract: This way,...

Fighting Health Problems at Their Source: Childhood Trauma [wvpublic.org]

The opioid epidemic. Obesity. Low workforce participation. These adult problems have their roots in childhood trauma. Dr. Michael Brumage wants West Virginians to understand what the research shows - that exposure to childhood trauma can lead to a variety of public health problems in adulthood. Brumage is talking about ACES: Adverse Childhood Experiences. In a recent study, West Virginia children scored higher than the national average of 46 percent. [For more on this story by SCOTT FINN, go...

Golden Empire Transit

With funding from First 5 Kern, Advancing Parenting has placed our fifty parenting tips on the 120 buses and shuttles of G.E.T. in Bakersfield, CA. These tips will be read 1000s of times by 1000s of people of all ages. We call this proactive, passive/public parenting education...a way to prevent adverse childhood experiences. Visit advancingparenting.org to see all of the fifty tips and read about what we do, why we do it, and our plans for the future.

Healing the Helper: Reinstating Resilience - a TWO day intensive

Many mistakenly believe that resilience is about grit - "toughing it out" or "persevering through hardship." Fortunately, a new paradigm supported by research is emerging. Resilience is about more than the power of the mind to overcome. Resilience is about the body's stress response and its ability to remain in a healthy range of arousal and settling without getting stuck in an over or under activated state. In this unique, one of kind workshop, participants will become "re-embodied" to...

Childhood trauma could be causing your adult health problems [adn.com]

It’s no secret that Alaska struggles with high rates of sexual assault and abuse, neglect, and other crimes against children. Alaska consistently has one of the five highest child abuse rates in the country, according to the Child Welfare League of America. The state Office of Children’s Services told Alaska Dispatch News this summer that in 2017 it has averaged more than 50 reports of abuse and neglect per day. What's less well known is that these kinds of traumatic experiences, along with...

Strength exercise as vital as aerobic new research finds [sciencedaily.com]

The largest study to compare the mortality outcomes of different types of exercise found people who did strength-based exercise had a 23 percent reduction in risk of premature death by any means, and a 31 percent reduction in cancer-related death. Lead author Associate Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis from the School of Public Health and the Charles Perkins Centre said while strength training has been given some attention for functional benefits as we age, little research has looked at its...

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Little-Known, Arresting Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life for the World’s Fair of 1900 [brainpickings.org]

On a recent research visit to the Emily Dickinson museum and archives in Amherst, I chanced upon a most improbable discovery of forgotten, pioneering work by another titan of culture. When thirty-one-year-old W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23, 1868–August 27, 1963) heard that the World’s Fair to be held in Paris in 1900 would include a special exhibition on the subject of sociology, he saw in it an opportunity to open the world’s eyes to what had been occupying him for nearly a decade — “the...

Addressing the Opioid Crisis Means Confronting Socioeconomic Disparities [drugabuse.gov]

The brain adapts and responds to the environments and conditions in which a person lives. When we speak of addiction as a chronic disorder of the brain, it thus includes an understanding that some individuals are more susceptible to drug use and addiction than others, not only because of genetic factors but also because of stress and a host of other environmental and social factors in their lives that have made them more vulnerable. Opioid addiction is often described as an “equal...

What About the ‘Lost Children’ (and Mothers) of America? [themarshallproject.org]

In “ The Lost Children of Tuam ,” the New York Times tells the tragic story of “mother and baby” homes in Ireland, facilities for unmarried mothers where infants died by the hundreds. Those who survived were forcibly separated from their mothers and routinely abused. The mother and baby homes were closely related to and preceded by Ireland’s infamous Magdalene Laundries, Catholic institutions that enslaved thousands of “fallen” women during the 19th and 20th centuries. What the Times article...

How Racial Data Gets 'Cleaned' in the U.S. Census [theatlantic.com]

At a doctor’s visit, on a college-admissions application, or even in a consumer-marketing survey, Americans are regularly asked to classify themselves by race. Some protest this request by “declining to answer,” as forms often allow. After all, racial categories are social constructs . They don’t connote biological or genetic difference. As an African American, I have never had difficulty knowing which box I am meant to check. Whether I do so depends on my understanding of why the...

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