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Smartphone Addiction Is a Plague
2015-12-02 18:02:03| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide
From the Crackberry to iPhone, hand-held devices have taken over our minds and destroyed all etiquette. Why?
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Smartphone Addiction Is a Plague
2015-12-02 14:00:00| PC Magazine: the Official John C. Dvorak RSS Feed
From the Crackberry to iPhone, hand-held devices have taken over our minds and destroyed all etiquette. Why?
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How the US started to break its fossil fuel addiction 12 steps in 50 years
2015-11-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: 1965: The White House first acknowledges the risks of climate change, just a few weeks after Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes president. This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, Johnson tells Congress on 8 February 1965. That November, he tells Congress the burning of coal, oil and gas is adding 6bn tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere every year. Global...
Tackling teen smartphone addiction in South Korea
2015-10-26 02:01:33| Wireless - Topix.net
Located in the rural part of Muju, North Jeolla Province, the Internet Dream Village at first glimpse looks like another humble house in the countryside, surrounded by a large number of apple trees and pink garden cosmos flowers. But the property is in fact South Korea's only state-run institution for teenagers addicted to the Internet and smartphones.
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A police chief found a clever way to fight drug addiction: Calling out pharma CEOs
2015-09-21 18:51:29| Biotech - Topix.net
The Massachusetts city's police chief, Leonard Campanello, took to Facebook last week with a snarky message - "Gotta go make some calls" - followed by the names, phone numbers and salaries of the top-earning pharmaceutical executives from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Abbott Laboratories and Eli Lilly and Co. The point, he said, was to encourage people to put pressure on drug makers to do their part in inhibiting opiate addiction.
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