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Dad, Software Developer, Gardener, Hack Musician

Prince Edward County
Joined April 2022
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Jesse Parker retweeted
New advisory from the US @Surgeon_General Vivek Murthy, on Social Media and Youth Mental Health. Notes the importance of protecting early puberty, when brain is rewiring rapidly. nytimes.com/2023/05/23/well/…
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Jesse Parker retweeted
Is social media a major cause of the teen mental illness epidemic? Journalists often say "the evidence is just correlational." They are wrong. I lay out the longitudinal, experimental, and quasi-experimental evidence here. There's a lot of it now: jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p…
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Jesse Parker retweeted
Here's my first full post on the new After Babel substack: I present the evidence that an epidemic of mental illness began among American teens around 2012. It's not just changes in self-report. And it's not just "kids these days." jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p…
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Fearful for our kids' futures, we don't want them wasting time. We want them LEARNING. So we put them in adult-run activities to hurry them toward success. BUT! You you did not spend all YOUR free time being "taught." You played. Did stuff just for fun. That IS the fast track!
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