This Wednesday, an article in the New York Times reported that from 2008 to 2012 the number of adults taking medications for ADHD increased by 53% and that among young American adults, it nearly doubled. While this is a staggering statistic and points to younger generations becoming frequently reliant on stimulants, frankly, I’m not too surprised. Over my 50-year career in behavioral neurology and treating patients with ADHD, it has been in the past decade that I have seen these diagnoses truly skyrocket.
June 24, 2015 5:23 AM EDT
A Virginia man has been awarded $500,000 in medical malpractice and punitive damages by a jury after his phone’s voice recorder, accidentally left on during a procedure, captured cruel and mocking comments his doctors made about him while he was under anesthesia.
In the recording, which jurors heard as part of the three-day trial that took place in mid June, anesthesiologist Tiffany Ingham can be heard with other doctors and assistants calling the man (who remained anonymous in the case) a “wuss” and a “retard,” the Washington Post reports.
For the last year, Russell Jeung, an Asian American Studies Professor at San Francisco State University, has been tracking therise in discrimination and harassment facing Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
His work on the database Stop AAPI Hate has made the extent of those recent incidents better known to the general public, but they’re also part of a history that goes much further back than the last year—and for Jeung, that history is personal.
Surprisingly, an employee of the United Nations, an organisation known for its peaceful efforts and interventions in the world through purposes such as “promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion” , Silverstein continues to hurl insults towards religious faiths especially Muslims under her pseudonym. Arielle Silverstein and her antics online Pulse Nigeria Having had enough, Muslims began the petition for the bigotry and vilification to end, garnering support and retweets from Christians and even non-religious people.
On the long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany's greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a Jew and Bolshevik. His work, based on the centuries-old tradition of wood carving and German Gothic art, was banned as "degenerate" and typical of "the passive Slav soul."
Since World War II, the very quality the Nazis detested most in Barlach's work its expression of human striving and religious aspirationhas restored his work to the forefront of German 20th century art.
June 7, 2016 11:49 AM EDT
The legendary Guns n’ Roses frontman wants to spiff up his Internet image. The rocker has issued a takedown request with Google for a concert photo of him onstage at a show in Winnipeg, Canada in 2010. In the photo, a performing Rose is wearing a partially unbuttoned shirt and red bandana around his forehead, wild mane blowing in the wind. In comparison to the skinny rocker look of his youth, the 54-year-old singer appears to have added a few pounds.
You may not believe in the Tooth Fairy, but she believes in you and the U.S. economy in a big way. The winged pixie this year is leaving a bountiful $3.70 per tooth, on average. That’s up 23% from last year and up 42% from two years ago, according to an annual Visa survey.
This surge in generosity coincides with a strengthening economic recovery: The stock market is up this year and home prices have begun to rebound.
You may not have any interest in being a Baltimore Orioles fan. Indeed, most people have no interest in being Baltimore Orioles fans. It requires you to root for a mid-market team from a relatively small city with a middling record of success. It’s been 31 years since the Orioles were in a World Series (a cool 11,315 days if you’re counting, which Baltimore fans do, and which is one more reason you probably don’t want to be one of them).
By Uzo Aduba
April 17, 2024 7:10 AM EDT
The first time I saw Da’Vine Joy Randolph perform was during an early preview of Ghost the Musical. The ease with which she existed on that stage and the power she commanded in that room was unbelievable. Here was this girl, fresh out of Yale, totally reinventing an iconic role. She was exceptional.
It’s exciting that now we all get to experience the fullness of what Da’Vine can do.
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For the top strategists from both parties, there’s one number that dominates their thinking every four years: 270. That, of course, is the baseline of votes in the Electoral College needed to win the White House, and there’s only so many paths that either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump could viably consider to get there.