Check out more in the NYT. (Thanks, Jas)
Friday, October 18, 2013
24 Grooms Blown Away By Their Beautiful Brides
HBR Daily Stat: Media Coverage of Terrorist Attacks Creates Its Own Adverse Effects
I can believe it:
Watching 1 to 3 hours of TV coverage per day in the week after the 9/11 terrorist attacks predicted a 20% increase in reports of physician-diagnosed physical ailments such as asthma and hypertension 2 to 3 years later, says a team led by Roxane Cohen Silver of the University of California, Irvine. This and other findings from their survey data on more than 1,700 people strongly suggest that widespread media coverage of terrorism can have negative mental- and physical-health consequences over time, even for people not directly exposed to attacks.See more of the HBR Daily Stat.
Mama Mia, Mama Mia! A Canadian Bohemian Rhapsodizes About String Theory
Read more in RadioLab. (Thanks, Claire)
An orphan goes to church and asks someone, anyone to adopt him
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