What Are We High On Now?
More than 1 in 10 Americans used marijuana 2012. But pot isn’t gaining users as fast as heroin or LSD. Nor is it the most addictive drug.
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What Is Executive Brain Function?
Like many brain deficits, ADHD affects frontal lobe executive functioning, which coordinates everything we do by processing and organizing information.
Read moreRatio of Shootings In Our Own Communities
Ratio of shooters in the U.S. who attack their own communities: 2 in 3
Read moreSynchronicity
Twin sisters Erica and Tashina Ackley, 22, who found out they were pregnant on the same day, gave birth just hours apart in the same Maine hospital. “We thought it would be cool if we had our babies on the same day,” said Tashina, “but we didn’t expect that it would happen.”
Read moreOccupy Wall Street Poster Price
Price of an Occupy Wall Street poster being sold by Walmart: $52.25
Read moreMedication In The U.S.
Portion of Americans who are currently taking at least one prescription drug: 1/2 Who are taking five or more: 1/10 Estimated number of U.S. children aged two or three being prescribed ADHD medication: 14,000
Read moreGod vs. Harvey Weinstein
Number of Academy Award winners in the past twenty years who thanked God in their acceptance speeches: 7 Who thanked Harvey Weinstein: 30
Read moresubways “teeming with life”
Researchers who swabbed and tested DNA from surfaces in New York City’s subway system identified 562 species of bacteria, including microbes from mozzarella, sausage, hummus, kimchi, sauerkraut, rats, mice, and lice. Geneticist Christopher E. Mason said the bacteria found were not sufficient to cause disease, but that his work revealed the subways to be “teeming with life,” like “a rain […]
Read moreDefying your parents
12-year-old Jaxxyn Wood of Kentucky stayed up to 3 a.m. playing computer games and smelled an electrical fire in the kitchen. He woke his family and got all nine people to evacuate, thus saving their lives.
Read moreOwned Stock
Percentage of U.S. stock owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans: 89
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