Abstracts: Healthy Silence, a Generation on ADHD Drugs, and More
• In 2011, Finland began branding itself as an attractive tourist destination because of the county’s silence. They might have been on to something — research has linked silence to better cell development and decreased stress. (Nautilus)
20 years after a wave of ADHD diagnosis, young adults are struggling to define themselves without the addictive drugs. (Visual by Practical Curses/Flickr)
• Two decades after a wave of prescriptions were written for children with ADHD, a generation of young adults is struggling with what to do about the addictive drugs that have come to define them. (Pacific Standard)
• Since the 1970s, earth scientists have photographed a curb in Hayward, California that has been slowly cracking as tectonic forces move one side of the sidewalk, but not the other. This June, city workers fixed it, unwittingly destroying “a curbside laboratory for earthquakes.” (LA Times)
• At the center of the White House’s climate plan is a “clean coal” power plant in Mississippi. But mismanagement, deceit and secrecy have turned this hopeful promise into “more boondoggle than boon.” (New York Times)
• Living a more actively happy and fulfilling life can do more than improve our outlook. It can have profound, genetic effects. (New Yorker)
• Albinism is still stigmatized and little understood in many East African communities, and that can be difficult for the children afflicted with it, as well as their parents. (Al Jazeera English)
• Being bullied can leave psychological scars that last into adulthood, but those traumatic experiences may have a silver lining. (Slate)
• When it comes to business strategy, Microsoft is going all-in on Artificial Intelligence. (The Verge)
• In the biotech world, the most active guinea pig of new drugs is often the company’s own CEO. (STAT)
• And finally, the International Space Station will soon get a receiver that will allow biologists to track the real-time movement of hundreds or thousands of animals from space. (The Atlantic)