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As evidence of a link between tanning beds and melanoma grows, experts are particularly concerned about teenagers.
Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that afflicts nearly 69,000 Americans each year. With more than 7,000 of those cases resulting in death, scientists are taking a hard look at tanning beds to see if they might be contributing to those numbers. And according to a new study reported in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, they likely are.
You’ve finally found a reliable sitter who’s willing to fill in for you and your husband while you get a night out, and suddenly she’s asking if she can bring her boyfriend over, too. What do you do?
That’s the question being asked in LilSugar’s recent Mommy Dearest column. Just reading the headline, my answer was a quick, “Sorry, but no.”
Cheerleading used to be about pretty girls shaking pom-poms and clapping their hands while looking adorable in short skirts. It was basically something for the popular girls to do while the boys engaged in rough stuff on the field.
That kind of cheerleading may still exist, but for many girls, cheerleading has become a highly competitive endeavor. Traveling around the country and pitting their considerable skills against those of other cheer squads, what was once an extra-curricular activity has become a full-fledged sport.
And those skills? If you think cheerleading isn’t a real sport, then you haven’t witnessed what these modern cheerleaders are doing. Building giant human pyramids, tossing each other high into the air and performing gymnastic moves that would impress Mary Lou Retton. These girls are athletes. Continue reading »
Maybe you’ve seen the signs on the highway: Give a laptop. Change the world.
The One Laptop Per Child project says its mission is to “create educational opportunities for the world’s poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.”
OLPC founder and MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte says, “When children have access to this type of tool they get engaged in their own education. They learn, share, create, and collaborate. They become connected to each other, to the world and to a brighter future.”
Really? Haven’t we been talking a lot lately about how technology is disconnecting us from our kids and disconnecting our kids from the world around them? Just the other night I was lecturing my 12-year-old niece about how if she never stops texting people she’s not with, she’s never really with the people she’s with. (Even saying that to myself makes my head spin.)
The laptop project is in the news because OLPC announced yesterday that they’ve partnered with Marvell, a computer chip and silicon manufacturer, “to develop a new family of tablet computers for the project.” The price of the tablets, to be used for education and health care in the US, “is supposed to hover around $100, but Mr. Negroponte said the ones distributed by the project could cost less, possibly $75.”
According to The New York Times,“the new tablets will offer a bevy of high-tech parts, including a full high-definition video encoder and 3-D graphics chip. In addition, the tablet will have a built-in video and still camera, a multitouch display and a soft keyboard similar to that of the Apple iPad.” Mr. Negroponte said, “the tablets will have a clean design, and be thin, measuring a height of 10.8 millimeters.” The iPad measures 12.7 millimeters.
So is this about the kids or the computers? Continue reading »
Mattel’s latest Barbie line is called the “Barbie Basic Collection” and features 12 dolls dressed in something many women couldn’t live without: The little black dress. But one of these dolls appears to be sporting something else women have grown quite fond of: Breast implants.
The Barbie in question is Model No. 10, featuring “African American skin tone, a striking Little Black Dress with a plunging neckline, and long sleek hair.” Her face we’ve seen before – it’s called the Desiree sculpt and first appeared on Barbie dolls back in 2002. But we are fairly sure would have remembered if we’d seen that cleavage before. Did Barbie get breast implants? Continue reading »
The government may take criminal action against McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the Johnson & Johnson unit that that recalled millions of bottles of liquid children’s Tylenol, Motrin, and other over-the-country pediatric medicines last month.
Sloppy quality control and a lack of corporate responsibility led to the recall, Dr. Joshua M. Sharfstein, the F.D.A.’s principal deputy commissioner, said at a congressional hearing on the issue yesterday.
The FDA said the company may face criminal penalties, product seizures or other sanctions, according to The New York Times. Continue reading »
Ever wondered if your baby has superpowers? Surely his ability to projectile vomit peas could stop some evil villain in his tracks! If you’ve got a toddler who can whip up a tornado in your living room just by lifting a hand, you’ll love this incredibly well-done Iron Man parody, Iron Baby, made by Patrick Boivin. The best part? Iron Baby is a girl! Yeah! Video after the jump. Continue reading »
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