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Psychologist Peter Gray emphasizes the urgent need to reclaim independent play as a crucial tool for fostering resilient, self-reliant, and mentally healthy young individuals, countering children’s declining mental health in a world dominated by structured routines and overprotection.
In a world increasingly dominated by structured routines and adult supervision, renowned psychologist Peter Gray is not surprised that children’s mental health challenges and anxiety has been on the rise for decades.
“We are so overprotecting children, because we are so always there to solve their problems for them, they’re not developing the sense that they can solve their own problem,” Gray says, adding that clinical questionnaires conducted throughout the latter half of the 20th century showed a decline in locus of control for school-aged children as mental disorders rose. “How can you have an internal locus of control if you don’t have experience controlling your own life? One thing that clinical psychologists have long known is that if you don’t have a strong internal locus of control, that sets you up for anxiety and depression. No surprise. If I believe something can happen at any time, and there’s nothing I can do about it, that’s a very anxiety-provoking world. Things are frightening. I’m constantly anxious.”
He cites many reasons for how we got to this place, including societal shifts and an education system focused on accountability. Gray, a professor emeritus at Boston College, advocates for the urgent need to reclaim the simple yet profound act of independent play, emphasizing its impact on children’s happiness and long-term well-being.
In this episode, we explore the critical role of independent play in fostering resilient, self-reliant, and mentally healthy young individuals.
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In this episode of GZERO AI, Taylor Owen, professor at the Max Bell School of Public Policy at McGill University and director of its Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy, takes stock of the ongoing debate on whether artificial intelligence, like social media, will further drive loneliness—but at breakneck speed, or help foster meaningful relationships. Further, Owen offers insights into the latter, especially with tech companies like Replika recently demonstrating AI’s potential to ease loneliness and even connect people with their lost loved ones.
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A survey of more than 2.4 million people finds that being online can have a positive effect on welfare.
A global, 16-year study1 of 2.4 million people has found that Internet use might boost measures of well-being, such as life satisfaction and sense of purpose — challenging the commonly held idea that Internet use has negative effects on people’s welfare.US TikTok ban: how the looming restriction is affecting scientists on the app
“It’s an important piece of the puzzle on digital-media use and mental health,” says psychologist Markus Appel at the University of Würzburg in Germany. “If social media and Internet and mobile-phone use is really such a devastating force in our society, we should see it on this bird’s-eye view [study] — but we don’t.” Such concerns are typically related to behaviours linked to social-media use, such as cyberbullying, social-media addiction and body-image issues. But the best studies have so far shown small negative effects, if any2,3, of Internet use on well-being, says Appel.
The authors of the latest study, published on 13 May in Technology, Mind and Behaviour, sought to capture a more global picture of the Internet’s effects than did previous research. “While the Internet is global, the study of it is not,” said Andrew Przybylski, a researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, who studies how technology affects well-being, in a press briefing on 9 May. “More than 90% of data sets come from a handful of English-speaking countries” that are mostly in the global north, he said. Previous studies have also focused on young people, he added.
To address this research gap, Pryzbylski and his colleagues analysed data on how Internet access was related to eight measures of well-being from the Gallup World Poll, conducted by analytics company Gallup, based in Washington DC. The data were collected annually from 2006 to 2021 from 1,000 people, aged 15 and above, in 168 countries, through phone or in-person interviews. The researchers controlled for factors that might affect Internet use and welfare, including income level, employment status, education level and health problems.
The team found that, on average, people who had access to the Internet scored 8% higher on measures of life satisfaction, positive experiences and contentment with their social life, compared with people who lacked web access. Online activities can help people to learn new things and make friends, and this could contribute to the beneficial effects, suggests Appel.
The positive effect is similar to the well-being benefit associated with taking a walk in nature, says Przybylski.
However, women aged 15–24 who reported having used the Internet in the past week were, on average, less happy with the place they live, compared with people who didn’t use the web. This could be because people who do not feel welcome in their community spend more time online, said Przybylski. Further studies are needed to determine whether links between Internet use and well-being are causal or merely associations, he added.
The study comes at a time of discussion around the regulation of Internet and social-media use, especially among young people. “The study cannot contribute to the recent debate on whether or not social-media use is harmful, or whether or not smartphones should be banned at schools,” because the study was not designed to answer these questions, says Tobias Dienlin, who studies how social media affects well-being at the University of Vienna. “Different channels and uses of the Internet have vastly different effects on well-being outcomes,” he says.
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3,919 views 18 Dec 2020 Instructional video demonstrating how to use the Westmead PTA scale to measure the length of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) in patients with a traumatic brain injury.
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Attorney Gordon Johnson, Jr. of the Brain Injury Law Group explains why amnesia is the most important factor in TBI diagnosis. Attorney Johnson discuss retrograde amnesia and the types of questions that should be asked after a head injury. The concussion that has relatively little amnesia in all likelihood will probably not be that serious. Amnesia is the one thing that could be identified in the emergency room that rarely gets identified.
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4,725 views Premiered on 16 May 2022 Neuropsychiatric and Neurobehavioral Deficits (NBD) associated with Acquired Brain Injury: Frontal Lobe Injuries: Executive Dysfunction and Psychosocial Disorders are some of the most devastating problems associated with acquired brain injury and sometimes leave a patient without the ability to ever work or socialize. Treatments are mentioned, though options are few.
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This video is about the most common cause of the symptoms behind Traumatic Brain Injury: Diffuse Axonal Injury. In this video we take a look at the mechanism behind DAI, the pathophysiology of Diffuse Axonal Injury, How DAI severity is graded, and what prognosis is likely to be following DAI. We also talk about prospective treatment and what we can currently do today for DAI.
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Close your eyes and imagine a horse. What do you see? Statistically, you can probably picture the horse in your mind. The colour, the flowing tail. Tom Ebeyer can’t do that. Tom doesn’t have a mind’s eye, and for the first 20 years of his life he didn’t even know what a mind’s eye was. But now, Tom is finding other people like him, and they are finding belonging in their difference. Plus, they finally have a name for it: aphantasia
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As an extension of US imperial power, US tech corporations are eager to support Israeli atrocities.
Published On 12 May 2024
Since then, they have remained largely silent as the Israeli army has massacred close to 35,000 Palestinians, including more than 14,500 children, destroyed hundreds of schools and all universities and devastated Palestinian homes, healthcare infrastructure, mosques and heritage sites.
To execute this shocking level of destruction, the Israeli military has been assisted by artificial intelligence (AI) programs designed to produce targets with little human oversight. It is not clear to what extent foreign tech giants are directly involved in these projects, but we can say with certainty that they supply much of the core infrastructure required to build them, including advanced computer chips, software and cloud computing.
Amid this AI-assisted genocide, Big Tech in the United States is quietly continuing business as usual with Israel. Intel has announced a $25bn investment in a chip plant located in Israel, while Microsoft has launched a new Azure cloud region in the country.
None of this should come as a surprise. For decades, Silicon Valley has been supporting the Israeli apartheid regime, supplying the advanced technology and investment needed to power its economy and occupy Palestine.
Just as they did in 20th-century South Africa, today’s largest US-based technology corporations see an opportunity to profit from Israeli apartheid – a by-product of US-driven digital colonialism.
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Big Tech has been complicit in Israel’s occupation, dispossession and abuse of Palestinians in a variety of ways. Perhaps the most well-known one is its support for pervasive Israeli surveillance of the occupied Indigenous population.
The deal received considerable attention in the mainstream media after Google and Amazon workers demanded an end to the contract by launching the campaign No Tech for Apartheid. Anticipating this response, Google and Amazon signed a contract with Israel guaranteeing the continuation of services in the event of a boycott campaign. To date, they have held firm and continue to supply Israel with cloud computing services.
Details around Nimbus are concealed from the public, but Google employees have raised fears that it may be servicing Israel’s AI-infused military massacres. These concerns were amplified by reports that the Israeli army is using a new AI-powered system, such as “Lavender” and “The Gospel” to decide on targets for its bombardment of Gaza. According to one former Israeli intelligence official, The Gospel facilitates a “mass assassination factory” where “emphasis is on quantity, not quality”.
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Meanwhile, recent reports have revealed that Google is working directly with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, despite the ongoing genocide. The company also allows Israeli forces to use its Google Photos facial recognition service to scan the faces of Palestinians across Gaza for its dystopian “hit list”.
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Yet AI-assisted genocide is just the tip of the iceberg. For decades, American tech corporations and investors have been quietly aiding and abetting Israel’s system of digital apartheid. One of the most egregious examples is IBM, which was also the major supplier of computers for the South African apartheid regime’s national population registry and the upgraded passport system used to sort people by race and enforce segregation.
According to Who Profits, an independent research centre dedicated to exposing commercial involvement in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian land and population, “IBM designed and operates the Eitan System of the Israeli Population, Immigration and Border Authority [PIBA]… where personal information on the occupied Palestinian and Syrian people collected by Israel, is stored and managed.” The system contains information collected through Israel’s national population database and at the border and major checkpoints.
PIBA is also a part of Israel’s permit system which requires Palestinians over the age of 16 to carry “smart” cards, containing their photograph, address, fingerprints and other biometric identifiers. Much like in apartheid South Africa’s passport system, the cards double as permits which determine Palestinian rights to cross through Israeli checkpoints for any purpose, including work, family reunification, religious rituals or travelling abroad.
Microsoft for its part has supplied cloud computing space for the Israeli army’s “Almunasseq” app used for issuing permits to Palestinians in the occupied territories. In the past, it also held a stake in surveillance firm AnyVision (renamed Oosto) which provides real-time facial recognition services to Israeli authorities. Other companies, such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco and Dell, supply technology to service Israeli military and carceral authorities.
Apart from assisting the Israeli surveillance apparatus, Silicon Valley also provides critical support to the Israeli business sector, helping it maintain and develop a high-tech modern economy.
Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel, and it launched a chip development centre in Haifa. Nvidia, the trillion-dollar chip behemoth powering the AI revolution, has also announced it is expanding its already large R&D operations in Israel. The list goes on.
Venture capitalists are also critical to growing Israel’s local tech sector, which houses 10 percent of the world’s unicorns (companies worth at least $1bn), accounts for 14 percent of jobs and generates about 20 percent of the country’s GDP. Since 2019, $32bn has been invested in Israeli companies, with 51 percent led or co-led by US-based investors.
Social media companies have also lent a helping hand to Israeli apartheid and occupation. In 2022, an outside report commissioned by Meta found that Facebook and Instagram’s speech policies showed bias against Palestinians. These longstanding practices of blatant censorship against Palestinians are continuing into the present.
In December, Human Rights Watch reported that Meta continues to crack down on pro-Palestinian posts on Facebook and Instagram. Of 1,050 cases reviewed, 1,049 involved peaceful content supportive of Palestine that was censored or suppressed – despite allowing a substantial amount of pro-Palestine content – and one removal in support of Israel. The company is even considering censoring the word “Zionist”.
Big Tech censorship extends beyond everyday users. Political organisations like Hamas are banned by Big Social Media giants. Meanwhile, the Israeli military, government and other organs of Israeli state terror post freely, with widespread support.
It is no surprise that US-based Big Tech companies are partnering with and investing in Israel, supporting its genocidal and apartheid activities.
Big Tech corporations are modern-day East India companies; they are an extension of American imperial power. They colonise the global digital economy and reinforce the divide between the North and the South. As a result, the US profits from the ownership of digital infrastructure and knowledge and the extraction of resources from the Global South.
Digital colonialism is hardwired into Big Tech’s DNA. Its close relationship with the Israeli army is not only lucrative, but it serves the broader geopolitical interests of the American Empire, from which it benefits.
But just as the US and other Western governments are feeling the heat of legal action taken against them for the role they are playing in the genocide in Gaza, so are Western companies. US tech giants bear clear responsibility for what is happening in Palestine. They are on the wrong side of history, just as they were in apartheid South Africa. With enough popular pressure, Big Tech collaborators will find their day in court soon.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.
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With its aggression of Ukraine thwarted and internal instability looming, Moscow is giving more thought to the unthinkable: resorting to nuclear strikes.
As the NATO summit starts in Vilnius, just next door, in Belarus, Russian tactical nuclear weapons are being deployed, and there is uncertainty over the presence of the notorious Wagner Group militia units there.
So, as Western leaders such as United States President Joe Biden, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and all other NATO leaders discuss the war in Ukraine in the Baltics, Russia is further escalating the already hazardous situation by deploying nuclear hardware closer to NATO countries. The West must not lose its nerve. Military and political strength is critical. It cannot be debased by grandiose announcements and empty talk of retaliation and punishment.
When the Kremlin announced the intention to place such weapons in Belarus in April, its leader Alexander Lukashenko explained his consent for the drastic measure: “It is impossible to defeat a nuclear power. If the Russian leadership understands that the situation threatens to cause Russia’s disintegration, it will use the most terrible weapon. This cannot be allowed.” Mr. Lukashenko also claimed that the nuclear arms on its territory would help protect the people of Belarus, whom he considered threatened by the West.
That development is alarming. It strongly suggests that the Russian leadership no longer excludes the use of tactical nuclear weapons in the war it started in February 2022 and has had not much success in executing. Moscow may believe it necessary to show that its nuclear arsenal is no longer just deterrence.
Beijing appears increasingly nervous that the Russians might feel compelled to make a limited, small-yield nuclear strike, or a handful of strikes, probably against military targets. China is remaining on the Russian side in the Ukraine war, which it blames on what it calls Western assertiveness and NATO’s belligerent stance. After the International Criminal Court in the Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin in March 2023, Chinese leaders warned the organization to avoid “politicization” and “double standards.” The Chinese warnings on the use of nuclear weapons are addressed to Moscow but are also intended as a message to NATO.
The danger of a nuclear strike inches toward becoming a reality.
It also should be noted that Beijing insists that AUKUS (the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S. announced in 2021 for the Indo-Pacific region) is an attempt to contain China – similar to what Moscow claims is NATO’s role on its western border.
The recently printed opinions of Russian scholars suggest a changing sentiment in the Kremlin regarding the country’s nuclear muscle. In this context, it is not so relevant whether it is a sign of despair or a pure escalation strategy – the danger of a nuclear strike inches toward becoming a reality.
It appears that the Russian logic is as follows: as long as a nuclear strike does not hurt the U.S. directly, Washington might not retaliate tit-for-tat on Russian soil, concerned that, as the next step, the Kremlin might escalate to a nuclear Armageddon and bring the destruction in the U.S. Regardless of if this logic is correct or not, the circumstances are grave.
The situation is something of a Catch-22. The West must not back out and can afford to stay the course. Military strength on the NATO side is crucial.
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