The average US woman weighs as much as the average 1960s man The average American woman weighs 166.2 pounds, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As reddit recently pointed out, that's almost exactly as much as the average American man weighed in the early 1960s. Men, you're not looking too hot in this scenario either. Wonkbook newsletter Your daily policy cheat sheet from Wonkblog. Please provide a valid email address. Overall weight gain since 1960 is slightly greater for women (18.5 percent) than for men (17.6 percent). But story is mostly one of growing girth, and it basically boils down to three factors: we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much. The average American is 33 pounds heavier than the average Frenchman, 40 pounds heavier than the average Japanese citizen, and a whopping 70 pounds heavier than the average citizen of Bangladesh. Together, the world's adult human beings added up to 287 million tons of biomass in 2005, according to the BMC Public Health study.
Smartphones Are Making Generation Z More Isolated and Depressed Today’s teenagers are more sheltered and less independent than previous generations, and the shifts correspond with the mainstreaming of smartphones around 2012. Instead of going out with friends and looking for every chance to get away from their parents, the post-Millennial generation is staying in and Snapchatting—and it’s making them less happy. The statistics, as outlined by social psychologist Jean Twenge for The Atlantic, are alarming. Today’s twelfth graders spend less time out of the house without their parents than eighth graders did in 2009. Today’s teenagers are also working less than their predecessors. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. Of course, many parents might heave a sigh of relief that their kids aren’t out carousing, and some side-effects, like a drop in teen pregnancies, are positive. Twenge says the evidence linking the problem to smartphones “could not be clearer.” The consequences for these kids, Twenge says, will be long-term.
“I Feel Forgotten”: A Decade of Struggle in Rural Ohio In the spring of 2009, I travelled to rural Ohio to meet the people my friend Matt Eich had been photographing. It was an uneasy time in America. Depression-style tent cities were springing up across the country. The foreclosure crisis was looming. As Matt and I drove along Route 13, a highway that snakes through the Appalachian hills in the southeastern part of the state, the sense of dissolution deepened. Matt, a Virginia native who was studying photography as an undergraduate at Ohio University, in Athens, was interested in what was left. Many of his photographs from the region, which are collected in the new book “Carry Me Ohio,” show scenes of poverty and disaffection. If Matt had a muse, it was Jessie, an unemployed ironworker, party animal, and backcountry poet. Matt, who now lives with his wife and two kids in Charlottesville, Virginia, returns to visit the Sellerses a few times each year, and has continued to take their pictures.
The Kids Are Not Alright - Anxiety & Depression at All Time High - D. Knight Marketing & Consulting Group Last week all the press was covering the presidential election wall-to-wall. I was both surprised and encouraged that TIME Magazine chose not to report on the upcoming election but instead utilized prime real estate, their front cover to raise the awareness of Adolescent Anxiety and Depression. That move says a lot about the importance of addressing what I like to call a “silent epidemic” in our nation. In a nutshell “The Kids Are Not Alright.” At D. Anxiety and depression in high school kids have been on the rise since 2012. Despite the dramatic rise in teen anxiety and depression, what is more, troubling is the fact that there hasn’t been a corresponding increase in mental health treatment for teens especially in schools where they spend the majority of their time and where teachers bay be able to notice signs that maybe the parents are not seeing. There are many theories about why teens are so stressed out. Social media has also contributed to the anxiety and depression. Like this:
After Slavery, Searching For Loved Ones In Wanted Ads In 1886, Nancy Jones placed an ad seeking her son, Allen, in an ad in The Christian Recorder of Philadelphia. Courtesy of Last Seen hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Last Seen In the waning years of the Civil War, advertisements like this began appearing in newspapers around the country: "INFORMATION WANTED By a mother concerning her children." More than 900 of these "Information Wanted" notices — placed by African-Americans separated from family members by war, slavery and emancipation — have been digitized in a project called Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, a collaboration between Villanova University's graduate history program and Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Margaret Jerrido, archivist at Mother Bethel, is a partner in the project, which is believed to be the first of its kind. Evans Green searches for his mother, Phillis, through an ad placed in The Black Republican of New Orleans in 1865.
How anxiety became a modern epidemic greater than depression Liberals Aren’t Like the Rest, or So They Think Liberals tend to underestimate the amount of actual agreement among those who share their ideology, while conservatives tend to overestimate intra-group agreement, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. These findings may help to explain differences in how political groups and movements, like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, gain traction on the national stage: “The Tea Party movement developed a succinct set of goals in its incipient stages and effectively mobilized its members toward large-scale social change quite quickly,” says psychological scientist Chadly Stern of New York University. Stern, with co-authors Tessa West and Peter Schmitt, recruited almost 300 hundred participants to complete an online survey. Liberals showed what the researchers call “truly false uniqueness,” perceiving their beliefs as more divergent from the beliefs of other liberals than they actually were.
How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media? The amount of time people spend on social media is constantly increasing. Teens now spend up to nine hours a day on social platforms, while 30% of all time spent online is now allocated to social media interaction. And the majority of that time is on mobile - 60% of social media time spent is facilitated by a mobile device. The social media platforms themselves are evolving their tools and options to further attract and engage new audiences (e.g. advent of live-streaming features and 360-degree photos/videos). To give marketers a better understanding of the social media landscape, we calculated the time spent across the most popular social media platforms, projected what it means within a consumer's lifetime, and compared these figures against common daily activities and examples of what can be accomplished with an equivalent amount of time (e.g. walk the Great Wall of China 3.5x, and run 10K+ marathons). Broken down, time spent on social media differs across each platform.
Most Surprising Things About America, According To Indian International Student Glitter boobs are the hot new beauty trend taking over Glastonbury The weekend has arrived. Glastonbury festival is now at full throttle. Last night, Radiohead performed to chants of Jeremy Corbyn, there's avocado toast everywhere and Ed Balls is wearing combat shorts. David Beckham even planted a tree. There are also glitter boobs. It's a niche beauty trend that has gone more mainstream this year. Glitter boobs, or 'disco t*ts' to some, are easily created, but do take a little time. This cheerful nudist vibe taking off at Glastonbury 2017, probably due to the exceptionally good weather, and the fact the same look proved popular at California’s Coachella festival earlier in the year. Men and women are glittering up their nipples Fashion house Yves Saint Laurent featured glittering breasts in its SS17 show. While some people go it alone, many at Glastonbury are using The Gypsy Shrine, which is one of the companies promoting the trend and helping people get all shiny. Read More Glastonbury 2017 Set the gems with hair spray
Saint Laurent unveils 'nip slip' dress – a glittery mono-boob outfit for the brave Saint Laurent's new designer Anthony Vaccarello unveiled his new collection at Paris Fashion Week - but it was a singular glitter-adorned nip-slip that got everyone talking. He one-upped the autumn/winter fashion trend for glittering clothes and accessories by featuring a model with her left breast exposed and her nipple covered in heart-shaped glitter. For his spring/summer 2017 debut for the French house, Anthony Vaccarello took on full-frontal fashion with a collection teeming in sheer tops worn sans bra, and while many models sauntered down the Saint Laurent runway with their nipples on full display it was the glitter-covered nipple that made headlines. Model Binx Walton wears a strapless, leather dress with an asymmetric fold that left her breast exposed While other models sauntered down the runway with their nipples on full display it was a singular glitter adorned nip-slip that made headlines (Getty Images) Reuse content
Music Festivals and the Politics of Participation (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series): Amazon.co.uk: Roxy Robinson: 9781409457763: Books Whatever this book is about it is not about music festivals. You will struggle to find a definition of a music festival. You will fail to find any quantification treatment of one of the most interesting social phenomena of the last couple of decades. What you will find is a review of what social scientists have written about the application of theories about participation. I was going to write "what social scientists think about..." but stopped when I realised that the book contains no evidence of thought. Perhaps if you're a sociologist you might find this book interesting, but I bought it because I help organise an Eisteddfod, an ancient type of music festival not included in the book. I doubt that the students attending the Leeds Mechanics Institute which was one of the forebears of the author's university would have put up with this type of blather.