From an all-time high in 2021 to a 3-year low in 2022, Amazon will ring in the New Year about half as large as it was a year ago. While the staggering $900 billion, 50% contraction in Amazon’s stock over the past 12-months is its first negative annual return since 2014, and its largest percentage drop since falling 79% during the dot-com bubble pop in 2000, the path to its present trough has been strewn with efforts and innovations aimed at righting the ship and restoring investor confidence. While the outcome of 2022 is clear, we revisit the journey that brough the Seattle-based ecommerce giant to where it is today — and perhaps will set it up for where it...
You might think that your spouse has an innate ability to remember your mother’s birthday or which Friday it is that your son is performing in his school play. And you probably know plenty of other parents who have partners in their lives who appear to possess some sort of organizational genius when it comes to family scheduling and household tasks. That’s because even enlightened, helpful, and considerate parents have blind spots when it comes to what they think they are responsible for in family life. This work is called emotional labor and is extra burdensome as it goes unseen. Too often, the labor falls squarely on the shoulders of one partner — usually mothers.Once, as an experiment, I stopped...
As I do at this time every year, I'm taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year. We're planning a little trip this fall to visit some family that we haven't seen since before the start of the pandemic. When we told our daughters that we're going to fly they got very excited about it. We've now been answering questions about flying seemingly nonstop for a few days. Those conversations prompted me to compile this list of resources for teaching and learning about the science...
Drawing inspiration from modern philosophers like Mark Manson and Ryan Holiday, I, for a long time, argued that negative emotions often have a positive value and an adaptive purpose. In other words, just because something feels bad doesn’t mean it is bad. For instance, anxiety and shame can compel us to improve our social skills. Anger can motivate us to stop hitting our kids and get into therapy. Guilt can push us to admit our fuckups and ultimately do the right thing. And sadness… Well, there’s a ton of new research I stumbled upon about its cognitive benefits, thanks to the advent of fMRI imaging and the proliferation of brain research. And in this article, I’ll share the gist of this research. So buckle the fuck in. Just know that...
by Brian Shilhavy Editor, Health Impact News ProPublica teamed up with NBC News to publish an investigation into families who lose their parental rights through the Child Welfare system and often never get their children back. The title of their report is: The “Death Penalty” of Child Welfare: In Six Months or Less, Some Parents Lose Their Kids Forever. The focus of their investigation was the length of time it took before the State terminated parental rights, based mainly on a 1997 law passed by President Bill Clinton, the Adoption and Safe Families Act. As we have published many times over the years on our MedicalKidnap.com website, this law released federal funding that actually encourages states to take children away...
