Many airlines are now going paperless. If you want to check in for a flight, particularly an international flight, you will need to check in and have your ticket information scanned off your smartphone. So airlines are now in the business of making smartphones mandatory. Here’s more from Computing Forever.
“If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone with social media, they came out different than human beings before” says Jonathan Haidt, author of the bestseller The Anxious Generation.
Kids are addicted to smartphones. Childhood is now phone-based instead of play-based, resulting in anxious and depressed kids.
“They know that life would be better if they didn’t spend five or six hours a day on social media. They know that, but they can’t help it” says Haidt.
Not all researcher agree. I challenge Haidt with the criticism.
Haidt responds in our full interview, and lays out his best advice to protect kids from smartphones. Here’s more from John Stossel.
Do smartphones and social media wreck kids’ lives?
“Anxiety, depression, self-harm levels were pretty stable from the late 90s through 2010,” says psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation. “All of a sudden, the rates go up. Way up.”
But are phones the cause? I examine both sides in my newest video. Here’s more from John Stossel.
More than 2.34 billion tons of rare earth minerals have been discovered in the vicinity of Halleck Creek, north of Laramie, in the state of Wyoming. The minerals include oxides of neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, dysprosium and terbium.
Previously, Communist China was thought to have a virtual monopoly on these rare earth compounds, but the U.S. mother lode is at least 20 times larger than what the Chinese can tap. These compounds are used in smartphones, electric vehicles, airplanes and for other industrial purposes.
The Edge of Wonder‘s Rob Counts touches upon the implications of the discovery here, while also delving into Chernobyl’s anticancer wolves. Also on tap: Katy Perry gets a miraculous or angelic sign from “the beyond” after her manager Martin Kirkup (who also managed Counting Crows, Tracy Chapman, the Go-Go’s, Adam Lambert, and more) passes away. There’s also another look at the 2024 Super Bowl and how it made some unexpected history.
Bemoaning the Totalitarian Technological State. What will become of those who can’t use smartphones? And what is the fate of those who can’t stop? Here’s more from Amazing Polly.
Apple and Google are threatening to remove Twitter from their App stores. If they do that, says Elon Musk, he will simply speed the development of his own Pi phones so users can bypass Google and Apple, while still accessing Twitter.
The Pi phones, after all, are earmarked to be the next generation of smartphones. Twitter clawback could be their greatest fear.
Also in this edition: Batman Vs. Trump. More from And We Know.
While oil has been the motivating factor for US-led wars in the Middle East, many are wondering what might be behind their belligerence towards Pyongyang. North Korea may not have oil, but the estimated value of their mineral deposits is a staggering $6 trillion, according to the South Korean government.
North Korea is sitting on world’s second-largest supply of rare earth metals, which are essential for modern electronics like laptops, smartphones, solar electricity panels and precision missiles. The United States, along with their allies Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, three major producers of sophisticated electronics, are surely interested in this vital supply of natural resources.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This video has disappeared from YouTube, apparently censored like so many other videos. In its absence, here’s a BitChute video capturing the emotions and expressions of a North Korean woman eating a banana for the first time in her life.)
