Its ‘Digital Heroin: How Screens Turn Kids Into Psychotic Junkies

‘Thats rightyour kids brain on Minecraft looks like a brain on drugs.’ By Dr. Nicholas Kardaras Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. I thought, Why not let him get a jump on things? she told me during a therapy session. Johns school had begun using the

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This is the most dangerous time for our planet | Stephen Hawking

We cant go on ignoring inequality, because we have the means to destroy our world but not to escape it As a theoretical physicist based in Cambridge, I have lived my life in an extraordinarily privileged bubble. Cambridge is an unusual town, centred around one of the worlds great universities.

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