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The Survey Asked a Different Question
For two decades, national surveys have shown that overall rates of teenage cannabis use in the United States have stayed relatively flat. That figure has been cited, constantly and reasonably, as evidence that legalisation has not affected young people. A study published in Addiction this week, led by Alisa Padon of the Public Health Institute with investigators at Kaiser Permanente, looked at something else. It tracked new diagnoses of...
Something in the Voice
Researchers analysing medical records from more than 833,000 American adults over fifty found something they had not gone looking for. People diagnosed with a voice disorder and no hearing loss had a 58 percent higher risk of developing cognitive impairment or dementia than matched controls. People with a voice disorder and hearing loss had more than double the risk. The comparison is what makes it striking. Hearing loss is currently considered...
They Bought a Bridge to Sell the Desert
Travel publishers produce a great many lists of overlooked Arizona towns, and buried in the current crop is the single best lesson about place-making that commerce has ever produced. In 1958 Robert McCulloch, a chainsaw and oil man, bought 3,353 acres on the east side of Lake Havasu and set about developing it. The problem was immediate and total: the land sat far from any centre of population, in a very hot, arid climate, and the estate agents...
Twelve Homes Out of Six Houses
Detroit and its partners have begun converting half a dozen derelict duplexes in the Islandview neighbourhood into twelve homes. The redevelopment runs to more than $3 million. Six of the units are market rate and six are designed for families earning between sixty and eighty percent of area median income. All twelve are three-bedroom, one-bath homes, getting new electrical, plumbing and mechanical systems, new roofs, windows and siding, and...
Two Thirds Of Coffee Consultants Publish A Link. The Rest Sell By Referral
The people paid to grow coffee businesses carry the second-smallest median audience in the entire study - 1,042 followers - and a third of them publish no link at all, nowhere for a curious buyer to go. Sit with that for a second, because it is a strange sentence. The specialists in growth are, on the platform where growth is most visible, near the bottom of the table. If a barista posted those numbers you might wonder. When a growth consultant...