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June 23, 2018
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Jun

Recommended Article – The Dangers of Distracted Parenting

June 23, 2018
When it comes to children’s development, parents should worry less about kids’ screen time—and more about their own. Erika Christakis July/August 2018 Issue  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/the-dangers-of-distracted-parenting/561752/ Excerpts: Smartphones have by now been implicated in so many crummy outcomes—car fatalities, sleep disturbances, empathy loss, relationship problems, failure to notice a clown on a unicycle—that it almost seems easier...
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Jun

Rwanda government outlaws the use of cell phones in schools.

June 23, 2018
Article in The New Times, Rwanda’s Leading Daily newspaper  http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/government-outlaws-use-cell-phones-schools Elisée Mpirwa Published : June 15, 2018 Pupils in class at Rusheshe Primary School in Masaka, Kicukiro District. File The Ministry of Education says that no more primary and secondary schools students will be allowed to own or use a mobile telephone at school, citing...
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Jun

The Emerging Link between Wireless and Autism

June 23, 2018
Credit for this post: Clear Light Ventures http://www.clearlightventures.com/blog/2015/9/11/the-emerging-link-between-wireless-and-autism Wireless radiation and chemical toxins are now being studied to determine if they play a role in rising autism rates. The concept that autism is a permanent genetic condition came into question after a study of identical twins at Stanford in 2011. The researchers concluded that genetics alone...
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Jun

Group of concerned Hempfield residents sues school district over cell towers

June 23, 2018
ALEX GELI | Staff Writer https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/group-of-concerned-hempfield-residents-sues-school-district-over-cell-towers/article_002f897c-765b-11e8-9b77-77cd2ab3d5ed.html A “no trespassing” sign on the Rohrerstown cell tower construction site displays warnings for potential radiofrequency radiation.  A yearlong battle over cellphone towers on school district property in East Hempfield Township has been revitalized thanks to a lawsuit filed against Hempfield School District. Hempfield Citizens for Safe Schools Inc.,...
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