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Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s efforts to defeat Biden’s Build Back Better agenda proved victorious today as news spread that the Child Tax Credit would not be extended into 2022. With this defeat, Republicans perpetuate the political back-and-forth our nation finds itself tangled in. This time, the Republican’s partisanship aims to aid the rise of inflation to use that as a tool against Biden in the midterm elections. Per the New York Times, end of the CTC will bring to millions of middle-class families across America suffering from the continued effects of Covid 19 on the economy. The partisanship our…

Last night, watching the Ravens v. Raiders football game I noticed the message the Raiders had fittingly written on their end zone: End Racism. Which made me wonder, what will it take to do so? Fighting between us because we are different has been haunting mankind since the beginning of time. We have fought each other, and continue to do so to this day, because of racial differences but also because of differences in religion, differences in political views, differences in economic resources. Heck, if we look at fighting in general, even within our own families we fight about differences…

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Like Instagram’s Nametags, which worked with a QR code to be scanned by viewers in order to get more information on products identified in a photo, Snapchat’s new Scan camera feature quenches our mind’s need for thinking. The feature is an impressive AI technology that has been years in the making as Snapchat has been continuously adding several identification app partners to increase the array of products Scan can recognize, including dogs. When activated, the Scan makes several screens pop up displaying information about a particular product in the photo you are looking at as well as links to where…

We all know the importance of sleep for our basic functioning in life, yet most of us can’t put our screens away at night when we know it’s past our planned bedtime. Sleep cycles are hindered, roommates get angry, necks stiffened in the process of getting just one more swipe in. How Modern Medicine Explains Your Sleep Procrastination Sleep experts attribute this to various causes including genetics, lack of self-regulation, maybe even some FOMO going on. These experts offer a variety of sleep routines involving winding-down schedules as the go to solution. If the problem is that you are wanting…

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot about the epidemic of anxiety in America. It is affecting people of all ages and the factors contributing to anxiety are many. Still, the root cause of the affliction remains a mystery, specially when it comes to explaining anxiety in teens. The addiction to electronics remains a top concern. We would all be wise to put our phones down and pick up a book or play a table game every once in a while, adults and teens alike. But, after getting through another of my customary abstentions from coffee for a week — note,…