- Annual research review on self-harm in youth, via Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry: lifetime prevalence is 20 percent.
- Mary Beard’s defense of classics: “Rather than simple answers to complicated questions, she offers yet more complicated questions. This is, in fact, just what she says classics itself does.”
- Kidfluencing: “…the top accounts charge as much as $200,000 per sponsored post, bringing in between $8m and $10m a year.”
- The annoyance economy: $165bn a year in the US alone.
- John Burn-Murdoch on young adult earnings: the aspiration gap.
- AI-enabled cyber attacks were up 89 percent in 2025 vs. 2024.
- Common characteristics of effective school climate interventions: external support from beyond the school system for implementation of change; a focus on reviewing and revising existing policies and practices to make contextually driven changes, rather than just ‘adding on’ new interventions; revising disciplinary policies, and promoting alternative forms of discipline beyond punishment; positive relationship building between students and between staff and students, emphasis on preventing interpersonal violence, including bullying; mechanisms for young people to feedback on current assets and problems, and into decision-making regarding priorities for change and their implementation; classroom curriculum components or skills workshops for young people.
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