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As they reach adolescence, kids experience physical, psychological and social transitions that they may not expect or know how to handle a big challenge for them and their parents.
So how can you, the parent, make the ride less bumpy? Give open and honest communication a try. Showing your pre-teen and teens that it’s ok to come to you with questions that you’re willing to answer them honestly and openly will do wonders for both your relationship and for your kid’s future.
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Two-thirds of California prisoners who were offered a COVID-19 vaccine accepted at least one dose, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. We found that many incarcerated people in California prisons were willing to be vaccinated for COVID-19, said Elizabeth Chin, the lead author of the study and a PhD candidate in biomedical data science. This is an encouraging sign for other states at an early stage of rolling out vaccination programs in their prisons and jails.
The researchers also found that nearly half of those who initially turned down a COVID-19 vaccine accepted it when it was offered to them again. The finding is an important indication that vaccine hesitancy is not necessarily fixed.
Call it mindwriting.
The combination of mental effort and state-of-the-art technology have allowed a man with immobilized limbs to communicate by text at speeds rivaling those achieved by his able-bodied peers texting on a smartphone.
Stanford University investigators have coupled artificial-intelligence software with a device, called a brain-computer interface, implanted in the brain of a man with full-body paralysis. The software was able to decode information from the BCI to quickly convert the man s thoughts about handwriting into text on a computer screen.
The man was able to write using this approach more than twice as quickly as he could using a previous method developed by the Stanford researchers, who reported those findings in 2017 in the journal eLife.