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Help kids navigate the social media roller coaster
Life, James Hein, Published on 31/01/2018
» A study has come out recently, confirming what we already know. Children spending more than an hour a day engaged in social media can make them less happy. Take something like Facebook for example. You post something, people read it then they give it a like and sometimes make a comment. Now imagine you are a young impressionable child somewhere under 18. You post something and get 50 likes. Sometime later you post something else and get 65 likes and feel better. Then the third time you only get five likes and some comments about how lame it was. Now you feel worse. Multiply this by a few hundred times and the emotional roller coaster can have someone with a developing emotional platform spiralling into their first depression.
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The tragedy of US 'victory' over Islamic State in Iraq
News, Published on 31/01/2018
» Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory over the Islamic State (IS) on Dec 9, 2017. And while there will still be some fighting, the real war is over. Yet there were no parades, no statues pulled down, no "Mission Accomplished" moments. An event that might a few years ago have set American front pages atwitter wasn't even worth a presidential tweet.
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An academic shift right will hurt society
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 31/01/2018
» Part of me wishes the military government had been behind the recent ban on the publication of the results of a poll by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida). Such state intimidation is not a good thing. But at least it's better than the reality -- self-censorship imposed by Nida's president or, put it another way, his preferred choice to not let public opinion influence an ongoing probe against one of the regime's top men.
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'Davos men' face crisis of confidence
News, Published on 31/01/2018
» The World Economic Forum's annual flagship meeting in Davos has always been an easy target for caricature, even ridicule. Over the years, it has gained a somewhat deserved reputation for gathering a bunch of global elites in a posh Swiss resort for a week's worth of self-congratulatory speeches -- a sort of affirmation that the elite's values and successes epitomise the triumph of democracy and capitalism.
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Governing top down
News, Editorial, Published on 31/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha first uttered the phrase regarding "Thai-ness" less than three weeks ago. In that short period of time, his programme called Thai Niyom has not just come into being. Now the Thai-ness project is already fully organised, completely staffed and apparently working, down to the village level. It even has acquired an adjective and now is "sustainable Thai-ness" or Thai Niyom Yangyuen. For these reasons, critics already are attacking it as yet another facet of the military's plan for an indefinite stay in power.
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Slower than a speeding bullet train? No way
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 31/01/2018
» Pending agreement from Japan, a plan to run bullet trains along a 670km stretch of track from Bangkok to Chiang Mai may be downgraded so the trains run at top speeds of 180-200kph instead of the originally planned 300kph.
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