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Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts

The bespectacled 53-year-old psychiatrist has written an influential book about the prescription-drug epidemic, delivered Ted Talks on America’s opioid crisis and appeared as a talking head in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma to discuss the drug that is social media. She’s a whiz on why we get hooked on things – and how we can enjoy pleasurable things in healthier doses. Her new book, Dopamine Nation, emphasises that we are now all addicts to a degree. She calls the smartphone the “modern-day hypodermic needle”: we turn to it for quick hits, seeking attention, validation and distraction with each swipe, like and tweet. More »

Lily Solomon, recent Toronto Waldorf graduate, to Represent Canada at World Mounted Games

There has been a lot of focus on Team Canada’s performances at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. But there is another international equestrian event where one young rider from Stouffville, Ontario, is going to try her best to win. Lily Solomon, 19, will be representing Canada at the World Individual Mounted Games Championships  (WIC) held at the David Broome Center in Chepstow, Wales, this year. The event draws over 200 riders for a series of games that involve high speed, high agility, and teamwork and trust between the rider, their horse and their teammates. More »

Let Children Experience Boredom

While Søren Kierkegaard warned, “Boredom is the root of all evil,” psychologists, neurologists and child development experts disagree. While we may fear a idle teen or toddler (and every age in between) discovering trouble through idleness, studies show letting a child experience boredom is better for their creativity and problem solving than handing them a screen or over scheduling their lives.    Experts agree: just let them be bored. No rescuing, no ideas, no schedule and no screens. Just let our children sit in the stew of inactivity. But why? Because boredom, according to Italian Human and Social Sciences researcher, Palmira Faraci, leads to one of three outcomes and two of them are beneficial. More »

Homegrown for Good

On a recent morning in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, Karin Jokela and her daughter, two-year-old Ani, are exploring the wildlife flitting and buzzing about their backyard produce garden. Ani inspects a bumble bee on a coneflower, one of many native flowering plants growing among Jokela’s vegetables, herbs and berries. “Is this the mama bee?” Ani asks, leaning closer—clearly intrigued by the busy visitor. Jokela, a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, nurtures her daughter’s appreciation for the wildlife drawn to their food garden. Among the most exciting visitors have been the endangered rusty patched bumble bee. More-common native insects include pollinating sweat and squash bees, pest-eating wasps and ambush bugs and soil-building tiger and ground beetles. More »

Hallel Rabin: I Refuse

As Waldorf alumna Hallel Rabin stood before the IDF conscientious objectors committee two weeks ago, the military body that decides whether or not she would be sent back to prison for refusing to serve in the army, she was asked the strangest of questions: “Would you agree to wear the army uniform if it were pink?” “I don’t have an issue with the color,” she responded, “I have an issue with wearing an army uniform — regardless of the army.” A conscientious objector, Rabin was still in military prison for refusing to serve due to the army’s occupation policies. On November 20, Rabin’s fourth stint in military prison came to an end; a day later the army officially gave her the discharge she had wanted. She served a total of 56 days behind bars. More »

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