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Since the Golden Gate Bridge was built in San Francisco in 1937, more than 1,600 people have jumped off it and died. The bridge is one of many sites around the world that are considered suicide hot spots because people use them frequently to take their own lives.
A new analysis suggests that several different types of interventions could help reduce the risk of suicide at these hot spots, typically bridges, cliffs or other high places.
Most of us don’t have the luxury of starting our days with the easy-going, sunrise-watching, coffee-sipping routines depicted in commercials. It’s usually more about hoping the caffeine kicks in quickly as you juggle getting yourself ready with responding to the demands of your household and buzzing phone. That said, like we’re told during inflight safety demonstrations, it’s important to put on your oxygen mask before helping others. That’s why I recommend five minutes of yoga every morning to set your body and mind right — before doing anything else.
Remember when Target announced it was phasing out gender-based signs in some departments?
Despite some criticism, the big box retailer has been quick to act on its pledge.
Stores across the country have removed references to “boys” and “girls” in toy, home and entertainment aisles and traded in pink and blue shelves for a neutral, wood-grain look. Instead, toys are sorted by categories — dolls, action figures, building sets, etc. — while books and movies are sorted by genre and bedding is just… bedding. (For now, Target’s website is a different matter.)
Peanut butter and jelly.
Rapper Kanye West has managed to offend some folks during New York Fashion Week.
Eighty-seven of 91 former NFL players who donated their brains to science after death tested positive for a brain disease that is believed to be linked with repeated head trauma and concussions, researchers said.
Congratulations, #Emmys! Social media loved you!
The company has been found guilty of forcing Russian vendors to preload Android smartphone devices with Google apps and banning them from installing services offered by rival search engines.
Hard to believe it has been 30 years since we were first told “our princess is in another castle.”
Research on prosthetic hands has come a long way, but most of it has focused on improving the way the body controls the device.
