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TikTok says new 'wellness' features can help build healthy habits. Should we be using apps for that?

TikTok has introduced new features to build healthy habits for teens, including breathing exercises, soothing sounds and an affirmation journal. But while TikTok is pitching its new wellness features as a win for teens’ mental health, critics fear it’s a further push toward tech apps monopolizing our downtime to collect ever more data. Source link

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He spent his career documenting collective trauma. Grassy Narrows was one of his toughest cases

Kai T. Erikson, Yale sociologist who dedicated his career to documenting the collective trauma faced by communities in the wake of unimaginable disasters, has died at the age of 94. In the late ’70s, he spent time collecting the stories of people on Grassy Narrows First Nation suffering from the impacts of mercury poisoning. Source […]