Articles we’re reading for March 10th through March 14th

By Adam McLane on March 17 2009

Fresh research for March 10th through March 14th to keep you informed on all the latest in youth culture. (And other stuff we think you should know.)

• Teen riding 1,500 miles to raise money for disease research | stephen, collins, disease – News – ENCToday – Stephen, 17, is spending his two-week spring break peddling his bike 1,500 miles from Jacksonville, Fla., back to Holliston, Mass., to raise money for the Amyloidosis Foundation and raise awareness for this rare disease that struck his mother, Chris, in 2008.
• Teen Conflicts Linked To Potential Risk For Adult Cardiovascular Disease – stressful times from the teenage years exact a physical toll that could have implications for health during adulthood.
• Survey: Less Than 1 Percent of Young Adults Hold Biblical Worldview| Christianpost.com – If you like statistics, this is a good one.
• Columbia J-School’s Existential Crisis — Daily Intel — New York News Blog — New York Magazine – The media bloodbath hasn’t made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School.
• Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston Split Up: CONFIRMED – Levi Johnston and Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin, have broken off their engagement.
• Hyperactivity helps ADHD boys with memorization – Ars Technica – psychology professor Mark Rapport and his fellow researchers report in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology that it may actually help children with ADHD concentrate on the task at hand.
• Spending Bill Reduces Cost of Birth Control Pills on Campus – The Paper Trail (usnews.com) – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate passed the “Affordable Birth Control Act,” which would restore affordable access to birth control pills from college clinics and community health centers.
• IBM and Marist Survey Shows U.S. College Students Want Technology Skills to Compete for Jobs – MSNBC Wire Services – msnbc.com – Amid concerns that the economic downturn could impact their career plans, eight in 10 U.S. college students see a growing need for more IT professionals as technology advances
• The Associated Press: More bad news on campus: Scholarships drying up – A survey from the nonprofit Commonfund Institute of Wilton, Conn., found that college endowments across the nation lost an average of 24 percent of their value during the six months preceding Dec. 31, 2008
• Children from active homes more likely to be active teens – Glad to see the United States isn’t the only one blowing money on obvious research!
• New rules of road for teen drivers – Commercial Dispatch – Under current law, teens can get a driver’s license after turning 15 and having a learner’s permit for six months. However, state lawmakers want to increase that to one year.
• Cocooning Millennials Plan Drastic Spending Cuts – MarketingVOX – Two-thirds of US Millennials say they are somewhat or very concerned about their personal finances and plan to make drastic cuts across spending categories.
• Daughters.com – New site specifically about raising girls. (non-religious)
• The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist – THAT Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of human social groups is an obvious hypothesis, given that they reduce a lot of the friction and cost involved in keeping in touch with other people.
• Mixed Marriages Decline as Immigrants’ Children Seek Similar Partners – washingtonpost.com – Sociologists and demographers are just beginning to study how the children of immigrants who have flowed into the country in recent years will date and marry.

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