Three sisters — Brianna Lannie, Lauren Jackson, and Danielle Jackson, have opened The Hair Hive, Buffalo’s first Black woman-owned beauty supply store!
These powerful sisters from Buffalo’s East Side came together to create a space that caters specifically to Black hair and beauty needs, filling a major gap in their community.
This is beautiful Black sisterhood, entrepreneurship, and community investment in action. Family moving together and building for us! 🙌🏾🔥
BSc -Agribusiness Management (2.6/4)
MBA -Finance major in Financial Engineering (3.86/4)
MPA -Political Economics major in International Relations and Public Policy (3.99/4)
MRes -majoring in Energy Politics (3.9/4)
Every Postgrad under fully sponsored scholarships.
-DUT en Comptabilité
-Licence en Économie et gestion d'entreprise
-Licence en Gestion financière et comptable
-MBA Ingénierie financière
-RNCP Niveau 7 Expert des marchés et instruments financiers
-Certification AMF
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
My journey (hopefully it inspires someone):
🇨🇲🎓 2009 — Bachelor's Degree in Special Needs Education
❌ 2009–2014 — Five years of scholarship rejections
🇯🇵 2014 — MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship
🇯🇵🎓 2016 — Master's Degree
🇺🇸 2016 — Mandela Washington Fellowship
🌍 2017 — YALA Fellowship
🇯🇵🎓 2018 — Master's Degree in International Public Policy
🇺🇸 2021 — Clinton Global Initiative Fellowship
🇯🇵🎓 2023 — PhD in International Public Policy
Bsc Electrical/Electronics Engineering, First Class honors
MSc Computer Science and Engineering, Distinction
PhD Computer Science and Engineering (in progress)
CSTEP Research mentor
Fully funded plus I’m Twenty-fine🌹
B.S: Environmental Science
M.S: Earth and Atmospheric Science
MPhil: Earth and Environmental Science
PhD: Earth and Environmental Science (wrote a book chapter while finishing up)
Bonus: published all chapters of my dissertation within the first year of defending/graduating
The President of the United States is promoting his own crypto coin at a UFC fight being held in front of the White House. That is a real sentence. What are we doing.
Two brothers from Richmond were the first in their family to go to college, and they both became doctors. Now Drs. Travan and Travis Jasper are home, leading the emergency room at the hospital that serves the same community that raised them. Think about the child in Richmond who walks into that ER and sees these two men running it. That child just saw their own future. Congratulations, Doctors. Keep leading. We are proud of you.
Source: Yi-Jin Yu, ABC News
I fear we have a cruel month ahead of us: the future of campaign finance law, the definition of Election Day, the fate of birthright citizenship. While I remain hopeful, I am prepared for democracy to leave this month weaker than it entered. https://t.co/WKWGn1CznF
I remember noticing how chill Oswald was. It was so relaxing like asmr. We still need low stimulation shows. Stuff is just too noisy and overlapping these days