Gastrointestinal cancers, which include colorectal, stomach and pancreatic cancer, are rising dramatically in younger adults, though doctors aren’t fully sure why. https://t.co/dszhtg87T8
Colorectal cancer rates in younger people have surged in recent years.
More troubling, most cases diagnosed are at an advanced stage and researchers aren’t sure what’s causing the cancers. https://t.co/47grdmYp88
Accommodating depression: A student struggling with major depression fell off the face of the earth for a few weeks. They resurfaced and asked if they could make up the work they missed. I said of course. They were confused. "Will I get points marked off?" 1/5
It’s #OverdoseAwarenessDay. As someone who started shooting heroin at 13, I have something to say to parents (a thread 🧵).
It’s never too early to start talking with your kids about drugs. The first time I took an opiate I was 8, heroin at 13. And no one suspected a thing.
It was the Summer of 1996, and I was 9 years-old.
My mother, her third husband, my sister, and me were living in a trailer park many miles outside Fort Hood, Texas.
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Charlie Munger spent a lifetime studying why humans make horrible decisions so you don't have to.
If you want to avoid bad decisions, here are 25 of the most powerful psychological tendencies known to man 🧵
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a book everyone should read.
But, only 7% of people who’ve started it ever made it to the end.
21 insights from the best book you never finished: