Author: KnowledgeHippo

New Mexico’s attorney general, who last year sued Meta alleging it failed to protect children from sexual predators and made false claims about the safety of its platforms, announced Monday that his office will review how its paid subscription services company attract predators.Attorney General Raúl Torrez said he had formally requested documentation from the social media company about Facebook and Instagram memberships, which are often available on child accounts managed by parents.Instagram does not allow users under the age of 13, but accounts that focus entirely on children are allowed as long as they are managed by adults. The New…

Most of the plastic in your medicine cabinet is high-grade, medical-grade — and extremely difficult to dispose of safely, let alone recycle.Sorting equipment at standard recycling centers usually cannot handle small items and their wishful inclusion simply prolongs the sorting process which then increases recyclers’ costs without saving the plastic. Some home medical products, such as needles that have come into contact with bodily fluids, should not even be placed in the household trash.Governments and large drugstore chains offer some guidelines. For example, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has a map of collection boxes for safe drug…

In countries like the United States, he said, there is a “highly sexualized and puritanical culture, where sex is tightly controlled. Attitudes are generally much more conservative about what women do and the female body. In Europe this tends to happen less.”In a series of studies, Dr. West and his team found that being naked with others can increase self-confidence and life satisfaction. “If you go to a nudist event, you see a lot of normal people, people who aren’t atmospheric and who aren’t Beyoncé, and you realize that you don’t look bad compared to the average person,” said Dr.…

Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh of the Palestinian Authority, the body that administers part of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, submitted the resignation of his cabinet on Monday, according to the authority’s official news agency.The decision follows diplomatic efforts involving the United States and Arab states, including Saudi Arabia, to persuade the authority to overhaul itself in a way that would allow it to take over administration of Gaza after the war there ends.But it was unclear whether Mr Shtayyeh’s resignation would be enough to restore power or persuade Israel to let him rule Gaza. President Mahmoud Abbas, the authority’s most senior…

The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students in the future.The donor, Dr. Ruth Gottesman is a former professor at Einstein, where she studied learning disabilities, developed a screening test, and ran literacy programs. It is one of the largest philanthropic gifts to an educational institution in the United States and possibly the largest to a medical school.The fortune came from her late husband, David Gottesman, known as Sandy, who was a…

Jacob Rothschild, a wealthy financier, arts patron and philanthropist with close ties to Israel who broke with his family’s storied banking dynasty at a time of radical change in the world of high finance, has died. It was 87.His death was was announced on Monday from the Rothschild Foundation, a British charity of which he was chairman. He did not specify when and where he died or give a cause of death.Mr Rothschild – more formally the fourth Baron Rothschild – was descended from Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a coin dealer in the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt, who sent four of…

Ulysses, the American robotic spacecraft that landed on the moon last week, is likely to die in the next day or so.Communications with the rover remain limited and will end when sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels, Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that built and operates Odysseus, said Monday morning.The company also released images taken by the spacecraft as it descended, but none from the surface yet.Odysseus is the first US spacecraft to land on the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 and the first private craft to land successfully in one piece. However, during the landing on…

Peter Anthony Morgan, the lead singer of the reggae band Morgan Heritage, a Grammy-winning group formed by singer Denroy Morgan’s children that became known for its diverse influences and tight vocal harmonies, died Sunday.He was 46, the Associated Press reported. Mr Morgan’s family confirmed his death in a statement on the band’s social media platforms. The statement did not give his age or give a cause of death.Mr. Morgan, known as “Peetah”, started with Morgan Heritage seven of his brothers in 1994. The group later became a quintet.For some early albums, including “Protect Us Jah” (1997) and “Don’t Haffi Dread”…

The death of a 16-year-old non-binary student after a fight in an Oklahoma high school girls’ bathroom has drawn national attention and outrage from gay and transgender rights groups who say the student was bullied because of their gender identity.Nex Benedict, who often used the pronouns they and them and told relatives he didn’t think of himself as strictly male or female, died in early February, a day after fighting with three girls at Owasso High School. The details of what happened and what exactly caused Nex’s death were unclear, but in a police interview video released on February 24,…

On a rainy Saturday afternoon in central Tokyo, about 50 Chinese gathered in a gray, nondescript office that doubles as a bookstore. They came for a seminar about Qiu Jin, a Chinese feminist poet and revolutionary who was beheaded more than a century ago for plotting to overthrow the Qing dynasty.Like them, Ms. Qiu had lived as an immigrant in Japan. The title of the lecture, “Rebuilding China in Tokyo,” spoke as much about the aspirations of the people in the room as it did about Ms. Qiu’s life.Public debates like this used to be common in China’s big cities,…