Wednesday, 12 December, 2018

Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse.

Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse

Posted on Sunday, 22 January, 2017Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse.

This interesting long read is about teenagers coming out of substance abuse addiction. The approach is somewhat revolutionary and had been successfully applied in a test run in the USA, and a country-wide application in Iceland. It tracks the journey of Denver’s Metropolitan State University Psychology Professor Harvey Milkman, as he investigated addiction among teenagers and attempted to find a solution to help them recover from their dependence. The prior educational model of orientating teenagers and enforced withdrawal were not working, with high recidivism; teens did not respond positively nor were they interested in listening. His model was applied to a larger population group in Iceland, and in this article, he describes the development of his model and its successful outcome.

Read Article Here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/iceland-knows-how-to-stop-teen-substance-abuse-but-the-rest-of-the-world-isn-t-listening-a7526316.html

Arp 188 and the Tadpole's Tail.
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Faus Márquez (AAE). Distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop for this disrupted spiral galaxy Arp 188, the Tadpole Galaxy. It is 420 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Dragon (Draco), with its eye-catching tail of about 280 thousand light-years long, featuring massive, bright blue star clusters. It is theorised that a more compact intruder galaxy crossed in front of Arp 188 - from right to left in this view - and was slung around behind the Tadpole by their gravitational attraction, with tidal forces drawing out the spiral galaxy's stars, gas, and dust forming the spectacular tail. The intruder galaxy, 300,000 light-years behind the Tadpole, is seen through foreground spiral arms at the upper right.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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