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Quit smoking on Monday, not New Year’s Day, experts suggest

Quit smoking on Monday, not New Year’s Day, experts suggest

f-f-f-f /shutterstock.com Like many New Year’s resolutions, a once-a-year vow to quit smoking is rarely effective. Most people relapse within a month, according to the nonprofit health organization Monday Campaigns. If you’re like millions of people around the globe, quitting smoking tops your New Year’s resolution list. But experts say that rather than trying to quit once a year, which ...

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Tablets for tots? Some experts worry about screentime

Tablets for tots? Some experts worry about screentime

Tablet computers are so easy to use that even a 3-year-old can master them. And that has some pediatricians and other health experts worried. Since navigating a tablet generally doesn’t require the ability to type or read, children as young as toddlers can quickly learn how to stream movies, scroll through family photos or play simple games. That ease-of-use makes ...

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Being ‘consciously asleep’ common: experts

Being ‘consciously asleep’ common: experts

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The conductor at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...

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Being ‘consciously asleep’ is common and — as is possible in Metro-North crash — dangerous: experts

Being ‘consciously asleep’ is common and — as is possible in Metro-North crash — dangerous: experts

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The engineer at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...

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Rock music began at Stonehenge, claim experts

Rock music began at Stonehenge, claim experts

Experts have claimed musical properties to Stonehenge [GETTY] They have found that the bluestones which form an outer ring of the 5,000-year-old monument have musical properties. They believe this could help the answer  mystery of why Stone Age man went to the enormous trouble of transporting them 150 miles from Pembrokeshire’s Preseli Hills  to Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. A team ...

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