Ted Alcorn
Writer at Freelance
Reporting on health + justice in @NYtimes, @NMinDepth, more. Teaching @columbiamsph & @NYUWagner. Ex-@Everytown, @NYCMayorsOffice. Bi-Nuevo: New Mexican in NYC.
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1 week ago |
orlandosentinel.com | Patricia Mazzei |Ted Alcorn
Florida's brief attempt to let high school students sleep longer began two years ago when one of the state's most powerful politicians listened to an audiobook. The book, "Why We Sleep," argues that sufficient sleep is fundamental to nearly every aspect of human functioning. Paul Renner, then the Republican speaker of the state House, said reading it turned him into a "sleep evangelist"; he started tracking his own sleep and pressing the book on other lawmakers.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Patricia Mazzei |Ted Alcorn
Florida’s brief attempt to let high school students sleep longer began two years ago when one of the state’s most powerful politicians listened to an audiobook. The book, “Why We Sleep,” argues that sufficient sleep is fundamental to nearly every aspect of human functioning. Paul Renner, then the Republican speaker of the state House, said reading it turned him into a “sleep evangelist”; he started tracking his own sleep and pressing the book on other lawmakers.
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1 week ago |
sun-sentinel.com | Ted Alcorn |Patricia Mazzei
Florida’s brief attempt to let high school students sleep longer began two years ago when one of the state’s most powerful politicians listened to an audiobook. The book, “Why We Sleep,” argues that sufficient sleep is fundamental to nearly every aspect of human functioning. Paul Renner, then the Republican speaker of the state House, said reading it turned him into a “sleep evangelist”; he started tracking his own sleep and pressing the book on other lawmakers.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Ted Alcorn |Patricia Mazzei
Florida’s brief attempt to let high school students sleep longer began two years ago when one of the state’s most powerful politicians listened to an audiobook. The book, “Why We Sleep,” argues that sufficient sleep is fundamental to nearly every aspect of human functioning. Paul Renner, then the Republican speaker of the State House, said reading it turned him into a “sleep evangelist”; he started tracking his own sleep and pressing the book on other lawmakers.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Ted Alcorn |Alessandro Falco
Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones. Rice harvesting in Nickerie, Suriname, where paraquat - a pesticide widely available in rural areas - is frequently used in self-poisoning. Pesticides are a leading means of suicide. The tiny nation of Suriname is working to restrict access to one of the most common and dangerous ones.
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RT @GabbyGiffords: I’m devastated to learn that my friend, Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, were ki…
RT @albrgr: New in the NYT: pesticides like paraquat cause >100k deaths to suicide per year, and means restriction works - following bans i…
For the @nytimes I wrote about an insidious public health problem — household access to highly lethal pesticides, which are, shockingly, a leading means of suicide around the world — and the opportunity to save lives by outlawing them. https://t.co/zLf5UmcWOy
