Innholdsfortegnelse for January 07-14, 2022 i Newsweek

FROM SKIING DOWN EVEREST to climbing up Shark’s Fin on Mount Meru in the Himalaya, Jimmy Chin is a real-life superhero tackling feats no one has done before. But surprisingly, this extreme mountain sports photographer, Oscar-winning film director and world-class mountaineer doesn’t consider scaling one of the world’s tallest granite walls the greatest risk he ever took. Rather, it was a choice in his early 20s—“committing to the dream I had, moving to Yosemite and living in a car,” Chin tells Newsweek about his decision to follow this dream of climbing mountains. “As my friend and mentor, Jon Krakauer, once said to me, ‘There are two great risks in life, risking too much, and risking too little.’ There is maybe a perception that climbing was what I always wanted to…

Learning is a lifelong endeavor. But it is not the same endeavor all your life long. Your brain changes over the course of time, and so does your social and physical environment. In each phase of life, however, six physical and environmental factors are crucial to learning—sleep; exercise; diet; support for physical and mental health; opportunities for mastery; and safety to fail. Physical Needs SLEEP. The effects of sleep on learning are direct and immediate. Sleep is so crucial to the processes of learning, memory, judgment and insight, that it should be factored into any educational or creative project plan. EXERCISE. Exercise improves mood, decision-making and other psychological functions, which facilitates learning and the ability to use what is learned. Strength, aerobic and balance/control exercises like yoga and tai chi…

A SELF-EFFACING FORMER MORTGAGE BROKER, MIKE Detmer has never thought of himself as a particularly polarizing figure. But that changed the moment Donald Trump endorsed him for the Michigan state senate in a race few outside of the district were paying attention to until the former president weighed in. Detmer, who previously mounted an unsuccessful run in the 2020 Republican primary for the U.S. congressional seat representing southern Michigan’s 8th District, is now challenging Lana Theis, an incumbent Republican state senator representing District 22 in the Detroit exurbs. Theis easily won her race in 2018 and had been considered a relatively safe bet for reelection in the solidly red district until Trump’s backing of her competitor provided a jolt of fundraising to his campaign. Now, some state GOP officials worry,…

THE BUILD BACK BETTER ACT, which is still hanging in the balance, includes $400 billion for universal pre-kindergarten along with considerable subsidies for child care. That’s enough money to dramatically change the lives and prospects of millions of American children and families—but for one unanswered question: Given today’s crippling labor shortages, where will we find the workforce to provide care and education for the country’s youngest students? One of the most compelling and overlooked solutions resides at the other end of the age spectrum, in the vast and growing older population. We need an intergenerational early childhood Caring Corps as ambitious as the Climate Corps that the administration is proposing. The Caring Corps could start at 100,000 elders helping young children read, learn and develop, then climb to 1 million…

MIKE “WOMPUS” NIEZNANY is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service. That disability doesn’t keep Nieznany from making a living selling custom motorcycle luggage racks from his home in Gainesville, Georgia. Neither will it slow him down when it’s time to visit Washington, D.C.—heavily armed and ready to do his part in overthrowing the U.S. government. Millions of fellow would-be insurrectionists will be there, too, Nieznany says, “a ticking time-bomb” targeting the Capitol. “There are lots of fully armed people wondering what’s happening to this country,” he says. “Are we going to let Biden keep destroying it? Or do we need to get rid of him? We’re only going to take so much before we fight back.” The 2024…