Are NFL & College Football As We Know Them About To End?

Are NFL & College Football As We Know Them About To End?
Possibly. And the culprit will be chronic traumatic encephalopathy (or CTE). I first learned about CTE after reading a Malcolm Gladwell piece in the New Yorker where he argued that football and a dog fighting are fundamentally the same . Gladwell’s comparison is, of course, specious. And unfortunate, because it obscured, for me, the most interesting aspects of the story: CTE, and its …
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Oil Spill Could Lead To Harsh Mental Effects
A sociologist who studied the Exxon Valdez spill told reporters on Tuesday that the mental health impacts of the BP oil spill will dwarf those encountered after the last major oil spill of U.S. shores. University of South Alabama researcher Steve Picou told Reuters that the effects of the spill will far overshadow the negative effects experienced that the Exxon tanker caused by dumping millions …
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