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How MTV Managed To Do What Decades of Sex-Ed Teachers Could Not

Should schools replace sex education/health with MTV? Normally, I’d consider this question insane, but after a recent study by the Brookings Institute, I’m not so sure. That study found that MTV’s “Teen Mom”, and “16 And Pregnant” caused a 5.7% drop in the total US teen pregnancy rate. The Brookings Institute made an awesome video to explain how this is possible. MTV managed to...

Thank You Walt! (and an interview from 365 days ago)

I just wanted to give a shoutout to Walter Mossberg today. Mossberg has been writing digital reviews for 22 years for the Wall Street Journal, and his own outfit, AllthingsD. Today Walt wrote his final column, fittingly titled “Top Products in Two Decades of Product Reviews“, which is definitely worth a read. Walt has been an inspiration and a mentor to me. His columns...

Google Takes on Old Challenge With New Technology

Google Ideas, Google’s global issues think tank, announced this week a $3 million investment that they’re making into creating a global human trafficking hotline network, helping to combat a problem that has been worsening for literally hundreds of years After holding various events, and discussions on illicit networks, slavery, and human trafficking, Google ideas has started developing a system for tracking trafficking trends on...

How To Blog From a Mac: 10 Crucial Mac Blogging Apps

Blogging is a blast, and Macs are my favorite computers, but it’s a challenge finding good blogging software to get my daily post done from. A few apps are absolutely critical to my blogging, and I think the’d be helpful to you too, so I wanted to share them with you. Also Read Our List of 34 Great Blogging Resources and Tools MarsEdit: MarsEdit isn’t...

New here? Get started on our new “getting started” page.

We love new people, and we haven’t been friendly enough to them lately here on The App Store Chronicle, so today we’re proud to launch the “getting started” page. This new page is entirely devoted to helping you get off on the right foot with us. It has places to find us, ways to connect with us, and some of our best stuff to catch...