Stacey Cartier, LCSW, MPH Clinical Consultation and Mediation , LLC

05/10/2026

05/10/2026

Americans aren’t getting naked in locker rooms as much anymore, Jacob Beckert wrote in November—part of a reversal in cultural norms that could profoundly change how we view the naked body. https://theatln.tc/qDnrQANw

“For more than a century, the cultural norm in the United States was that nudity was acceptable—at least within same-sex environments,” Beckert continues. But many of the everyday spots where Americans once encountered unclothed bodies—locker rooms, school showers, public pools, bathhouses—have “either vanished or shifted away from collective nudity.”

This kind of casual nudity has in part declined because the mainstream assumption that “same-sex facilities were inherently asexual—and therefore appropriate settings for nudity—no longer holds,” Beckert writes. Meanwhile, broader conversations about consent, sexual assault, and vulnerability, as well as the ubiquity of phone cameras, “have raised questions about the discomfort or even legal liabilities that such spaces can create.”

Although these changes can be positive, Beckert continues, they also introduce a new reality: “Today, the only naked bodies that many Americans will likely ever see are their own, a partner’s, or those on a screen,” Beckert argues. “Gone are our unvarnished points of physical comparison—the ordinary, unposed figures of other people.” This loss may seem trivial, he continues, “but it also may change how people see themselves.”

🎨: Tim Enthoven

05/10/2026

The “Alpine divorce,” in which one partner leaves another stranded while hiking, is more serious than the name implies.

03/22/2026

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03/21/2026

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The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office.

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03/19/2026

Delusional Thinking… it’s just making things up …..

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — In today’s Health Headlines, we’re discussing delusional thinking: what it is, how to recognize when it may become concerning, and what families can do to help. Dr. …

03/17/2026

The data centers needed to train AI can consume as much electricity as 200,000 American homes—and the race to create that energy is reshaping the physical world, Matteo Wong reports. https://theatln.tc/TypYpeU7

Conservative analyses forecast that the tech industry will “drop the equivalent of roughly 40 Seattles onto America’s grid within a decade,” Wong writes.

In the short-term, AI companies are leaning on fossil fuels, which they regard as far more reliable and readily available than wind, solar, or nuclear. The International Energy Agency estimates that data-center emissions could more than double by 2030—becoming one of the fastest-growing sources of greenhouse gases in the world, Wong writes.

As the need for carbon-free electricity grows more urgent, Americans are having to reckon with nuclear energy again. The AI boom has provided the nuclear industry with “wealthy backers and an army of tech cheerleaders,” Wong writes. Meta and Amazon are buying electricity from large nuclear-power plants, and nearly every major data-center company is investing in experimental nuclear technologies—especially small modular reactors, which in theory will make fission cheaper and easier to deploy.

“Still, tech firms insist that nuclear and other clean technologies cannot be deployed quickly enough to meet their needs,” Wong continues. To power its data centers, Microsoft is purchasing electricity from an energy company reviving the undamaged reactor on Three Mile Island, but that is taking years to restart. For now, “using existing power sources more wisely, rather than building new ones, may be all the AI industry needs,” but it’s also pushing toward another inflection point.

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📸: Landon Speers

03/17/2026

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The show’s real-time storytelling gives viewers a startling look at a process rarely captured on TV.

02/28/2026

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