HLTC23H3 Final: Lecture 12 Study Notes
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Lecture #12: threats to child development from the built environment. The mozart effect in children: there is a pop culture phenomenon called the mozart effect www. notesolution. com. Listening to mozart makes your child smarter, or that early childhood exposure to classical music has good effect on child cognitive development: has been extended to encompass any kind of stimulation. Slow death by rubber duck: wall street journal attacks on slow death by rubber duck were misguided. Bisphenol a (bpa: used in plastics manufacture, helath risks suspected since 1930s. Context: there are two unprecedented issues in the world today, threats to planetary climate/longevity due to human engineering and production, attempts to reduce, reuse, recycle. New york: macmillan: environmental awareness, in the 1960s and 70s there was a growing awareness of the effects of humanity of toxifying the environment, the epa was founded in 1970 due to public pressure, under the nixon.
