ICYMI: Disappearing Amazon Tribes And Why Kids Hate School Lunch

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This week, we were taken with a radio interview featuring Dr. James O'Connell, who spent his 30-year career making "house calls" to Boston's homeless population -- offering them medical care under bridges, in subway tunnels and on the city's streets -- and what he learned from the nurses who served Boston's homeless for years before he joined the team.

We also spent time on a Q&A with rainforest conservationist and ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin, who makes a compelling case for conservation as an ethical exercise, rather than viewing Amazonian species primarily as a source for plant-based medical discoveries.

Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read, listen to and love this week?

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Teenagers who play video or Internet games for more than 12 hours a day are seeking professional help in Seattle.

Mason’s advice to others: Stay mindful of your behavior, and watch out for when the Internet 'crosses from a hobby to a crutch.'

Cheryl Hanna-Truscott's photo project, "Protective Custody," is an effort to call attention to the exponential increase in female incarceration rates over the past few decades.

Some of them have lost other children and are so bereft and down on themselves. So, as much as they hate to admit it, sometimes they'll tell me, 'I'm so grateful to be here. It's like God has given me another chance.'

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A Q&A about shamanism, Western exploitation and South America's rapidly disappearing botanical wisdom, with Amazonian ethnobotanist and rainforest conservationist Mark Plotkin.

As Westerners, we're kind of taught that anything that isn't done by a white guy in a lab coat isn't science, but that obviously isn't true.

Elizabeth Wurtzel -- who developed breast cancer in her 40s and underwent three surgeries in six months, plus eight rounds of chemotherapy -- makes the case that all Ashkenazi Jewish women should get tested for the BRCA mutation.

In Dr. Port’s view, all women of Ashkenazi Jewish descent should get tested, because 'every BRCA patient that develops breast cancer is a failure of prevention.'

Dr. James O'Connell talks about his 30-year career caring providing "house calls" Boston's homeless men and women.

It's hard to imagine being so far down that your contact with society -- your isolation -- is so profound that you see no way out. I think when you see the courage of how people respond to that isolation, it takes your breath away.

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While suicide tends to skew middle-aged and white on a national level, among young adults, Native Americans have the highest 18- to 24-year-old suicide rates in the country.

Five years ago, psychiatrist R. Dale Walker was invited to a small Northern Plains reservation that had suffered 17 suicides in eight months. It was there, listening in a group therapy meeting, that he first heard the phrase 'grieved out.'

Laws aimed at school meal programs haven't done much to educate students about nutrition or fix the obesity epidemic.

If a kid wasn’t reading at grade level we would work harder to get them to read at grade level, but with food we’ve somehow abdicated that part of their education.

While fact checking doesn't change public opinion, it's effective at tempering politicians before they fib.

Fact-checking's role as a monitor of elite behavior may justify the continued investment of philanthropic and journalistic resources.

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