by jaclynyaredgrandrapids | Aug 7, 2020 | Blog, Jaclyn Yared Grand Rapids
In recent years, the NFL has been forced to finally get serious about concussion avoidance, and for good reason. A lack of action on this subject left countless football players subject to the ravages of CTE, a devastating condition that leaves the brain with severe...
by jaclynyaredgrandrapids | Mar 15, 2020 | Blog, Jaclyn Yared Grand Rapids
Once upon a time, big hits ruled the NFL. Look back at the biggest hits and hitmakers of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and you’ll see some of the most brutal moments in the history of the sport laid out by some of its top enforcers. Names like Jack Tatum made a name for...
by jaclynyaredgrandrapids | Feb 15, 2020 | Blog, Jaclyn Yared Grand Rapids
One of the most hard-won declarations of civil rights of the past two centuries has been the emergence and emancipation of women as complete equals to men. That being said, while women continue to fight for equality in the workplace and beyond, one area in which they...
by jaclynyaredgrandrapids | Jan 15, 2020 | Blog, Jaclyn Yared Grand Rapids
One of the most enduring tropes in science fiction is to reimagine and reexamine the human brain through the context of robotic ones. In Star Trek: The Next Generation, for example, Data has “a positronic brain,” which, for plot and story purposes, functions much like...
by jaclynyaredgrandrapids | Dec 15, 2019 | Blog, Jaclyn Yared Grand Rapids
Bullying has received added attention in recent years, and for a good reason. We are, unfortunately, living through something of a “golden age” of bullying. Social media harassment has come to complement traditional means of bullying in such a way as to allow bullies...