Mobile Phones and Birth Weight

Today, you’ll learn about how we experience colors differently as we age, a discovery from the time of the very first continents on Earth, and the impact of mobile phones on infant health - it’s not what you might expect. 

Aging & Colors  

• “Colours fade as people age.” UCL. 2024.  
• “Pupil responses to colorfulness are selectively reduced in healthy older adults.” By Janneke E. P. van Leeuwen, et al. 2023.  

First Continents 

• “Researchers uncover source rocks of the first real continents.” The University of British Columbia. 2024.  
• “Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite.” by Herve Martin & Nicholas Arndt. Reference work entry. N.d. 
• “What was it like when life first sprang forth on Earth?” by Ethan Siegel. 2024.  
• “Archaean continental crust formed from mafic cumulates.” by Matthijs A. Smit, et al. 2024.  

Phones & Infant Health 

• “How does owning a mobile phone impact infant health?” McGill University. 2024.  
• “Mobile phones and infant health at birth.” by Luca Maria Pesando & Komin Qiyomiddin. 2023.  
• “Prevalence of low birth weight and its associated factors: Hospital based cross sectional study in Nepal.” by Pratibha Thapa, et al. 2022.  
• “National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis.” by Hannah Blencowe, et al. 2019.  
• “Low birth weight.” World Health Organization. N.d.  

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