T.J. Raphael appears in the following:
FTC Complaint: Children's Apps Not Really Educational
Monday, August 12, 2013
A complaint filed with the Federal Trade Commission last week claims that many mobile apps claiming to be educational are not. Dr. Melissa Morgenlander is an educational consultant an...
Remembering Eydie Gorme
Monday, August 12, 2013
Eydie Gorme died yesterday at the age of 84 surrounded by her family in Las Vegas, the city where she and her husband Steve Lawrence performed so often and where they got married in 1...
NSA Introduces New Plan To Prevent Leaks
Monday, August 12, 2013
General Keith Alexander said that the NSA plans to reduce the number of systems administrators by up to 90 percent. By limiting the number of people with access, Alexander says the le...
Mothers Who Chose to "Opt-Out" Want Back In The Workforce
Friday, August 09, 2013
About decade ago, a movement of highly educated, well-paid professional women chose to leave their positions of power to stay home and raise their children. At the time, journalist Li...
A Father's Account Of His Late Son's Battle With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Friday, August 09, 2013
This week The Takeaway is exploring the individual and collective experience of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in America. Corporal Jeffrey Lucey served in Iraq between January...
Compensation Finally Comes to Family of Henrietta Lacks
Friday, August 09, 2013
In 1951 when Henrietta Lacks was 31-years-old, doctors harvested her cells while treating her for cancer. Researchers have been using those cells ever since—in over 74,000 medical exp...
New Movie Releases of the Week: Planes, Elysium, Lovelace and More
Friday, August 09, 2013
Dane Cook, Logan Lerman, Jennifer Aniston, Matt Damon, and Amanda Seyfried—that's your Movie Date lineup for this weekend. Five new films are all out this weekend. Bringing us th...
The Collective Experience of PTSD
Friday, August 09, 2013
While the trauma facing veterans returning home may be an individual experience, on some level, are we all going to experience PTSD collectively as a nation? Mary de Young is a Profes...
Two Veterans Separated by 30 Years Come to Terms With PTSD
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Years after the Vietnam War, PTSD is now a household term. Mary McGriff is a retired Captain in the United States Air Force. She served at Balad Air Force base in Iraq in 2004. Dougla...
Strained U.S.-Russian Relations Lead to Canceled Summit
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Yesterday, President Obama announced his decision to cancel his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, marking the first time that an American president has called off ...
Has Tesla Motors Entered the Big Time?
Thursday, August 08, 2013
What is going on with the Tesla? Not the scientist and inventor many of you would love to go back in time to visit but Tesla Motors, the maker of electric cars. The company made a sur...
Alan Alda: Reigniting The Public's Love of Science
Thursday, August 08, 2013
Yesterday Alan Alda, the Emmy winning actor and writer, as well as visiting professor and advisory board member at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook Univer...
Reuters: D.E.A. Conceals Evidence in Investigations of Americans
Thursday, August 08, 2013
For 20 years, a division of the D.E.A. has been taking data collected from intelligence intercepts and providing it to authorities to launch criminal investigations into Americans. Bu...
Will Amazon's Bezos Transform the Newspaper Industry?
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post this week for $250 million. There is speculation that Bezos has big plans for revamping the paper, which has suffered a 44 percen...
The Directors of "Lovelace" on America's First Porn Star
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
As America’s first real porn superstar, Linda Lovelace was both celebrated as a symbol of sexual liberation and derided for participating in the objectification of women. Despite her ...
New Cups & Straws Detect Date Rape Drugs
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Date rape drugs are still showing up in bars, restaurants, at parties, and on college campuses, rendering victims physically helpless and unable to remember what happened to them. Aft...
Drones in Yemen: A Scene from Ground Level
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
On Tuesday, the State Department advised all Americans in Yemen to leave the country because of "the continued potential for terrorist attacks." Yalda Hakim, a BBC World News correspo...
The Lingering Stress of War for Military Families
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
The stress of war lingers not just with our veterans but with their families as well. Take Vivian Greentree, Director of Research and Policy for Blue Star Families, for example. Vivia...
Can Fast Food Fight Obesity?
Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Fast food has its fair share of critics who say that the processed foods served by chain restaurants are responsible for the obesity epidemic in this country. But in this month’s cove...
Paul Schrader On His Controversial New Film, "The Canyons"
Friday, August 02, 2013
Paul Schrader, the screenwriter famous for “Taxi Driver,” “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and many other films, is attracting attention for his newest film, in limited release this F...