Psychology & Psychiatry
Four reasons teens take part in social media challenges
Social media challenges are wide-ranging—both in the stunts they involve and the reasons why people do them.
Sep 22, 2023
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Teenage brains are drawn to popular social media challenges—here's how parents can get their kids to think twice
Viral social media trends started innocently enough.
May 19, 2023
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NCAA honors man who inspired ALS ice bucket challenge
The Massachusetts man who inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge that has raised millions of dollars for ALS research received a hand-delivered award from the NCAA on Tuesday.
Dec 14, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
West Africans get creative with Ebola awareness
A young man on camera names the person who's challenged him to dump the contents of a bucket over his head. But in a twist on the ice bucket challenge, this man is soon drenched in frothy, soapy water—part of a campaign ...
Aug 27, 2014
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Neuroscience
Protein catch-22: Unravelling the roles of ataxin-2 in health and disease
Thousands of people took the Ice Bucket Challenge, a sensation in the summer of 2014. Participants were filmed dumping buckets of ice-cold water on their heads and challenging their friends to do the same. Challenged participants ...
Jun 27, 2018
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NCAA honoring man who inspired ALS ice bucket challenge
The NCAA is honoring the former Boston College baseball captain who inspired the ice bucket challenge that raised millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig's disease research.
Dec 13, 2016
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ALS patient behind ice bucket challenge: I will bounce back
Pete Frates was mistakenly written off as dead this summer. Turns out, the man who helped spark the ice bucket challenge that raised millions of dollars for research on Lou Gehrig's disease hasn't gone anywhere yet.
Oct 3, 2017
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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge arrives in North Korea
It's pretty hard to find a novel way to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by now, but two-time Grammy-winning rapper Pras Michel, a founding member of the Fugees, has done it—getting his dousing in the center of North Korea's ...
Aug 31, 2014
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Ex-college player who inspired ice bucket challenge honored
The man who inspired the ice bucket challenge was honored on Tuesday for helping to raise millions of dollars for Lou Gehrig's disease research.
Sep 5, 2017
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Cold cash just keeps washing in from ALS challenge
In the couple of hours it took an official from the ALS Association to return a reporter's call for comment, the group's ubiquitous "ice bucket challenge" had brought in a few million more dollars.
Aug 28, 2014
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