Jim Liebelt's Youth Culture Watch

What's Hot? 7/29/11

Google Hot Internet Searches - 7/29/11
   1. journey
   2. vince young
   3. darren sproles
   4. tea party
   5. bea
   6. zara phillips
   7. olivia wilde
   8. battleship
   9. travis pastrana
  10. chicago bears
Source: Google

Top 10 U.S. Websites - 7/29/11
   1. Google
   2. Facebook
   3. Yahoo!
   4. YouTube
   5. Amazon
   6. Wikipedia
   7. Blogger
   8. Twitter
   9. Craigslist
  10. eBay
Source: Alexa

iTunes Top 10 Singles - 7/29/11
   1. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
   2. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry
   3. Lighters (feat. Bruno Mars) - Bad Meets Evil
   4. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
   5. Otis (feat. Otis Redding) - Jay Z & Kanye West
   6. How to Love - Lil Wayne
   7. Super Bass - Nicki Minaj
   8. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
   9. Give Me Everything - Pitbull
  10. Rolling in the Deep - Adele
Source: Apple iTunes

Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 7/24/11
   1. America's Got Talent - Tues.
   2. NCIS
   3. America's Got Talent - Wed.
   4. 60 Minutes
   5. NCIS: Los Angeles
   6. The Bachelorette
   7. CSI
   8. Big Brother 13 - Wed.
   9. Big Brother 13 - Sun.
  10. Big Brother 13 - Thurs.
Source: Nielsen Co

Top 5 Most Viewed Videos on YouTube - Week Ending - 7/29/11
   1. Pitbull - Rain Over Me ft. Marc Anthony
   2. Balotelli failed trick shot
   3. 2NE1 - Hate You
   4. Soccer Fan
   5. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Source: YouTube

Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 7/28/11
   1. Captain America: The First Avenger
   2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows II
   3. Friends With Benefits
   4. Horrible Bosses
   5. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Source: Variety

Heat Illness Strikes Male, Teen Athletes Harder

Researchers have found that males and teens are most likely to require a trip to the emergency department for a heat illness related to sports or another recreational activity.

From 2001 to 2009, males accounted for nearly three-quarters (72.5%) of emergency department visits for heat illness following such physical activity, according to Ellen Yard, PhD, an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer at the CDC, and colleagues.

Those most affected were 15- to 19-year-olds, who accounted for 35.6% of visits, the researchers reported in the July 29 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

"These findings highlight the need for effective heat illness prevention messages to target all persons who are physically active, including those who participate in unstructured sports and recreational activities," they wrote.

"Specific emphasis should be placed on targeting appropriate prevention messages toward those ages 15 to 19 years, who are at greatest risk, and their coaches and parents."

Although heat illness has been shown to be a leading cause of death and disability among athletes at the high school and college level, the burden of heat illness related to participation in unstructured sports or recreational activities in other age groups is not known, according to the researchers.

Source: MedPage Today
http://www.medpagetoday.com/EmergencyMedicine/EmergencyMedicine/27784

Teen Athletes at Greater Risk for Osteoarthritis

Children and teens with abnormal development of the long bone between the pelvis and knee from playing high-intensity sports, such as soccer and basketball, are at greater risk for osteoarthritis of the hip, according to a new study.

Swiss researchers explained that deformities of the top of that bone -- known as the femur -- leads to reduced rotation and pain during movement among young competitive athletes. This may explain why athletes are more likely to develop osteoarthritis than more sedentary individuals, according to Dr. Klaus Siebenrock, from the University of Bern in Switzerland.

The study showed that men and teens that had played in an elite basketball club since the age of 8 were more likely to have osteoarthritis of the hip than in those who did not take part in regular sports. The athletes, the researchers found, had femur deformities causing their thighbone to have abnormal contact with their hip socket.

Overall, the researchers found, athletes were 10 times more likely to have impaired hip function than those who did not play high-intensity sports.

Source: Doctors Lounge
http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/hd/21846

Four in Five College Students Sext

A recent survey from the University of Rhode Island has put some numbers on how widespread sexting is among College students. Seventy-eight percent of students in the survey say they've received sexually suggestive messages and 56% say they have received intimate images. Two thirds of the students said they sent salacious messages. Before we call a national epidemic of Weiner -itis, we should note that 73% of texts were sent to a romantic partner. Almost like a romantic old love-letter, but shorter and with more emoticons.

And, it seems, with more staying power. Almost a fifth of the people who received the racy messages then forwarded them onto somebody else. And 10% of all the explicit messages sent were relayed without permission from the original author. (Those statistics should be put on a label and stuck on cellphones everywhere.)

Source: Time
http://healthland.time.com/2011/07/25/how-many-college-kids-sext-four-out-of-five/

Moms Mimic Teen Daughter's Style

Bad news for teenage girls: While you're desperately trying to avoid looking like your mother, she's busy mimicking your fashion sense.

According to new research to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Consumer Behavior, teen daughters are much more likely to influence their moms' sense of style than the other way around. In fact, while teen daughters resist dressing like their mothers, moms tend to feel younger than their age and express that feeling by buying the same clothes and products as their daughters.

"Mimicking her daughter is like a shortcut to what is hip and cool," said study researcher Ayalla Ruvio, a professor of marketing at Temple University in Pennsylvania.

Marketing researchers have long known that kids influence their parents' purchasing decisions. Kids have a lot of input into items that get purchased for the whole family, such as cereal or soup. What's unusual about the new study is that it finds that daughters influence the purchase of items that mothers plan to use for themselves alone.

Ruvio and her colleagues surveyed 343 mothers, average age of about 44, and their daughters, who were about 16 years old on average. They asked the mothers and daughters about their interest in fashion and how old they felt (as opposed to how old they really were). Moms were asked how much their daughters influenced their clothes and make-up purchases, and daughters were asked the same question about their mothers.

The answers revealed that when mothers see their daughters as stylish, they're likely to mimic their child's look, especially if the moms think of themselves as young at heart. Daughters, on the other hand, were not keen on imitating their mothers, even when the teens perceived themselves as older than their years and saw their moms as stylish.

Ruvio said she was surprised at how eager mothers were to look like their daughters. "They really tend to copy the way they dress up, the things they wear," she told LiveScience. "We did some interviews in a study published elsewhere, and [moms] told us they borrow items from their teenage girls. The teenage girls didn't really like that."

Source: Today
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43884465/ns/today-parenting_and_family/

What's Hot? 7/22/11

Google Hot Internet Searches - 7/22/11
   1. oslo
   2. borders
   3. prometheus
   4. captain america the first avenger
   5. juno
   6. sin city
   7. portable air conditioner
   8. sarah michelle gellar
   9. google logo
  10. norway
Source: Google

Top 10 U.S. Websites - 7/22/11
   1. Google
   2. Facebook
   3. Yahoo!
   4. YouTube
   5. Amazon
   6. Wikipedia
   7. Blogger
   8. Twitter
   9. Craigslist
  10. eBay
Source: Alexa

iTunes Top 10 Singles - 7/22/11
   1. Party Rock Anthem - LMFAO
   2. Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) - Katy Perry
   3. Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae
   4. Lighters (feat. Bruno Mars) - Bad Meets Evil
   5. How to Love - Lil Wayne
   6. Super Bass - Nicki Minaj
   7. Give Me Everything - Pitbull
   8. I Wanna Go - Britney Spears
   9. Rolling in the Deep - Adele
  10. Good Life - OneRepublic
Source: Apple iTunes

Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 7/17/11
   1. America's Got Talent - Tues.
   2. America's Got Talent - Wed.
   3. Fox MLB All-Star Game
   4. NCIS
   5. 60 Minutes
   6. Fox MLB All-Star Game Pre-Game
   7. The Bachelorette
   8. NCIS: Los Angeles
   9. CSI
  10. Big Brother 13 - Wed.
Source: Nielsen Co

Top 5 Most Viewed Videos on YouTube - Week Ending - 7/22/11
   1. Rebecca Black - My Moment
   2. Leave Justin Bieber Alone!
   3. David Guetta - Little Bad Girl
   4. Demi Lovato - Skyscraper
   5. A "Good-bye Baby"
Source: YouTube

Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 7/21/11
   1. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows II
   2. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
   3. Horrible Bosses
   4. Zookeeper
   5. Cars 2
Source: Variety

Epidemic of Obesity in U.S. Kids Began in Late '90s

The epidemic of excess weight gain and obesity among young Americans began about 15 years ago, a new study finds.

"Our research documents the emergence of the obesity epidemic among adolescents in the later half of the 1990s, and among young adults in 2000," said Hedwig Lee, who led the study while at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is now an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle.

"The jury is still out about all the possible causes for the increasing weight gain among adolescents . . . as well as for the entire population," said Lee.

However, she cited a number of possible factors, including a rise in time spent in front of computer or TV screens and longer time spent in post-secondary education, "transitioning" to adulthood. According to Lee, poor diet and couch-potato lifestyles rise when young people leave the parental home and go out on their own, before starting their own families.

According to the study, the BMI of the average 18-year-old from 1959 to 1980 stayed relatively stable at 22. However, it had risen to 23 by 1990, and to about 25 by 2000, the researchers found. That would translate into a weight gain from an average of 149 pounds to an average of 166 pounds for a 5-foot 9-inch, 18-year-old male. An average 5-foot 5-inch female's weight increased from 132 to 147 pounds.

Source: U.S. News & World Report
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/07/21/epidemic-of-obesity-in-us-kids-began-in-late-90s

Harry Potter Makes Magic at Box Office

The final Harry Potter movie shattered the record for an opening weekend at the North American box office, industry trackers said.

Muggles – non-magical people – of all ages handed over a collective $169.2 million as they flocked to see “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” the eighth and final film about the boy wizard.

The haul is $11 million more the previous opening weekend record of $158-million set in 2008 by the Batman film “The Dark Knight.”

“DH-2” had already raked in a record $92.1 million in opening day sales, smashing the previous record held by “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which took $72.7 million in 2009.

Source: Dawn.com
http://www.dawn.com/2011/07/19/harry-potter-finale-shatters-us-box-office-record.html

Amazon Launches Kindle Textbook Rental Service

Amazon is now allowing students to rent textbooks on their Kindle and Kindle apps. The e-commerce giant is launching Kindle Textbook Rental today, which allows students to save up to 80% off textbook list prices by renting textbooks from the Kindle Store.

Amazon says that students can customize rental periods between 30 and 360 days, so students only pay for the specific amount of time they need a book. And students can extend the rental time if they need more time to use the textbook. The company says that “tens of thousands of textbooks” are available for the 2011 school year from publishers such as John Wiley & Sons, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis.

The company is also extending its Whispersync technology so that students can get to keep and access all of their notes and highlighted content in the Amazon Cloud, even after a rental expires.

Savings, says the company, amount to up to 80% off the print list price on a 30-day rental. For example, an accounting textbook costs $109.20 to buy the actual book, but starts at $38.29 to rent the textbook.

Kindle Textbooks can be read across both the Kindle devices and Amazon’s free Kindle Reading Apps for PC, Mac, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone and Android-based devices.

Source: TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/18/amazon-launches-kindle-textbook-rental-service-allows-students-to-store-notes-in-the-cloud/

Teen Girls' Brains Hit Hard by Binge-Drinking

Binge-drinking can have a long-lasting negative effect on the brains of teenaged girls, hitting them harder than it does young boys, a new study shows.

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and Stanford University found that girls who binge-drink -- defined as having four or more drinks for women and five or more for men -- showed less activity in several brain regions than teetotal teenagers, both girl and boy, the study said.

"These differences in brain activity were linked to worse performance on other measures of attention and working memory ability," Stanford University psychiatry professor Susan Tapert, a co-author of the study, said.

Male teenage binge-drinkers also showed some differences in brain activity to their non-drinking counterparts, but less abnormality than was seen in the girls, the study says.

"This suggests that female teens may be particularly vulnerable to the negative effects of heavy alcohol use," Tapert said.

Alcohol could affect teen girls' brains more than it does their male counterparts' for a number of reasons, including that girls' brains develop one to two years earlier than males', said Tapert. "So alcohol use during a different developmental stage -- despite the same age -- could account for the gender differences," she said.

The findings are "similar to what generally has been found in adult alcoholics: while both men and women are adversely affected, women are often more vulnerable than men to deleterious effects on the brain," Tapert said.

Source: AFP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g3TFVg4jbjLJNpU1ulFlLFcfm3HA