Fast Fashion, Sand Shortage, Recorder Lessons

Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 9 p.m.

The high price of the fast fashion industry–for the planet, economies, and human rights. Also, sand is used in all sorts of ways–like in our buildings and technology–but the world is running out of it. Then, why so many American kids learn to play those plastic recorders in elementary school. Also today: the graduate student whose crossword puzzle got in the New York Times, how the portrayal of smoking on TV affects teens, and how cannabis affects people with ADHD.