2016 Nostalgia, Mental Health Improvements, and Voice Memos

Nostalgia for 2016 hits social media, some hopeful, if complicated, mental health statistics about college students, and teens would rather send a voice note than make a phone call.

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1. Nostalgia for 2016 hits social media. - 8:54
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2. Some hopeful, if complicated, mental health statistics about college students. - 24:40
➡️ https://healthymindsnetwork.org/wp-co...
3. Teens would rather send a voice note than make a phone call. - 38:08
➡️ https://www.the-independent.com/life-...

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In Other News: - 54:22

1. The Indiana Hoosiers won an electrifying College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, punctuated by an iconic, fourth-down touchdown run from Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza.
➡️    • THE HEISMAN DELIVERS 😤 Fernando Mendoza ru...  
2. BookTok’s beloved People We Meet on Vacation, an Emily Henry book-to-movie adaptation, has debuted at No.1 on the Netflix film chart with 17.2m views.
➡️https://variety.com/2026/film/news/pe...
3. A new trend on TikTok involves impersonating owls. 
➡️https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-i...
4. “Bringing random items to school” is a TikTok trend where kids pull increasingly unhinged objects out of their backpacks purely for laughs.
➡️https://www.tiktok.com/@eliblair._/vi...
5. The tremendous success of a stationery store in Chicago is being hailed as indicative of the “return to analog” trend, as the popularity of journals, calligraphy, and sending snail mail letters surges.
➡️https://www.wbez.org/business/2026/01...