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Shopping Healthcare MRI
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How to make comparing prices of an MRI or colonoscopy as easy as shopping for a new laptop

by lisadtinsley September 28, 2021

Morgan Henderson – Senior Data Scientist, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Morgane Mouslim – Policy Analyst, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Health researchers have long argued that the key to reining in surging…

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NBA Basketball
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Do star athletes who want to play for the NBA really need college? What LaMelo Ball got right – and wrong – about why they don’t

by lisadtinsley September 16, 2021

John Holden – Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, Oklahoma State University In a recent interview published in GQ, NBA star LaMelo Ball downplayed the importance of college for athletes who aspire…

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Black parents say their children are being suspended for petty reasons that force them to take off from work and sometimes lose their jobs

by lisadtinsley September 15, 2021

Charles Bell – Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences, Illinois State University When “Mike,” the father of a ninth grade student, got a call from his daughter’s school, the first…

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NationalRace + Culture

Black, Hispanic and Asian American donors give more to social and racial justice causes as well as strangers in need – new survey

by lisadtinsley September 14, 2021

Wendy Chen – Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Texas Tech University Una Osili – Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies; Associate Dean for Research and International Programs, Lilly Family School…

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Covid 19 animation
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Eighteen months of the COVID-19 pandemic – a retrospective in seven charts

by lisadtinsley September 13, 2021

Katelyn Jetelina – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston A year and a half into what the World Health Organization officially declared a pandemic on March…

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Covid 19 Vaccine
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What happens when the COVID-19 vaccines enter the body – a road map for kids and grown-ups

by lisadtinsley September 8, 2021

Glenn J Rapsinski – Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellow, University of Pittsburgh The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has changed the way people live around the world. As of…

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September 8, 2021 0 comment 244 views
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John Lewis
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How the images of John Lewis being beaten during ‘Bloody Sunday’ went viral

by lisadtinsley August 26, 2021

Written by Aniko Bodroghkozy – Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the…

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August 26, 2021 0 comment 333 views
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How Black writers and journalists have wielded punctuation in their activism

by lisadtinsley August 25, 2021

Written by Eurie Dahn – Associate Professor of English, The College of Saint Rose Using punctuation and capitalization as a form of protest doesn’t exactly scream radicalism. But in debates…

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August 25, 2021 0 comment 349 views
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The Newest Disease Detection Tool for Covid and Beyond: Poop

by lisadtinsley August 20, 2021

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester Since reopening campus at the University of California-San Diego last summer, university officials have relied on the tried-and-true public health strategies of testing and contact tracing. But…

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Apple can scan your photos for child abuse and still protect your privacy – if the company keeps its promises

by lisadtinsley August 16, 2021

The proliferation of child sexual abuse material on the internet is harrowing and sobering. Technology companies send tens of millions of reports per year of these images to the nonprofit…

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