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3-D Food Printer Will Change the Way We See Food
Certain crops and pesticides might not be needed anymore, providing an environmentally friendly way to eat. But those impacted would be the people who could afford to buy a food printer and cartridges in the first place. Continue reading »
Will Venezuela’s Ambitious New Labor Law Work, or Does It Aim at the Wrong Targets?
Just weeks after President Maduro’s election, Venezuela put into effect a sweeping new labor law that should silence some critics – or create new ones. Continue reading »
Helping the Homeless in the Bronx Has the Side Effect of Driving Up Rent for Everyone Else
New York City has a legal obligation to provide shelter to anyone who it deems to be homeless. Continue reading »
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Abercrombie, Fitch & Women’s Bodies for Sale
Aside from the fact that it doesn’t even make business sense for a company to cut out the 69 percent of Americans who are plus-size, not to mention the growing ranks of people overseas, there’s a clear double standard between the treatment of women’s bodies and men’s bodies. Continue reading »
Zimbabwe’s Crackdown on Sex Work Is Dumb and Won’t Work
The world’s oldest profession isn’t typically the safest. Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog: News We Found Interesting
There was a lot to read on the subject of social issues this week. Continue reading »
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Four-Year-Olds Don’t Like Fat People. Wonder Where They Got That From.
We need to move away from seeing someone’s size and assuming that we know absolutely anything about their health or lifestyle. Continue reading »
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Good News: Afghanistan Taliban Will No Longer Interfere With Polio Vaccinations
At this intersection of public health and politics, not only are lives being lost but there is support for the idea that, without a more cohesive effort to eradicate polio completely, the number of cases in these countries could increase to thousands a year in a matter of ten years. Continue reading »
Computers May Be Able to Help Prevent Suicide
It is kind of frightening to think that a computer can diagnose to such accuracy if one is suicidal or not. But as Pestian said, the computer has an unbiased eye that spots patterns without the lenses we as human use to read and see the world. A computer may be able to see the pattern that we all miss in those around us who are thinking about hurting themselves. Continue reading »
Leprosy Has Not Been Eliminated
Leprosy colonies have been established for centuries; quarantining people afflicted with the disease and condemning them as cursed. Now there is a cure for Leprosy, yet there still isn’t a concentrated effort to eradicate the disease. Continue reading »
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NBC’s Line-Up Puts Characters Who Are Physically Limited Center Stage
All three series look like they use the characters’ disabilities as a jumping off point, not as a means to limit them. Continue reading »
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Google Maps for the United States of Hate
Researchers from Humboldt University have taken geotagged ableist, racist and homophobic Tweet over the past year and mapped them Continue reading »
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Weekend Blog Hog: News We Think You Should Know
Here are some of the best articles that we found this week. Continue reading »
Segregation and Discrimination Is Alive and Well against the Roma in Slovakia
Roma kids are often taught in separate classrooms, corralled to play in a separate recess facility and are refused from eating hot lunch with the Slovakian kids in at least one school. Continue reading »
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Germany Is a Case Study in What Happens when Family Planning Policies Target the Wrong Things
Germany treats its mothers well, but it has one of the lowest birth rates on a continent filled with low birth rates. Continue reading »
Birth Control Access Shouldn’t Have Anything to Do with Politics
Instead of making it easier, it’s often made more difficult for women to access contraception and sexual health information Continue reading »
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Big Data Confirms: Yup, Healthcare Costs Make No Sense
Big Data is increasingly being used to put a number on things that we had a hunch about but didn’t know for certain. Continue reading »
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Of Empathy and Psychopaths
Psychopaths actually prove Rifkin’s point that our society is built on empathy. If none of us had this quality we wouldn’t have even made it to the stone age. Continue reading »
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On Beauty: Women’s Bodies as Public Consumption
When do we ever get to evade that public ownership? Continue reading »
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The End of First World Problems: Many Egyptians Are Fighting for Improved Worker Rights
In Egypt, while much of the attention has been focused on politics and sexual assaults in the country, there are other more mundane concerns that take place there as well. Continue reading »
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Monday Blog Hog: The Good, the Bad and the Inscrutable
All of the links that we thought were worthy of notice last week (or, more honestly, that we noticed last week). Continue reading »
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The Famine in Somalia Shouldn’t Have Happened
And it definitely didn’t need to get as bad as it did for us to pay attention. Continue reading »
My Reaction to the Reaction of Yale’s Decision to Cover Sex Reassignment Surgery
Yale University recently joined the list of 36 other universities that cover sex-reassignment surgeries. Continue reading »
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This Michigan Mom Was Uncomfortable by How “Pornographic” Anne Frank’s Diary Is
Did you just say the word “Screech” out loud because you’re confused by this mission? I thought you might’ve. Continue reading »
