21st-century medicine not a huge improvement over the witch doctor: Ineffective health care is a global phenomenon which increases the burden of illness and wastes scarce resources, UN experts said on Thursday.
An entire volunteer fire department in Pennsylvania has been suspended as investigators look into accusations of racism and bullying, PennLive reports. The Lawnton Fire Company of Swatara Township is no longer responding to calls or participating in any EMS operations [....]
Intriguing little article that reports that there have been more than a few studies that have shown the opposite of conventional wisdom.about violent media, i.e., movies, video games, tv shows, and professional sports, that it causes crime. Rather, these studies show it reduces it.
It’s fairly well known that a bad diet, a lack of exercise, and genetics can all contribute to type 2 diabetes. But a new global study points to an additional, surprising culprit: the air pollution emitted by cars and trucks.
There’s no returning to a golden age of American democracy that never existed, by Matthew Yglesias, July 3. Using Ezra Klein's tweet on the piece as a summary because it's a twofer; if you click on the date below, you get taken to a thread of Klein's thoughts on topic:
[....] Common Ground Healthcare, based in Brookfield, now is among more than 100 health insurers who contend that the federal government owes them billions of dollars for reneging on commitments made as part of the Affordable Care Act [....]
One remarkable revelation from this article: The head of the New York City subway system says he has never talked to the mayor of New York City (and says he can't get meetings with the governor either): https://t.co/To662fMFQz
I still have hopes for the right comic(s) peeling off some of the Trump fan base. They've just been stymied by the fact that he started out as a caricature from the getgo.This sounds promising to me. He got fans from his The Apprentice rep as Mr. Genius Tough Billionaire and he's still playing the same character as president:
Some 350 schools across the country squeeze two days of lessons into one, providing a vital education lifeline for some 150,000 Syrian refugee children.
[....] (Jamilah) Salvador told BuzzFeed News that the sight made her super emotional, so she decided to take photos of the group and share them on Twitter.Her tweet, along with tweets featuring the group by other attendees, went viral [....]
Lawrence Bacow has a new vision for Harvard University and it will take him all the way to . . . Michigan. Bacow, who becomes the Ivy League institution’s 29th president this month, is out to shed Harvard’s image as a Northeast enclave for the country’s elite, in the age of President Trump’s muscular populism.
MEXICO CITY — Riding a wave of populist anger fueled by rampant corruption and violence, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected president of Mexico on Sunday, in a landslide victory that upended the nation’s political establishment and handed him a sweeping mandate to reshape the country.
Many unaware that most immigrants in the U.S. are here legally