Q&A: Jonathan Kahn on New Frontiers in Racial Profiling
WEBDec 14, 2022 · In October of this year, police officials in Edmonton, Canada were struggling to solve a 2019 sexual assault case in which a woman was left unconscious and almost fully unclothed in minus 16-degree Fahrenheit weather.
For Some Survivors, Polio Casts a Long Shadow - Undark Magazine
WEBJan 2, 2023 · I had polio at 8 yrs of age in summer of 1948. Paralyzed from neck down. Yeah long recoup; Sister Kenny method of rehab used. Ran track, ice scared, on cue basketball team in high school.
How the Brain and Body Work Together to Create Thinking
WEBJun 28, 2019 · S uppose I give you the name of a body part, and ask you to list its main uses: I say legs, you say walking and running; I say ears, you say hearing. And if I say the brain? Well, that’s a no-brainer (so to speak); obviously the brain is for thinking. Of course, it does a bunch of other things, too; after all, when the brain ceases to function, we die — but clearly it’s where cognition ...
In Cape Cod, New Efforts to Coexist With Sharks - Undark Magazine
WEBJul 7, 2021 · O n a windy morning in March, two older surfers at LeCount Hollow Beach, on Cape Cod, look out at the gray Atlantic. They are scanning the water closest to shore for seals, with whom they increasingly have to share the frigid water, which can dip as low as 37 degrees Fahrenheit in winter.
In Colorado, Locals Question a Survey for Critical Minerals
WEBNov 8, 2021 · E arth MRI began with a late 2017 executive order from the Trump administration to create a federal strategy for critical mineral supplies. Soon after, the Department of the Interior identified 35 such minerals or mineral groups. The U.S. relies entirely on other countries for 14 of these minerals, and is at least 50 percent dependent for an additional 16.
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
WEBAug 26, 2024 · A bout three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an unprecedented health care crisis.
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
WEBDec 12, 2022 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought together journalists, science historians, and other ...
Opinion: How the Bernese Took a Stand for Their Bears - Undark …
WEBJun 25, 2020 · T he Bärengraben, or bear pit in Bern, Switzerland, rests beneath a rose garden, at the foot of Nydegg bridge. It abuts the mint green Aare River, which swoops in a horseshoe bend around the city’s medieval Old Town.When I first visited it as a 6-year-old, 24 years ago, it was little more than a drab fortified pit, roughly 108 feet wide and 11.5 feet deep, inhabited by 12 bears.
Wood-burning Stoves Raise New Health Concerns - Undark …
WEBMar 2, 2022 · Maybe the author should spend more time investigating why three medica-grade air filters can’t keep the air in her home purified! For Pete’s sake – maybe the author should inquire about the health of the neighbor who obviously is on the doorstep of death since he would be in such danger vs the woodstove-phobic “victim” neighbor This reeks of man-made catastrophe created out of a non ...
What Can Body Language Analysis Really Tell Us? - Undark …
WEBOct 7, 2020 · M odern research on body language — often called nonverbal behavior — began in the 1960s and ‘70s with studies that aimed to demonstrate the universality of facial expressions of emotion. That work was inspired, in part, by Charles Darwin’s neglected study from a century earlier, “The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals,” according to David Matsumoto, a San Francisco State ...