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We can’t stop Covid-19 from spreading without understanding the people who carry it. Why do so many people embrace Covid-19 misinformation? Does lack of health insurance discourage people from getting tested, even when testing is free? And what prevented doctors in Italy from sharing what they learned about oxygen levels, even though it could help predict which Covid patients were at the highest risk of dying? Four faculty members in the School of History and Sociology (HSOC) at Georgia Tech ...

“Completed ‘under the difficult conditions created by the pandemic’ (xiii) the 2020 edition of the Socialist Register seeks to ‘analyze the nature of digital capitalism and its contradictions’ (ix), doing so ‘within the history of technological change’ (x). In selecting this topic, the late Leo Panitch and Greg Albo’s goal was to highlight the extent to which ‘digital technology has become integral to capitalist market dystopia’ (ix), a necessary task given the prevalence o...

USDA May Allow Genetically Modified Trees to Be Released Into the Wild (Image by Stock File) A genetically engineered chestnut tree may be the first to spread into forests, setting dangerous global precedents. By Anne Petermann On August 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a petition by researchers at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) seeking federal approval to release thei...

Article continues below advertisement ↴ Peace Wapiti Public School Division (PWPSD) Senior Administration met on Wednesday to begin the process of transitioning schools to remote learning following the announcement from the province that all Kindergarten to Grade 12 students will move to at-home remote learning effective Friday morning, May 7, returning to in-school learning on Tuesday, May 25 following the Victoria Day holiday.  Additional information, provided on Wednesday during a provin...

April 29, 2021 How might the pandemic change social interaction between older adults, shift dynamics for immigrant workers and reshape local housing markets? How do gender disparities in pay vary across industrialized societies? And how quickly should you respond to that late email from a co-worker? Those are some of the research questions Cornell faculty will pursue with the help of more than $271,000 in grants awarded this spring by the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS). The grants fu...

John Munson/Cornell University In partnership with Cayuga Health System and the Tompkins County Health Department, Cornell University hosted a vaccine clinic April 23 in Bartels Hall. Campus clinic eases student access to COVID-19 vaccine April 27, 2021 Lacking a car or bus pass to help her reach local vaccination sites, Caprice Pierre ’21 had planned to wait until returning home to New Jersey after graduation to get a COVID-19 vaccine. But when Cornell offered a clinic on campus ...

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USDA May Allow Genetically Modified Trees to Be Released Into the Wild Green chestnut burrs form on one of the trees at a small chestnut farm in the Heidelberg Township of Pennsylvania, on August 6, 2020. Ben Hasty / MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images By This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. On August 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a petition by researchers at the Sta...

An émigré architectural historian who teaches across disciplines in California, at a public university near Apple’s lair in the Bay Area (close to San Francisco), is posting an essay. Since architectural stories are surprising rare on the edge of the continent, he needed a shtick; no matter what’s his connoisseur-ish personal tastes and leftist political dispositions. Simon  Sadler published an essay on March 13/2013 in The Design Observer Group: “Steve Jobs: Architect” Top: Apple ...

UoN Students Had a Bar Behind My Office - CJ Candidate Complains 13 April 2021 - 10:54 am Prof. Patricia Kameri-Mbote during her interview at the Supreme Court for the position of the Chief Justice on April 13, 2021. Twitter Prof Margaret Kameri- Mbote faced the Judicial Service Commission panel on the second day of interviews for the post of Chief Justice.    In her plenary interview on April 13, Prof Mbote explained that being a woman leader had a number of challenges narrating several e...