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The woman with the ear of the Prime Minister in the pandemic 10 minutes to read Greg Bruce meets Dame Juliet Gerrard, the Prime Minister's chief science advisor. I asked Dame Juliet Gerrard if she ever relies on gut feeling. I said it seemed like gut feeling would have been required a lot in the early days of the pandemic, when we didn't know anything about the virus. She said: "I think scientists call gut feeling 'a hypothesis'." That sounded quite witty for a scientist, so I asked if she'd used that line before. She said she hadn't. She said: "It was a glib answer, but I t...

Children with same-sex parents get higher scores on standardised tests than children with different-sex parents. This is the key finding from our study published today in the journal Demography. We also found children with same-sex parents to be slightly more likely to graduate from high school, and much more likely to enrol in university than children with different-sex parents. Our results challenge common arguments against same-sex parenting, and lend support to other scholarly perspectives that emphasise the benefits of being raised by a same-sex couple. Same-sex parenting remains controv...

My Turn: The necessary conversations about racism Published: 1/17/2021 6:00:05 AM In May 2020, New Hampshire Listens reached a milestone: a decade of work helping New Hampshire residents talk to each other about hard public issues to create communities that work for everyone. Over the years, we have been asked to assist towns, schools, police departments, and community organizations focused on public life. Our staff have facilitated projects in all sectors, addressing a variety of topics – mental health, water sustainability, government efficiency, lead poisoning, community-police relatio...

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