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2022-05-23 High-Tech’s Business Model Hasn’t Worked for the Cue Covid Test Eric Taub “I’ve got this,” coos Gal Gadot in Cue Health’s Super Bowl TV commercial. Cue hired the “Wonder Woman” actress to be the voice of the company’s new high-tech covid-19 testing device. The ad pushes the notion that the at-home covid test produces […]
2022-05-23 Book Review: An Urgent Plea to Save the World’s Megaforests By M.R. O’Connor The first peer-reviewed map of the world’s megaforests was the result of an improbable collaboration between the Swedish furniture maker Ikea and the environmental activist organization Greenpeace. They were thrust together following the collapse of the Soviet Union, when Russia’s forests […]
2022-05-22 Bison Pastrami, Anyone? Preschool Assistant Makes Sure Kids Get to Know Indigenous Foods Ariel Gans and Katherine Huggins MINNEAPOLIS — Bison pastrami is not typical school lunch fare, but it’s a crowd favorite at a preschool in Minneapolis. Fawn Youngbear-Tibbetts — the seemingly always on-the-go coordinator of Indigenous foods at the Wicoie […]
We feel, and studies suggest, that cooking can be a form of therapy for many. On Sunday, we post recipes for those looking for new ways to diversify their cookbooks (we do not get paid for this). —Editorial Team. Dine Outdoors with Delicious Plant-Forward Dishes (Family Features) As rays of […]
2022-05-21 This Rural, Red Southern County Was a Vaccine Success Story. Not Anymore. Brett Kelman May 19, 2022 MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. — At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place. A small county northeast of Chattanooga, along the twisting banks of Chickamauga Lake, for much […]
Response Paper on “Anatomy of an Epidemic” by Bob Fancher In his paper “Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of mental iIllness in America by Robert Whitaker,” Bob Fancher analyzes the rising psychiatric industry in America . He looks at whether or not the prescription of […]
Medisuggestion – The Efficient Combination of Meditation and Autosuggestion For those who know how to use them, meditation and autosuggestion are efficient tools for influencing the mind and body. They are comprised of various techniques that impact the subconscious, and which partially overlap. This article shall analyze the option of combining the […]
Owning and interacting with pets, according to studies, can be a form of therapy for many. We have dedicated Saturday to dogs and Wednesday to cats, when we will post an article on each of those days. We will also post articles on occasion about other animals people may have as pets. – […]
2022-05-20 States Have Yet to Spend Hundreds of Millions of Federal Dollars to Tackle Covid Health Disparities Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Lauren Weber and Sam Whitehead The Biden administration in March 2021 announced it was investing $2.25 billion to address covid health disparities, the largest federal funding initiative designed specifically to […]
Book Review: The Toxic Legacy of DDT by Andru Okun In 1945, Rachel Carson, then a marine biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, developed an interest in DDT, a powerful pesticide used to eliminate insects that destroy crops and carry disease. A decade and a half later, “Silent Spring” was released, a book […]