From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences By: Jon Keegan and Joel Eastwood What words would you use to […]
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The Great Sleep Divide
The Great Sleep Divide Sleep deficits are robbing poor people and racial minorities of health and earning power. What can be done? By Katherine Ellison Remember the line from that old folk song? If living were a thing that money could buy You know the rich would live and the poor would die. Sadly, […]
Reading the mind with machines
Reading the mind with machines Researchers are developing brain-computer interfaces that would enable communication for people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions that render them unable to speak By Marla Broadfoot In Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel The Count of Monte-Cristo, a character named Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort suffers a terrible stroke that leaves him […]
State Lawmakers and Forced Treatment for Homeless
2023-05-17 State Lawmakers Eye Forced Treatment to Address Overlap in Homelessness and Mental Illness April Dembosky, KQED and Amelia Templeton, Oregon Public Broadcasting and Carrie Feibel Many of the unhoused people in Portland, Oregon, live in tents pitched on sidewalks or in aging campers parked in small convoys behind grocery stores. Mental illness […]
The Company Testing Air in East Palestine Homes Was Hired by Norfolk Southern. Experts Say That Testing Isn’t Enough.
2023-03-14 The Company Testing Air in East Palestine Homes Was Hired by Norfolk Southern. Experts Say That Testing Isn’t Enough. by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Last month, Brenda Foster stood on the railroad tracks […]
How dangerous was the Ohio chemical train derailment? An environmental engineer assesses the long-term risks
2023-02-17 How dangerous was the Ohio chemical train derailment? An environmental engineer assesses the long-term risks Several cars that contained hazardous chemicals burned after the Feb. 3, 2023, derailment. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University Headaches and lingering chemical smells from a fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, have left residents worried […]
New Report Says Nurses at Illinois Facility Forced Patients to Dig Through Their Own Feces
2023-02-15 New Report Says Nurses at Illinois Facility Forced Patients to Dig Through Their Own Feces by Beth Hundsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois, and Molly Parker, Lee Enterprises Midwest ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Culture of […]
California Homeless Crisis
2023-02-10 ‘The Country Is Watching’: California Homeless Crisis Looms as Gov. Newsom Eyes Political Future Angela Hart SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Driving through the industrial outskirts of Sacramento, a stretch of warehouses, wholesale suppliers, truck centers, and auto repair shops northeast of downtown, it’s hard to square California’s $18 billion investment in homeless services […]
The Chemistry of Chocolate
2023-02-08 Chocolate chemistry – a food scientist explains how the beloved treat gets its flavor, texture and tricky reputation as an ingredient Tracey Kusiewicz/Foodie Photography/Moment via Getty Images Sheryl Barringer, The Ohio State University Whether it is enjoyed as creamy milk chocolate truffles, baked in a devilishly dark chocolate cake or even poured as hot cocoa, […]
Pressure Mounts for Hospice Reform
2023-01-26 Pressure Mounts for Hospice Reform by Ava Kofman ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: The Hospice Hustle How a Visionary Movement Became a Plaything for Profiteers Last week, the four largest hospice trade associations […]