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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Why a Hospital Might Shun a Black Patient (Op-Ed)

Amol S. Navathe and Harald Schmidt are assistant professors of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s time to fix payment models that don’t address Covid-19’

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  • October 9, 2020

White Male Prof Allegedly Posed as Woman of Color to Bully Women

Kelly Weill Published Oct. 06, 2020 4:45 AM ET The Science Femme, who tweeted from the handle @piney_the, wasn’t any of those things (immigrant, woman of color, female academic), digital sleuths

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

October 5, 2020 by Naomi Coquillon For Hispanic Heritage Month, we are highlighting a few activities and interactive presentations that kids and families can do to honor the cultures

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

The Good Lord Bird’ Review: The Necessity of John Brown

Ethan Hawke plays the wild-eyed abolitionist in Showtime’s adaptation of the award-winning novel by James McBride. “The Good Lord Bird” is based on the James McBride novel about John Brown. E

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Who can be president? According to the movies, it’s still White men

By Shelly Tan Sept. 30, 2020 It’s been 12 years since Barack Obama was elected as the nation’s first Black president and four years since Hillary Clinton became the first major party

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Pope Francis’s new encyclical is a papal warning about a world going backward

By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli Oct. 4, 2020 at 12:58 p.m. EDT ROME — Humankind, Pope Francis says, is in the midst of a worrying regression. People are intensely polariz

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Identify the Different Symptoms of the Flu and Covid-19

With fears of a “twindemic” in the United States this fall, here’s a guide to understanding what’s making you feel terrible. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Oct. 3, 2020 As influenza seas

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Most & Least Federally Dependent States

Federal assistance to states has come into the spotlight recently during the coronavirus pandemic, where some states have received far more money per case than others. For example, in the initial $

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Today’s Brunch: Apple Pear Oven Pancake for 2 (or really just me)

This was one of the first recipes I learned to make. The original popover recipe came from Seventeen Magazine when I was in high school. It has evolved over the years into this. Take one ripe apple

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

First Look: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

By Kyle Buchanan Sept. 30, 2020 Updated 6:19 p.m. ET In the new Netflix adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” it’s a sweat-slicked summer day in Chicago 1927 and everybod

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  • October 9, 2020

Clean Your Appliances

Just a question – when was the last time you cleaned your washing machine and dishwasher? I mean, thoroughly – cleaning gaskets and filters – not just a cycle run with vinegar? If you can’t

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Vegan Mini Pizza

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

$118 vs $14 Brownies

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  • October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

Michelle and Oprah

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  • October 7, 2020October 7, 2020

Tribute to Chadwick Boseman

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NY Times

  • The Iran War Has Diesel Prices Soaring, and Consumers Could Pay the Price
  • Assassination Plot Targeting N.Y.C. Palestinian Activist Is Disrupted
  • In Maine, Many Older Women Prefer Graham Platner for Senate
  • It’s Elon Musk’s World Now
  • Before the LaGuardia Crash, Why Didn’t Truck 1 Stop?

NPR

  • Scientists watch sperm whales work as a team to assist a birth
  • Trump's attacks on offshore wind could hurt infrastructure spending across the economy
  • Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies
  • The oldest known recording of a whale song reveals how oceans have changed
  • This week's Short Wave news roundup

The Progressive

  • The World Cup Needs an ICE Truce
  • Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace
  • Americans Are United Against Trump’s War
  • Our digital lives have hidden costs
  • Address Affordability, Give Farmers a Chance

FactCheck.org

  • Competing Claims on SAVE America Act Disenfranchising Voters
  • Q&A on the SAVE America Act
  • EPA’s Misleading Claim of $1.3 Trillion in Deregulatory ‘Savings’
  • No Broad Autism Approval for Leucovorin, Despite FDA Commissioner’s Prior Suggestions
  • How Iran Blocking the Strait of Hormuz Affects the U.S.

Snopes.com

  • Does this video show 7 dogs in China escaping illegal transport truck, walking home?
  • Did Obamas open $100M 'Humanitarian Hope Center'?
  • Alaska legislator's staffer was indicted on child sex trafficking charges. Here's what happened
  • Beware claim Chuck Schumer's wife owns cleaning business hiring immigrants in US illegally
  • Did Matthew McConaughey host livestream about Epstein files, Bondi and Trump?

Tradeoffs

  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom
  • ‘It Sucks’: Spiking Health Insurance Costs Hit Small Businesses
  • 'We Can’t Afford All These Humans’: A Doctor's Take on AI in Health Care
  • Immigration Enforcement’s Twin Threats to Health Care

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