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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • October 11, 2020October 11, 2020

The One Name the W.N.B.A. Won’t Say

Players have united to depose a sitting senator in Georgia, who has clashed with the Black Lives Matter movement and is an owner of the Atlanta Dream and one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

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  • October 11, 2020October 11, 2020

Trump and Biden are both courting the votes of Black men. Will it make a difference?

By Donna M. Owens Oct. 5, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. EDT America’s presidential campaigns have a new coveted voter: Black men. Pew found that Black men (77 percent) are less likely than Black wo

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  • October 11, 2020October 11, 2020

My Best Cookbooks of 2020 (so far)

Omari McQueen’s Best Bites Cook Book (due Jan 2021) Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential, Haile Thomas In Bibi’s Kitchen: The Recipes a

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  • 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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NY Times

  • Putin Has No Good Way Out of His War
  • Trump Finds High-Wire Iran Negotiations ‘Very Boring’
  • Minnesota Republicans Hold Moment of Silence for Derek Chauvin
  • The New Zealand Parakeet Pair That Are Saving Their Species
  • Security Council Members Call for Israel to Withdraw From Southern Lebanon
https://youtu.be/-oGdWn0Qz1s?si=xPjgUuiNIlpj9kq5

NPR

  • New research helps explain how human brains are able decode speech so quickly
  • The potential consequences of cutting funds for behavioral science
  • An entomologist ordered a mezcal, and then got curious
  • Experimental pill promises new hope for deadly pancreatic cancer
  • Bean plants call for aerial reinforcements when caterpillars attack
https://youtu.be/43K2pPExXms?si=NbrYUf1m4HPj1xc7

The Progressive

  • How English Teachers and College Faculty Are Navigating AI in Their Classrooms
  • ‘Queer History Is Found Not in Books, But in Bars’
  • Editors’ Note: The Radical Love of Queerness
  • Rideshare Win Could Bring Big Changes
  • Seeing History Through the Lens of Courage
https://youtu.be/6oomXq2Q7Jc?si=94qqOcBIzoYSk2gd

FactCheck.org

  • A Timeline of RFK Jr.’s Mixed Messaging on the Measles Vaccine
  • Trump Distorts Maryland’s Primary Ballot Mix-up to Attack Mail-in Voting
  • RFK Jr.’s Muddled Claims on Drug Approval Speed
  • Ad in Texas GOP Runoff Attacks Cornyn on Immigration, Islam
  • What Will Happen to Gasoline Prices When the Iran War Ends?
https://youtu.be/KU5V5WZVcVE?si=4rbzf6zpzIFXMrLl

Snopes.com

  • Don't fall for claim Trump is selling 'Rump' watches in mid-2026
  • Is Trump spending millions in taxpayer funds to cover horse statues in gold?
  • Were Driscoll's strawberries confirmed to cause cancer? Posts exaggerate pesticide test results
  • 9 claims about Donald Trump Jr. we've researched since the start of his father's 2nd term
  • Did Bill Clinton say Palestinians 'never really wanted a homeland' and 'just wanted to kill the Jews'?
https://youtu.be/QP_i-ZiFwe0?si=Sk4dM2FqidIAtyQH

Tradeoffs

  • A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
  • Republicans Want to Change How You Buy Health Care
  • The U.S. Saved $1 Trillion on Health Care. Why Doesn't It Feel Like It?
  • Call to Mind: The Fifth Branch
  • Doctors Hated the No Surprises Act. Now Some Are Getting Rich Off of It.
https://youtu.be/q6evARV6JE0?si=mrcFzjE5Q3R4zH15

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