December 14, 2020 | Articles
Rep. Joyce Beatty, #Fight4HER staff, and fellows at the East Coast Summer of HER Summit Summer of HER Summits Against the backdrop of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a national reckoning on race, our virtual Summer of HER program chugged on successfully throughout the summer with our organizers and fellows…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
After four years of fury and frustration at the Trump administration’s attacks on reproductive rights and family planning, advocates have cause to be optimistic in the aftermath of the election. Former Vice President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump to become the 46th President of the United States. Biden has pledged…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Tripling the American Population to Compete With China Is Not Thinking Bigger, It’s Thinking Dumber. What a simpler world this would be if old school economics were our only concern—if we didn’t need to worry about natural resource availability or the earth’s capacity to absorb our various forms of waste.…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by PBS on September 14, 2020 The devastating wildfires tearing across California, Oregon, Washington, and several other Western states are an increasingly familiar scene, as blazes have become larger and more destructive over the past several decades. Seven of the top 10 most destructive fires in California’s history…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Originally published by WIRED on September 14, 2020 Climate change is making wildfires bigger, fiercer, and deadlier, fueling a new kind of despair on the West Coast—and beyond. Grief has settled over the western U.S., along with the thick haze of smoke pouring from dozens of massive wildfires up and…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Researchers at the University of Washington Publish New Population Projections The Lancet published new population projections by researchers at the University of Washington in July, and they are quite a departure from the United Nations projections. According to these new projections, the global population will peak in 2064 at 9.73…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
My iPhone died on Election Day. It was disorienting. I’d grown accustomed—even addicted—to endless micro doses of what passes for reality in these hyperkinetic times. Instead, as final figures trickled in, I followed developments on a device descended from Philo Farnsworth’s image dissector (my television). If there is one thing…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Last year, I traveled with a group of fellow physicians to the Philippines to perform anesthesia for a marathon of surgeries in a region just north of Manila. On numerous occasions while I was preparing to induce anesthesia, our patient would stop me, pull me close to her face, and…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
In a strikingly clear message to those who would erode abortion rights in this nation, nearly 59 percent of Colorado voters struck down a proposed ban on abortions after 22 weeks of gestation. Women and doctors should be making these medical decisions, not politicians. … Women from across the nation…...
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December 14, 2020 | Articles
Never have I been gladder to see a year end—2020 has been a doozy, to put it mildly. A global pandemic, racial unrest more heightened than we’ve seen in decades, and a West Coast set ablaze, in part, by pyrotechnics at a gender reveal celebration. This year has been tragic,…...
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