This Land Was Promised for Housing. Instead It’s Going to a Pro Soccer Team Owned by a Billionaire. by Mick Dumke, ProPublica; Video by Nick Blumberg, WTTW/Chicago PBS ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When thousands of families […]
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New Research: ADHD Meds Don’t Improve Classroom Learning
2022-06-13 ADHD: Medication alone doesn’t improve classroom learning for children – new research Children with ADHD struggle academically. Upyanose / Getty Images William E. Pelham, Jr., Florida International University For decades, many physicians, parents and teachers have believed that stimulant medications help children with ADHD learn because they are able to focus and behave better when […]
A Fight Over Wolves Pits Facts Against Feelings in Wisconsin
2022-06-08 A Fight Over Wolves Pits Facts Against Feelings in Wisconsin Wolf_Kolmården.jpg: Daniel Mott from Stockholm, Sweden. Source: Wikipedia under Creative Commons License. by Leah Campbell Maybe it was the heat that afternoon in Madison, or maybe it was sheer exhaustion as the meeting approached its sixth hour. Either way, tempers were flaring. The Wisconsin […]
Despite a First-Ever ‘Right-to-Repair’ Law, There’s No Easy Fix for Wheelchair Users
2022-06-05 Despite a First-Ever ‘Right-to-Repair’ Law, There’s No Easy Fix for Wheelchair Users Markian Hawryluk Robin Bolduc isn’t the type of person who takes “no” for an answer — particularly when it comes to fixing her husband’s wheelchair. Her husband, Bruce Goguen, 69, is paralyzed from multiple sclerosis. And without his chair, he […]
‘Desperate Situation’: States Are Housing High-Needs Foster Kids in Offices and Hotels
2022-06-04 ‘Desperate Situation’: States Are Housing High-Needs Foster Kids in Offices and Hotels Sam Whitehead Isela Perez entered the custody of Georgia’s child welfare system at age 10. It happened after her father was deported and her mother left her and her brother alone in their home for two weeks, she said. Perez […]
Talking Books Aid Visually Impaired, Physically Disabled
Talking Books Aid Visually Impaired, Physically Disabled Whether for escape, enlightenment, or pure joy, books allow us to connect to other places and times. Fortunately for the millions of Americans who have impaired vision or a physical disability, there are braille and talking books from NLS. NLS is the National Library Service for the […]
A lifetime of climate change
A lifetime of climate change Researcher Arun Agrawal has lived three decades on either side of a watershed: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, signed 30 years ago this June. His 60 years are a window into how far we have come, and how far there is to go. By Nicola Jones […]
Caskets Wrapped in Colorful Images Pay Tribute to Young Lives Lost to Trauma and Violence
2022-05-24 Caskets Wrapped in Colorful Images Pay Tribute to Young Lives Lost to Trauma and Violence Cemetery workers lower Calyia Stringer’s casket into the ground after the 3-year-old was killed by a stray bullet last year. Her casket featured a custom wrap designed by a local funeral home and Damian Ferek’s company, […]
Baby formula industry was primed for disaster long before key factory closed down
2022-05-24 Baby formula industry was primed for disaster long before key factory closed down Cities are trying to address the baby formula shortage with community drives. AP Photo/David J. Phillip Kevin Ketels, Wayne State University The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure […]
Mapping the brain to understand the mind
Q&A — Neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman Mapping the brain to understand the mind New technology is enabling neuroscientists to make increasingly detailed wiring diagrams that could yield new insights into brain function By Monique Brouillette Neuroscientists have long aspired to understand the intangible properties of the mind. Our most treasured cerebral qualities, like the ability […]