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/ 1 year agoBMI alone will no longer be treated as the go-to measure for weight management – an obesity medicine physician explains the seismic shift taking place
Overreliance on BMI as a measure of weight and health has deepened inequities and led to inaccuracies and overgeneralizations.
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/ 1 year agoTaking students to the range to learn about gun culture firsthand
In this course, a gun range becomes a classroom for students to explore their previously held beliefs about firearms.
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/ 1 year agoDo you crush microbes when you step on them?
You can squash small bugs by stepping on them, but can you crush even tinier microorganisms like viruses and bacteria? It...
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/ 1 year agoAsian folktales offer moral lessons that help reduce racial prejudice in children
Children’s books that feature Asian protagonists are rare. Two scholars decided to offer their own in their attempt to reduce racial...
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/ 1 year agoSupreme Court is not committed to a major innovation in transparency it started during the pandemic
The Supreme Court has not yet committed to making livestreaming oral arguments a permanent part of its work. But this measure...
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/ 1 year agoWagner’s mutiny punctured Putin’s ‘strongman’ image and exposed cracks in his rule
Signs of discontent among Russian nationalists and Wagner had been growing before a column of paramilitaries began an aborted march on...
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/ 1 year agoA year after Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Black women still struggle for access to reproductive health care
Even with laws to protect a woman’s right to have an abortion, Black women found it hard to find access to...
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/ 1 year agoDanger, prestige and authenticity draw thrill-seekers to adventure tourism
Advances in technology have allowed tourists to go to places and do things they couldn’t in the past. But in extreme...
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/ 1 year agoJa Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black
America’s veneration of gun ownership is seconded only by its commitment to rendering armed Blacks as an existential danger to the...
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/ 1 year agoTitan submersible disaster underscores dangers of deep-sea exploration – an engineer explains why most ocean science is conducted with crewless submarines
Dramatic improvements in computing, sensors and submersible engineering are making it possible for researchers to ramp up data collection from the...
