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/ 8 months ago$50K per year for a degree in a low-wage industry − is culinary school worth it?
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay recently pilloried these institutions for saddling students with debt prior to sending them off into a low-wage...
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/ 8 months agoWhat the Buddhist text Therigatha teaches about women’s enlightenment
The Therigatha, a collection of poems written in Pāli by Buddhist nuns, reveals that women’s enlightenment may not necessarily require renunciation...
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/ 8 months agoFemale mosquitoes rely on one another to choose the best breeding sites − and with the arrival of spring, they’re already on the hunt
Female mosquitoes don’t want to lay their eggs alone, but they don’t want sites that are too crowded either. Understanding what...
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/ 8 months agoHow ghost streams and redlining’s legacy lead to unfairness in flood risk, in Detroit and elsewhere
Mapping where water once flowed is important for managing flood risk today in Detroit and elsewhere.
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/ 8 months agoSupreme Court’s questions about First Amendment cases show support for ‘free trade in ideas’
These cases have asked the justices to consider how to apply some of the most sweeping constitutional protections – those of...
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/ 8 months agoDonor-advised funds: US regulators are scrambling to catch up with the boom in these charitable giving accounts
Big changes would require an act of Congress but lawmakers have not stepped up. And there’s been pushback against new rules...
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/ 8 months agoProfits over patients: For-profit nursing home chains are draining resources from care while shifting huge sums to owners’ pockets
Owners of midsize nursing home chains harm the elderly and drain huge sums of money from facilities using opaque accounting practices...
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/ 8 months agoAs the US government and record labels go after TikTok, musicians get the squeeze
For some musical artists, TikTok has become a beacon in an otherwise dismal digital streaming landscape.
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/ 8 months agoAI vs. elections: 4 essential reads about the threat of high-tech deception in politics
Using disinformation to sway elections is nothing new. Powerful new AI tools, however, threaten to give the deceptions unprecedented reach.
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/ 8 months agoHow do airplanes fly? An aerospace engineer explains the physics of flight
People have been flying airplanes for well over a century. Engineers know how to balance all the forces at play, but...
