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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The lack of meaningful action to tackle Britain's cold homes over the last decade has intensified existing inequalities—with many millions of households now at the point of crisis, finds a new report from the UCL Institute of Health Equity (UCL IHE). Produced as a follow-up to the 2011 report, The Health Impacts of…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patents and the protection of inventor rights have occupied a key place in American law and policy since the earliest days of the country. When the United States Constitution was ratified in 1788, it included what's now known as the Intellectual Property Clause, and for centuries the ostensible driver of patent law has been to foster innovation. But what happens when inequities in patent law…

Taraji P. Henson, who launched her acting career in the late Nineties, landed an Oscar nomination in 2009 for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and earned legions of fans by playing Cookie Lyon on Empire, spoke out about how demoralizing the pay structure in Hollywood can be in a new interview. When Gayle King asked the actress why she would consider giving up acting, as she told Elle last month, the actress, who plays Shug Avery in the new musical adaptation of The Color Purple, broke down in tears. “I’m just…

CLIMATEWIRE | Devastating floods and landslides triggered by extreme downpours killed hundreds of people in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in May, when some areas saw more than 7 inches of rain in a day. Climate change is intensifying rainstorms throughout much of the world, yet scientists haven't been able to show that the event was influenced by warming. That’s because they don’t have enough data to investigate it. Weather stations are sparse across Africa, making it hard for researchers to collect daily…

The locations of the journals and their editors-in-chief were found to be concentrated in just a few parts of the world – exactly the same ones with the best outcomes in peer review. Credit: Michigan State University Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program Scientists' careers are defined by their contributions to the peer-reviewed literature. Yet, a study just out in Nature Ecology & Evolution by Michigan State University…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For the past half-century, school choice initiatives have been intensifying across the globe. Choice policies emphasize school competition and increasing families' opportunities to select among academic programs. Some research suggests parents who can and do choose alternate programs for their…

In 2011, DTE Energy Company removed 1,200 streetlights from the city of Highland Park, Michigan. A Black working-class suburb of Detroit that was once a boom town for the automotive industry, Highland Park was on the verge of bankruptcy. Unable to pay DTE the $4 million it was owed, the city went dark.The streetlights were removed as part of an agreement between DTE and city leaders to pay the debt. Literally without light, residents were left to find a solution. In the weeks and months following the decision,…

Black people continue to be a group with one of the highest risks of COVID infection in the U.S. But from city to city, this disparity has emerged at different times in the pandemic and has taken on different forms. Take Allegheny County, Pa., where Pittsburgh is located. Early in the pandemic, the overall number of infections and hospitalizations, including racial differences, were modest—until they weren’t. Hospitalizations of Black people eventually rose and stayed high, even as the racial disparity in infection rates…

Employees at Activision Blizzard have announced they will conduct a walk out later in the month, claiming the company’s “current healthcare policies do not adequately protect the workers of ABK”. Taking to Twitter, ABK Workers Alliance has announced that the Committee Against Sex and Gender Discrimination has organised a walk out, which will take place on July 21. In light of the United States Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe V. Wade, which protected abortion rights at a federal level, ABK Workers Alliance says it is…

Maria Bocanegra Tejeda awakens as the rising sun lights her room. Her room. In the house her family owns. That fact is still capable of surprising her, so far removed it is from her cousins’ crowded trailer in the crowded mobile home park where she spent nearly half of her 22 years. The night before, she draped her navy graduation robe over the chair near the bed. Her cap lay nearby, its mortarboard top emblazoned with the words:  “Cultura es orgullo. Orgullo es exito.” Culture is pride. Pride is success. The rallying…