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Dec 10, 2024 | 
medicalxpress.com | Jason Pohl
It wasn't that long ago when cigarettes and soda were go-to convenience store vices, glamorized in movies and marketed toward, well, everyone. Then, lawmakers and voters raised taxes on cigarettes, and millions of dollars went into public education campaigns about smoking's harms. Decades of news coverage chronicled how addictive and dangerous cigarettes were and the enormous steps companies took to hide the risks and hook more users.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Jason Pohl
TRUTH DECAYTo Make Children Better Fact-Checkers, Expose Them to More Misinformation — with OversightPublished 16 October 2024“We need to give children experience flexing these skepticism muscles and using these critical thinking skills within this online context,” a psychology researcher said.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jason Pohl
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
phys.org | Jason Pohl
Income and wealth inequality in the U.S. remain near all-time highs. Analysts say this disparity is a "major issue of our time." Experts have spotlighted deep policy failures fueling the problem and helpful economic fixes to alleviate the suffering.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
universityofcalifornia.edu | Scott Byram |Jason Pohl
“It just started to make sense to me that it actually had a different purpose than some of the other tools,” Byram said. “Unlike some of the notched arrowheads, it was a more substantial weapon. And it was probably also used defensively.”Conversations around a campfire early in the pandemic between Jun, a zooarchaeologist who learned from local communities during his time in Africa, and Kent Lightfoot, a Berkeley anthropology professor emeritus, prompted them to dig into the mystery.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
ancient-origins.net | Scott Byram |Jason Pohl
Jason Pohl/UC BerkeleyWhile the dominant narrative and popular culture view Clovis points and tipped spears as a throwing weapon, UC Berkeley researchers say these tools may have actually been designed to be braced against the ground as a pike during a confrontation with megafauna. How did early humans use sharpened rocks to bring down megafauna 13,000 years ago? Did they throw spears tipped with carefully crafted, razor-sharp rocks called Clovis points?
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
phys.org | Jason Pohl
Every now and then, a scholar's niche expertise lines up with a cultural or political moment and finds an audience hungry for the details. Nicole Holliday is having one of those moments.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
ucdavis.edu | Jason Pohl
In 2016, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to deport thousands of immigrants. His anti-immigration message vilified foreign-born people living in the U.S. as criminals and rapists. Besides making good on many harsh, immigration-related promises, the years after his election stoked the anxieties of millions of people.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
phys.org | Jason Pohl
More than 100,000 oil and gas wells across the western U.S. are in areas burned by wildfires in recent decades, a new study has found, and some 3 million people live next to wells that in the future could be in the path of fires worsened by climate change.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
onmenews.com | Jason Pohl
"We're reconstructing history here," William Carter said of his geography Ph.D. research and collaboration with UC Berkeley's Disabled Students' ProgramWilliam Carter was in a National Archives reading room in the United Kingdom staring at a box of tattered pages covered in cursive writing, sea water stains and smears of blood. It smelled musty, and his hands became smudged turning the soot-covered pages.
