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Jul 9, 2024 | 
slate.com | Teresa Carr
Skip to the content Science This story was originally published by Undark and has been republished here with permission. Last December, a joint survey by the Economist and the polling organization YouGov claimed to reveal a striking antisemitic streak among America’s youth. One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth, according to the poll. And 28 percent think Jews in America have too much power.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
arstechnica.com | Teresa Carr
Last December, a joint survey by The Economist and the polling organization YouGov claimed to reveal a striking antisemitic streak among America’s youth. One in five young Americans thinks the Holocaust is a myth, according to the poll. And 28 percent think Jews in America have too much power. “Our new poll makes alarming reading,” declared The Economist. The results inflamed discourse over the Israel-Hamas war on social media and made international news.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
worldcrunch.com | Teresa Carr |Anne-Sophie Goninet |Rozena Crossman |Jane Herbelin
For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; museums and universities maintain entire departments devoted to classifying specimens. For the latest news & views from every corner of the world, Worldcrunch Today is the only truly international newsletter. Sign up here. But there exists no single, unified list of all the species on Earth.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
popsci.com | Teresa Carr
This article was originally featured on Undark. For centuries, taxonomists have cataloged every living thing they could find. Expeditions have traveled the globe, searching for unknown species; museums and universities maintain entire departments devoted to classifying specimens. But there exists no single, unified list of all the species on Earth. The lack of consistency in taxonomy has always bothered Stephen Garnett.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | Teresa Carr
In the summer of 2017, when communication professor Jeffery Gentry moved from Oklahoma to accept a position at Eastern New Mexico University, he was pleasantly surprised to find it easier to get up in the morning. The difference, he realized, was early morning light. On September mornings in Portales, New Mexico, Gentry rose with the sun at around 6:30 a.m., but at that time of day in Oklahoma, it was still dark.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
popsci.com | Teresa Carr
This article was originally featured on Undark. A couple years ago, Aggie Steiner and Simran Singh were having lunch with other medical students, all women, at Western Michigan University when the group started swapping horror stories about intrauterine devices, or IUDs. The roughly quarter-sized, T-shaped contraceptive device sits in the uterus, where it prevents pregnancies with close to 100 percent effectiveness for years.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
popsci.com | Teresa Carr
SHARE This article was originally featured on Undark. It started with a Google search for prescription medications I might get online. Almost immediately, ads from telehealth companies began chasing me around the internet, promising access to drugs to make me prettier, skinnier, happier, and hornier. Several of these companies sell anti-aging creams. While decidedly pro-aging, I don’t love the visible effects of my sun-soaked youth. “Sure,” I thought.
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Jul 13, 2023 | 
salon.com | Teresa Carr
More than 100 families of children with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are suing companies that market acetaminophen, the pain reliever in Tylenol and an array of other medications. Tylenol-maker Johnson & Johnson, as well as major retailers that use acetaminophen in their store-brand products, knew about research linking prenatal use of acetaminophen to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, the families claim, and should have included warnings on product labels.
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Jul 12, 2023 | 
spectrumnews.org | Teresa Carr
In the end, neither did the FDA. In 2018, the agency brought the issue before its Medical Policy and Program Review Council, which provides oversight and direction of policies. The council found the available data didn’t warrant changes on acetaminophen labels or updates to the existing safety communication, wrote FDA press officer Charlie Kohler in an email to Undark.
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Jul 10, 2023 | 
undark.org | Teresa Carr
More than 100 families of children with autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are suing companies that market acetaminophen, the pain reliever in Tylenol and an array of other medications. Tylenol-maker Johnson & Johnson, as well as major retailers that use acetaminophen in their store-brand products, knew about research linking prenatal use of acetaminophen to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, the families claim, and should have included warnings on product labels.
