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4Apr

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Looking Through History May Help Explain Why People Of Color Have Been Missing In The Disability Rights Movement

Jennifer Erkulwater is a professor of political science at the University of Richmond. Her scholarship focuses on the politics of poverty, Social Security and disability rights. Below are highlights from an interview with The Conversation. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. Jennifer Erkulwater speaks on her research about people of color and the disability rights movement. What is your research focused on? Erkulwater: My current work involves trying to understand why people of color seem to be missing in debates about disability rights. People of color, especially African Americans, are more likely to report medical impairments than whites, and yet popular media tends to showcase largely white people with disabilities. It’s an absence that’s been critiqued on social media ...

At The Supreme Court – Clarence Thomas And His Wife’s Text Messages Highlight Missing Ethics Rules

22Apr

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POLITICS

At The Supreme Court – Clarence Thomas And His Wife’s Text Messages Highlight Missing Ethics Rules

Time and time again, the nation’s highest court has come under fire for failing to manage potentially unethical behavior by its justices. In the past, the Supreme Court of the United States has cast aside pleas to adopt an ethics code for the justices. Now, the actions of Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Virginia – who pushed the White House to overturn the 2020 presidential election – have once again thrown light onto this long-standing conflict: How accountable should the justices be? No justice In general, ethical behavior by judges in our federal system is governed by the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, which was adopted in 1973. The code applies to federal judges and magistrate judges serving in the courts of appeals, district courts, bankruptcy judges, the Court of Internat...

Preschool Parents Worry Their Kids Are Missing Out On Critical Social Skills During The Pandemic – Not Just ABCs

25Nov

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EDUCATION

Preschool Parents Worry Their Kids Are Missing Out On Critical Social Skills During The Pandemic – Not Just ABCs

As COVID-19 cases once again spike across the country, parents in school districts like New York City and Detroit face another weeks long stretch of remote learning. This often includes preschool parents, whose children range in age from 3 to 6 and are often too young to manage virtual learning on their own. Many of these parents worry their children are missing out on important parts of the preschool experience – particularly opportunities to develop social, emotional and behavioral skills through interactions with teachers and other children. As researchers who study children’s educational development, we know that preschool helps children develop important academic and social skills they will need for later school success. In April, we surveyed 166 parents of preschool children to exa...

The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire

27Jul

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The mystery of the missing portrait of Robert Hooke, 17th-century scientist extraordinaire

Groundbreaking discoveries in science often come with two iconic images, one representing the breakthrough and the other, the discoverer. Known as Mary Beale’s ‘Portrait of a Mathematician,’ could the circa 1680 painting depict Hooke? Mary Beale, CC BY For example, the page from Darwin’s notebook sketching the branching pattern of evolution often accompanies a portrait of Darwin in his early years when the notebook was written. Likewise the drawing of the orbits of the moons of Jupiter often accompanies a portrait of Galileo. Hooke’s famous etching of the tiny magnified cells he saw in a piece of cork. Robert Hooke, Micrographia, 1665/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the brea...

4Apr

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Two charged in death of missing girl found in rubbish

Announcement marks the sorrowful conclusion to a search for the missing girl, a disappearance that gripped Alabama. An undated file photo shows suspect Patrick Devone Stallworth [Birmingham Police Department via AP] Police say they will charge two people with kidnapping and capital murder in the death of a three-year-old Alabama girl whose body was found amid rubbish 10 days after being kidnapped outside a birthday party. According to Smith, police were obtaining murder warrants against two people previously identified as persons of interest in the case: 39-year-old Patrick Devone Stallworth and his 29-year-old girlfriend Derick Irisha Brown. Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith said at a news conference the body of a child, believed to be Kamille Mc...

Solutions to overcome FOMO (fear of missing out)

4Apr

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

Solutions to overcome FOMO (fear of missing out)

FOMO contributes to a person’s dissatisfaction with their own social lives FOMO is a pervasive modern anxiety perpetuated by social media. Noah Webster, in his first “American Dictionary of the English Language” published in 1828, had no reason to include the word. Yet in 2003, MySpace launched and was followed by Facebook in 2004. Thousands of people began sharing posts of daily life. Before 2004 closed, FOMO was a real word defined in the dictionary that still bears Webster’s name as “fear of not being included in something (such as an interesting or enjoyable activity) that others are experiencing.” In an April 2018 report, businessinsider.com expounded ”... FOMO contributes to a person’s dissatisfaction with their own social lives ... It triggers negative feelings like boredom an...

3Apr

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Celebrities Who Are Still Missing Today

With the intense glare of the media spotlight, it sometimes seems as though celebrities are being watched 24 hours a day. We see everything they do and hear everything they say. So it seems impossible that a celebrity could completely vanish and never be seen or heard from again. But that's exactly what happened to these famous people who disappeared — and are still missing today…