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Is Star Trek Technology Here Today?
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Is Star Trek Technology Here Today?

When I think of Interrogatory Biofeedback, it reminds me of watching Star Trek when a patient would go to Sick Bay and received a shot. What was in that shot? It sounded like air. Was it knowledge; a type of knowledge that reminds the body how to be well? I think that we can go there with this technology that is available today called Interrogatory Feedback or EDS (electro dermal screening). This system is used to evaluate a client at a custom level based on exactly where the body is physically, mentally and emotionally. Sometimes even a lacking spirit is detected as a cause of an imbalance or illness. Interrogatory Biofeedback uses a query machine which is a communication device. It is not a diagnostic machine nor does the Practitioner diagnose. A Practitioner is using the system in ...
Life In Gangs Today Differs Drastically From When The ‘West Side Story’ Jets And Sharks Ruled The Streets
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Life In Gangs Today Differs Drastically From When The ‘West Side Story’ Jets And Sharks Ruled The Streets

The songs are timeless, the casting contemporary and dance routines still daring. But for social scientists like us, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 hit musical “West Side Story” – a film about two rival street gangs – is more than a 21st-century face-lift of a Broadway classic. Released in theaters on Dec. 10, 2021, it is an opportunity to consider societal changes in the six decades since Maria and Tony stole the hearts of audiences across the world – particularly in the world of gangs. As scholars who have studied gang culture, we find that the soul of the street gang hasn’t changed much since the days of the Jets and the Sharks – but the world around them has. Demographics, economics, technology and public policy have reshaped and reshuffled gang life in America. So dramatic ar...
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois – An Instant Washington Post, USA Today, And Indie Bestseller
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois – An Instant Washington Post, USA Today, And Indie Bestseller

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB SELECTION "Epic…. I was just enraptured by the lineage and the story of this modern African-American family…. A combination of historical and modern story—I’ve never read anything quite like it. It just consumed me." — Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Book Club Pick Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • An Indie Next Pick • A New York Times Book Everyone Will Be Talking About • A People 5 Best Books of the Summer • A Good Morning America 15 Summer Book Club Picks • An Essence Best Book of the Summer • A Time 11 Best Books of the Month • A Washington Post 10 Books of the Month • A CNN Best Book of the Month • A Ms. Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Goodreads Most ...
Decades Before Today’s Political Battles Over Access To Health Care – Trans Kids In The US Were Seeking Treatment
LGBTQ

Decades Before Today’s Political Battles Over Access To Health Care – Trans Kids In The US Were Seeking Treatment

In 1942, a 17-year-old transgender girl named Lane visited a doctor in her Missouri hometown with her parents. Lane had known that she was a girl from a very young age, but fights with her parents over her transness had made it difficult for her to live comfortably and openly during her childhood. She had dropped out of high school and she was determined to get out of Missouri as soon as she was old enough to pursue a career as a dancer. The doctor reportedly found “a large portion of circulating female hormone” in her body during his examination and suggested to Lane’s parents that he undertake an exploratory laparotomy – a surgery in which he would probe her internal organs in order to find out more about her endocrine system. But the appointment ended abruptly after her father refused ...
Lifting Children Out Of Poverty Today Will Help Them Tomorrow
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Lifting Children Out Of Poverty Today Will Help Them Tomorrow

As part of the latest COVID-19 relief package, the federal government has expanded the child tax credit and made it available to all families with children except those with the highest incomes. Families will get US$3,000 per kid ages 6 to 17, and $3,600 for younger children. The Internal Revenue Service will deliver half of this money as monthly payments of either $250 or $300 during the second half of 2021 and the rest as a lump sum during the 2022 tax season. If the government extends this benefit beyond the one year that’s currently funded, as many members of Congress and the Biden administration would like, this policy has the potential to dramatically cut child poverty by as much as 50%. This kind of arrangement is already the norm in many countries, such as Canada, Germany and the...
The Need For Reparations Today – What Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Connections To Slavery Reveal
CULTURE

The Need For Reparations Today – What Alexander Hamilton’s Deep Connections To Slavery Reveal

Alexander Hamilton has received a resurgence of interest in recent years on the back of the smash Broadway musical bearing his name. But alongside tales of his role in the Revolutionary War and in forging the early United States, the spotlight has also fallen on a less savory aspect of his life: his apparent complicity in the institution of slavery. Despite being a founding member of the New York Manumission Society, which sought gradual emancipation of New York’s enslaved population, Hamilton benefited from slavery – both personally and by association. As a historian of early America and Northern slavery, I study how Colonial-era figures like Hamilton fit into America’s long history of enslavement, and how slavery fueled networks of power that have lasted through the ages. A life entwin...