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18Oct

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POLITICS

Facebook Fundraisers: Where Does All That Money Go?

Fake news is not the only thing cropping up on Facebook and other social media sites. Also bogus are some public service messages. Facebook’s fundraising feature, launched in 2017, has resulted in millions raised for numerous charities. Yet, the social media behemoth experienced recently a posted meme that “claimed the social media company was using the contributions its users were making to birthday fundraisers as a tax-deductible write-off for the company,” shared snopes.com on Nov. 6. Facebook has decried the meme message as “completely false,” and the company has maintained that “100% of what’s raised using donate buttons and fundraisers created on Facebook goes to the benefiting nonprofit,” added snopes.com. Perhaps in response or coincidentally, Facebook rolled out new fundraisin...

Where Racial Disparities Are Shrinking Fast … In Prisons

5Dec

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Journalism, SOCIAL JUSTICE

Where Racial Disparities Are Shrinking Fast … In Prisons

A big decrease in the incarceration rate of Black adults may lead to parity in the near future. By Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz is the former creative director at YES!, where she directed artistic and visual components of YES! Magazine, and drove branding across the organization for nearly 15 years. She specializes in infographic research and design, and currently works with The Nation, in addition to YES! She previously worked at The Seattle Times, The Virginian-Pilot, Scripps Howard Newspapers, Rocky Mountain News, The Denver Post, The Connecticut Post, The San Diego Tribune, The Honolulu Advertiser. She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and currently serves on the board of the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial Associa...

Renters Asking: Where Do We Go? Affordable Housing In The US Is Increasingly Scarce

4Apr

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IMPACT, IN OTHER NEWS

Renters Asking: Where Do We Go? Affordable Housing In The US Is Increasingly Scarce

The United States is facing an expanding gap between how much workers earn and how much they have to pay for housing. Workers have faced stagnant wages for the past 40 years. Yet the cost of rent has steadily increased during that time, with sharp increases of 14% to 40% over the past two years. Now, more than ever, workers are feeling the stress of the affordable housing crisis. While I was conducting research in economically hard-hit communities from Appalachia to Oakland, California, for my recent book, published in November 2021, nearly every person I met was experiencing the painful reality of being caught between virtually stagnant wages and rising housing costs. As a sociologist, I had expected that low-wage workers would struggle with the cost of housing. I did not expect to m...

The “21” Club – Where Alfred Hitchcock Was A Regular

25Feb

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CELEBRITIES

The “21” Club – Where Alfred Hitchcock Was A Regular

When one thinks of nightlife prior to World War II, images are conjured of late night haunts serving fare into the wee small hours of the morning and music playing till dawn. Nowhere epitomized being out and about on the town like New York City in the 1930's and '40's. It was a legendary moment in time. After a period of four years probation was repealed, King Kong carried Faye Ray up the side of the Empire State Building, Duke Ellington was performing nightly at the Cotton Club on 125th Street in Harlem, and two resourceful cousins named Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns legitimized a speakeasy at 21 West 52nd Street and christened it The "21" Club. Although "21" had been raided more than once during prohibition, federal agents were never able to pin anything on Jack and Charlie. At t...

New Study Reveals Where And Why 80% Of Fatal E-Scooter Crashes Involve Cars Most Collisions Occur

19Apr

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SOCIETY

New Study Reveals Where And Why 80% Of Fatal E-Scooter Crashes Involve Cars Most Collisions Occur

About 30 people in the United States have been killed riding electric scooters since 2018. Most – 80% – were hit by drivers of cars. Publicly available e-scooters arrived to U.S. cities in 2017 as an energy-efficient and fun new way to get around town. By 2019, e-scooter rides had soared from zero to 88 million trips annually. But putting e-scooter riders on the same roads as cars without good infrastructure or clear rules has been dangerous. Making streets safer will require urban policymakers, not to mention drivers, to understand where and why cars collide with these new vehicles. The few empirical studies on e-scooter safety come from emergency departments in cities where e-scooters launched early, like Los Angeles and Austin. They meticulously describe which injuries occurred and w...

A Cryptocurrency Expert Explains NFTs – How Nonfungible Tokens Work And Where They Get Their Value

3Apr

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BUSINESS, CRYPTOMARKET, TECHNOLOGY

A Cryptocurrency Expert Explains NFTs – How Nonfungible Tokens Work And Where They Get Their Value

Nonfungible tokens prove ownership of a digital item – image, sound file or text – in the same way that people own crypto coins. · Unlike crypto coins, which are identical and worth the same, NFTs are unique. · An NFT is worth what someone is willing to pay for it, which can be a lot if the NFT is made by a famous artist and the buyer is a wealthy collector. An attorney friend recently asked me out of the blue about nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. What prompted his interest was the sale of a collage composed of 5,000 digital pieces, auctioned by Christie’s on March 11, 2021, for a remarkable US$69 million. Mike Winkelmann, an artist known as Beeple, created this piece of digital art, made an NFT of it and offered it for sale. The bidding started at $100, and the rest of the auctioning pr...

Instead Of A Place Where You Can Lose Your Life Savings In A New York Minute – Robinhood App Makes Wall Street Feel Like A Game To Win

3Apr

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BUSINESS, VIDEO REELS

Instead Of A Place Where You Can Lose Your Life Savings In A New York Minute – Robinhood App Makes Wall Street Feel Like A Game To Win

Wall Street has long been likened to a casino. Robinhood, an investment app that just filed plans for an initial public offering, makes the comparison more apt than ever. That’s because the power of the casino is the way it makes people feel like gambling their money away is a game. Casinos are full of mood lighting, fun noises and other sensory details that reward gamblers when they place coins in slots. Similarly, Robinhood’s slick and easy-to-use app resembles a thrill-inducing video game rather than a sober investment tool. The color palette of red and green is associated with mood, with green having a calming effect and red increasing arousal, anger and negative emotions. Picking stocks can seem like a fun lottery of scratching off the winning ticket; celebratory confetti drops from...

Just How Much Greenhouse Gas Is Produced By Growing Cannabis Indoors Depends On Where It’s Grown

4Apr

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ENVIRONMENT

Just How Much Greenhouse Gas Is Produced By Growing Cannabis Indoors Depends On Where It’s Grown

Indoor cannabis production is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental effects vary significantly depending on where it is being grown, according to our new study. Growing cannabis indoors is an energy-intensive process. Plantlady223 via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA The lights used to grow weed indoors use a lot of electricity, but facilities require a lot of energy to maintain a comfortable environment for the plants. That means air conditioners or heaters to maintain proper temperatures. Producers also pump carbon dioxide inside to increase plant growth. This accounts for 11% to 25% of facilities’ greenhouse gas emissions. But the biggest energy use comes from the need to constantly bring fresh air into growing facilities. All of this outside air needs to be tre...

Essential To Keeping Capitalism From Crashing – Wall Street Isn’t Just A Casino Where Traders Can Bet On GameStop And Other Stocks

4Feb

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BUSINESS, IN OTHER NEWS

Essential To Keeping Capitalism From Crashing – Wall Street Isn’t Just A Casino Where Traders Can Bet On GameStop And Other Stocks

Shares of GameStop and other companies or assets that shot up in value in recent weeks are now dropping like stones. While I feel sorry for the many investors who will likely lose a lot of money, the stocks’ return to Earth is actually a good thing – if you want to avoid financial meltdown to the long list of crises the U.S. is facing. The reason has to do with what financial markets are – and what they are not – as well as what happens when prices of stocks and other securities become untethered from the fundamental value of the assets they’re meant to represent. As a finance professor who does research on how markets respond to new information, I believe it is important to maintain a close link between security prices and fundamentals. When that stops happening, a market collapse may b...

A New Model Tells Astronomers Where To Look For More Exoplanets Using 4 Simple Variables – They Are Still Out There

3Apr

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SCIENCE, VIDEO REELS

A New Model Tells Astronomers Where To Look For More Exoplanets Using 4 Simple Variables – They Are Still Out There

Only 12 light years from Earth, Tau Ceti is the closest single star similar to the Sun and an all-time favorite in sci-fi stories. Habitable worlds orbiting Tau Ceti were destinations of fictional starships like “The Expanse”‘s Nauvoo and “Barbarella”’s vessel. “Star Trek”’s Captain Picard also frequented an exotic bar in the system. Now, thanks to a new approach to analyzing nearby planetary systems, we have a deeper understanding of the actual worlds that orbit Tau Ceti and many other nearby stars. Exoplanets – worlds around other stars – have long been staples of science fiction but remained mostly inaccessible to scientific investigations. This all changed over the past decade, when NASA’s Kepler and TESS exoplanet hunter space telescopes added thousands of new planets to the previous...