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  • Kids in Detroit talk about school, parents and sex

    November 21, 2016 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Kids in Detroit are discouraged by their city because they feel like the violence, lack of books, lack of state test preparation, and lack of sex-ed affect their opportunities. But the same kids have ideas about ways to improve the city.

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  • How Forensics Are Boosting the Battle Against the Wildlife Trade

    November 08, 2016 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Mombasa

    In recent years, advances in technologies such as genetics testing, forensic sciences, and online database management have allowed governments and organizations to tackle poaching and the illegal trade of wildlife at a whole new level. Where before law enforcement generally focused on capturing poachers and traders red-handed - usually resulting in the arrest of players low down on the chain - technology is helping investigators target the ringleaders and instigate preventative, rather than reactionary, measures.

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  • Failure: the surprising fuel in Israel's startup engine

    November 07, 2016 |

    Israel21c |

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    Response Location: Israel

    Business people are beginning to see failure as a necessary way to learn. Entrepreneurs in Israel use their mistakes to learn from them and help guide them in the future.

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  • Estonia ditches paper with model e-governance services

    October 28, 2016 |

    Kyiv Post |

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    Response Location: Estonia

    Through the Estonian government's e-services, which include digital options for voting, paying taxes, storing identification, and more, the country saved roughly €280 million over the span of a decade thanks to the lower cost of collecting digital signatures.

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  • Silo-Busting Data Analytics Help Mass. Cities Tackle Vacant Properties

    October 14, 2016 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    To combat blight and vacancies, the Innovation Field Lab at Harvard is leading a project in which graduate students are creating solutions to these all too common problems for urban areas. Specifically, CityNexus is a tool that allows city information to be shared among government departments. This allows local leaders to easily centralize data, better understand problems, and more effectively track their progress.

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  • How a 27-Year-Old College Dropout Is Simplifying Health Care

    October 13, 2016 |

    Fortune |

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    Response Location: United States

    Navigating the health care industry can be difficult, especially when care is unexpectedly necessary and seeking treatment is reactive instead of proactive. Rally Health, a digital health company, is trying to change this phenomenon by creating better efficiency and patient engagement.

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  • Ethical arguments won't end factory farming. Technology might.

    October 11, 2016 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Bruce Friedrich, the Executive Director of The Good Food Institute in Washington, DC, thinks that we're wasting resources raising animals for food products. He thinks the answer is creating a product that doesn't replace meat, but rather competes with it.

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  • Getting Tried as an Adult Depends on Skin Color

    October 10, 2016 |

    WNYC |

    Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    Many minors, especially those who are black or hispanic, are tried and sentenced as adults. A new New Jersey law requires minors to at least begin their sentence in juvenile facilities, but there are still problems.

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  • This doctor pioneered a way to treat stress in children, a startling source of future disease

    October 06, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Dr. Nadine Burke Harris noticed an unusually high rate of illnesses in young patients frequenting her San Francisco clinic, and began to dig into the strong correlation between stress factors like poverty and abuse to the rising public health crises of what is known as "toxic stress" in children. Her work helped lead a growing, nationwide movement of treating physical health by addressing emotional trauma, in schools and law enforcement as well as clinics, offering children better support and evolving policies to address mental health.

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  • When parents of people with disabilities reach the breaking point

    October 05, 2016 |

    Daily Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Lisle, Illinois

    Part 1 of the Caregivers Crisis series: As parents of adults with disabilities face their own struggles with aging, health, and mobility they often find themselves at the frayed end of their resources. The Parent Support Project brings these parents together to provide counseling, information on resources, financial counseling, moral support, and renewed energy to keep moving forward with their lives.

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