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  • Can American Men and Women Ever Really Be Equal?

    September 27, 2018 |

    Time Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Stockholm

    Sweden has a reputation for being one of the most socially-progressive and gender-equal countries in the world. This article breaks down the different policies that Sweden has become so famous for and looks at its myriad of effects on citizens. Author Irin Carmon concludes that this case study tells us that working towards gender equality will be long and arduous and not always perfect, but entirely possible.

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  • Spawning an Intervention

    September 26, 2018 |

    bioGraphic |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Curaçao, Willemstad

    Because of drastic reef declines globally, coral reef restoration efforts have gained support in recent years. To understand how to do it, a hardy band of conservationists in the Caribbean are looking at how corals reproduce. But as these scientists acknowledge, raising corals is challenging and complex. And such restoration is no silver bullet for continual habitat loss, pollution, and ocean acidification.

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  • Is acupuncture a viable alternative to opioids for patients in pain?

    September 26, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Several states are supporting the use of acupuncture to curb pain and opioid reliance, despite inconclusive scientific evidence of its efficacy. Chronic pain sufferers who experience relief from acupuncture say they don't need scientific evidence to know the procedure helps. As the death toll of the opioid epidemic continues to rise, an increasing number of states are considering covering the treatment.

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  • Operation Ceasefire: Inside a Community's Radical Approach to Gang Violence

    September 26, 2018 |

    Retro Report |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Operation Ceasefire, known as the “Boston miracle,” abandoned traditional policing’s responses to street violence, which caused severe racial tensions, and created a community coalition that used a carrot-and-stick model of targeting people at risk of suffering or committing violence, threatening them with punishment but offering instead social services if they put their guns down. After dramatically reducing violence in Boston in the early 1990s, it spread nationwide. But this highly targeted enforcement method can fail when it isn’t done by the book or sustained over a long period.

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  • Back from the brink: the global effort to save coral from climate change

    September 26, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    As climate change worsens, species such as coral reefs have been impacted at a detrimental rate. As the reefs begin to die off, so do the species that rely on them. In Florida, however, scientists have found success by replanting corals on fibreglass and PVC trees.

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  • Smart Stimulation for People with Dementia

    September 25, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: England

    Jelly drops, board games, and a box that projects interactive images and is sensitive to movement, are all examples if products being created to help people with dementia. “She enjoys that rather than being at home and watching T.V.” Some of them, like the “Tovertafel” or “Magic Table” have shown to decrease apathy levels in people that have dementia.

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  • Solving America's painkiller paradox

    September 25, 2018 |

    Vox |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In a recent study, doctors who were told one of their patients had died prescribed 10% fewer opiates than doctors in a control group. The letters came with recommendations from the CDC for not overprescribing painkillers.

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  • LA seniors find housing solution with home share program

    September 25, 2018 |

    KCRW |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, seniors finding themselves unable to pay rising rents on fixed incomes and those attempting to age in place in need of some extra help are being paired together in a new home share program. Organizations that help develop pairing are growing in the area as needs increase, but it isn't always the best solution for everyone.

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  • England has more than 200,000 empty homes. How to revive them?

    September 25, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Stockton-on-Tees

    There are an estimated over 200,000 vacant homes across England, and Community Campus 87 is one group attempting to bring those homes back to life. By employing apprentices, some who have experienced homelessness, to learn skills such as house painting, the social enterprise is helping homes as well as homeless people bounce back. This is just one example of a handful of social enterprises that are funding the rebuilding of vacant properties with the goal of filling the old homes with more affordable and sustainable housing.

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  • Forget autonomous cars — rural Japan is betting on self-driving buses

    September 25, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Japan

    Japan is taking major steps to putting autonomous buses on the roads in rural areas because there is a need for reliable transportation and not enough funding as more young people move to the cities. It has the potential to save labor costs and provide more reliable transportation options while delivering necessary data to companies looking to expand driverless technology. However, this also requires more detailed mapping, which is often not available for smaller and more rural roads.

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