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  • The doctor will see you now… on your smartphone

    October 02, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Healthcare in the United Kingdom faces a major shortage of doctors, but innovative mobile applications are addressing this need through offering online video doctor consultations and AI-empowered diagnoses. Comparing the service to other mobile platforms used for taxis and dry cleaning, these medical app designers aim to both cater to modern demands for streamlined delivery services across all sectors, as well as democratize health care for those who lack traditional access.

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  • Welfare and the Underappreciated Value of Long-Term Thinking

    October 01, 2016 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Different states have demanded welfare recipients to work and report their logged hours to a welfare counselor, but this practice can make welfare recipients feel more like a statistic than real people. Ramsey County, Minnesota, has addressed a new way of offering job assistance—by developing skills for job retention, further education, and work planning with the counselors.

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  • How We Think about E-Waste Is in Need of Repair

    October 01, 2016 |

    Anthropocene Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: China

    Electronic waste is becoming an increasing environmental problem around the world. In China this "waste" from old computers and phones is being reused and recycled to fuel new innovation.

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  • New research shows there's one big change when cops wear cameras

    September 29, 2016 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Cameras worn on police uniforms have been lauded as a possible solution to many of the problems facing officers in the line of duty, from violence against law enforcement to the unnecessary use of force. The US Department of Justice recently announced a plan to spend $20 million on body cameras for cops in 32 states. The cameras are controversial, as all surveillance...

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  • With obesity on the rise, NH seniors turn to activity — and technology

    September 29, 2016 |

    New Hampshire Union Leader |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center geriatrician Dr. John Batsis has obtained a $796,500 grant to develop a home-based system of helping obese seniors lose weight, build muscle, and improve their strength using technology, video conferencing and personal coaching.

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  • Grassroots And Grass: How Sacramento Became The Center Of Zero-Energy Housing

    September 29, 2016 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Strong building codes and a culture of energy innovation with roots in California’s cannabis country have quietly made Sacramento and its surrounding cities a model for advanced building practices that could slow its worst effects.

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  • In Arkansas, schools are supposed to teach in English. Here's how one district gets around it.

    September 28, 2016 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, Springdale, Arkansas

    In Springdale, students who speak Marshallese have a hard time performing at school due to their lack of English language comprehension. “Community liaisons” between the children, their parents, and the school became essential in ensuring that there is effective communication between all parties.

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  • Sustainability Pioneers 8: Going Fossil Free

    September 28, 2016 |

    Sustainability Pioneers |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    In Boulder, CO, a group of concerned citizens and the city have been paving the way for the city of Boulder to be free of fossil fuel energy by 2030. Along the way, they are pressuring the state and the utility to go green with them, painting a bigger picture of how the utility industry is responding to climate change.

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  • Healers cure mistrust in Guinea's health system after horrors of Ebola

    September 28, 2016 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Guinea, Kissidougou

    In South Africa, when a person is sick they visit their local healer, but during the Ebola outbreak the healers with little knowledge of the disease often became infected and infected others. So the government in Guinea persuaded healers to receive a health care training and to refer patients to the hospital.

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  • To the Brim: How USC is fighting a stubborn culture of binge drinking

    September 28, 2016 |

    Daily Trojan |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    At the University of Southern California, rates of binge drinking have been on the rise and are now reported as reaching above the national average. To combat this epidemic, the university is offering alternatives to nights out, that aim to create a community and culture around non-drinking.

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