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Why Air Pollution Increases Amount Of Heart Attacks And Strokes

Air pollution increases exposure to a radioactive gas that triggers heart attacks and strokes, according to new research from Harvard. It contains colorless and odorless radon which is also the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers.

Zenger

California fault zone could trigger devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake, says study

The Palos Verdes fault zone runs 70 miles along the coast of Los Angeles

The Independent UK

When The Skies Went Dark: Historians Pinpoint The Very ‘worst Year’ Ever To Be Alive

Just 18 months prior, you were a hard-working farmer gearing up for another bountiful crop season. But then the skies went dark.

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Harvard vs. Cornell, live stream, preview, TV channel, time, how to watch college football

The Harvard Crimson Tide will meet the Cornell Red Raiders in Ivy League action on Friday night from Schoellkopf Field.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The US inflation bonanza for sovereign debtors

As developing countries confront a new era of elevated inflation, rising interest rates, a stronger dollar, and capital outflows, some governments stand to benefit from a little-noticed bonanza. During the "Great Moderation" that preceded the Covid-19 pandemic, years of low inflation led to the growth of sovereign debt issued at…

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‘She could have done so much good in this world’: victims of the Kabul blast remembered

Relatives and friends of young women killed by a suicide bomber at an education centre in Afghanistan last week write about their loved ones

The Guardian - UK

The U.S. Imprisoned a Civil Rights Leader on Bogus Charges in 1917. Will Biden Pardon Her Now?

A new petition seeks a posthumous pardon for Callie House.

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Ketamine enables more positive thoughts – that’s why it’s a life saver

The reason why ketamine is so rapid in its relief of severe depression is because it makes us focus more on positive information.

The New Daily

To foster real change universities need to stand beside Black professors, not condemn them

The past couple of weeks have seen wall to wall coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s death. Many media outlets took to eulogizing the Queen with effusive praise of her service and duty. But not everyone saw her and the insitution she headed in the same light.

The Conversation

Giving Yale Law School The Heave-Ho

Another way to understand the boycott of YLS grads.

Reason

Here are the major cases before the Supreme Court this fall

WASHINGTON — Here's a look at some of the major cases to be heard by the Supreme Court in the term beginning Oct. 3.

Los Angeles Times

Joined by first Black woman on Supreme Court, justices to tackle affirmative action, voting rights

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opens a historic term Monday by welcoming its first Black woman to the bench as it faces challenges to past liberal rulings on race, affirmative action and voting rights.

Los Angeles Times

Psychedelics researchers balance trippyness with scientific rigor after history of legal and cultural controversy – podcast

As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year nearly total freeze on psychedelics research.

The Conversation

The Fight To Stop Research Into a Cheap, Effective Backup Plan for Climate Change

Why are activists trying to stop research into a promising backup plan to handle climate change?

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Saul Kripke obituary

Influential American philosopher whose 1980 book Naming and Necessity challenged ideas about the identity of mind and brain

Salon

Can Larry Summers please shut up now?

Former Harvard president has been playing inflation Cassandra on TV for months. Can we hear other views?

France 24

Is the Covid-19 pandemic ‘over’? Biden’s bold declaration raises questions

US President Joe Biden and WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus both recently expressed optimism that the Covid-19 crisis may be drawing to an end. But is the pandemic really a thing of the past?

The Conversation

Cancer in the under 50s is rising, globally – why?

We know what we need to do to reduce our risk of getting cancer, right? Wear SPF, stop smoking, avoid processed foods, keep fit, lose weight and get enough sleep. But what if much of what causes cancer has already happened in our early years, or worse still, before we…

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Commentary: Are the US News college rankings a joke?

I didn’t go to an Ivy League college. In fact, I never even thought of applying, and you probably didn’t either.

Tribune News Service

Eduardo Porter: Deliver students from debt by investing in state schools

President Joe Biden is going to spend several hundred billion dollars to cancel the debts of millions of college students. This big outlay will probably bolster his standing among graduates in the up-to-$125,000-a-year salary range who populate the deep-blue voting grounds of urban America.

Axios

Brian Stelter heads to Harvard while he figures out next gig

Stelter will convene discussions about threats to democracy — and possible responses by the media.

The New Daily

People in psychological distress at greater risk of ‘long COVID’

Harvard researchers say people with psychological distress before catching COVID-19 are significantly more likely to develop 'long COVID'.

Al Jazeera

The tiny murder scenes of forensic scientist Frances Glessner Lee

Lee was a diorama-maker, criminal investigation educator and the first female police captain in the US.

Evening Standard

The many faces of Natalie Portman

The Oscar-winner and Dior Beauty ambassador talks to Richard Godwin about her hopes for the next generation, moonlighting on a hit Aussie cartoon and challenging the norms of the female body

Evening Standard

‘The shelf-life of a beetroot’: how Kwasi Kwarteng lasted just 38 days as Chancellor

As Liz Truss sacks her right-hand man less than six weeks into the job, Katie Strick charts the rise and fall of the man in charge of last month’s “disastrous” mini-budget

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