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- A Medical School Tradition Comes Under Fire For Racism
Mara Gordon, NPR, September 5, 2018
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- Ford's China conundrum: Big profits, bribery allegations
by Rob Schmitz, Marketplace, Friday, April 4, 2014
- How Public Health Advocates Are Trying To Reach Non-Vaccinators
Whooping cough made a comeback in California last year, which researchers have linked to vaccine refusals. And with new measles outbreaks in Southern California, New York and British Columbia, the debate over vaccination is also spreading.
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- Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape A Child's Brain
More than a decade of research on children raised in institutions shows that "neglect is awful for the brain
by Jon Hamilton, February 24, 2014 3:35 AM ET
- What Does Sound Look Like? (2:30)
When light passes between areas of different air density, it bends.
Adam Cole, April 9, 2014
- Why Men Outnumber Women Attending Business Schools (5 min)
New research explores gender disparities in business school enrollment by the different ways men and women appear to process ethical compromise.
(April 9, 2014)
Men more lenient ethically
More likely to tell lie to female than male
Can take advantage of female than male
Men more willing to lie on behalf of buyer than are women - men morally inferior?
Men apply ethical principles egocentrically -
Men willing to include inferior ingredient in a product - infant formula from China - women react more than men?
Women have triple barrier - more plagued by ethics, more targeted for deception
By thinking abt decisions in ethical way they take themselves out of the game
- As La. Coast Recedes, Battle Rages Over Who Should Pay (5:38)
Louisiana's coast is disappearing at the rate of about a football field an hour. Since the 1930s, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed up an area the size of Delaware.
- Drought-Stricken Texas Town Turns To Toilets For Water
by Shelley Kofler, May 06, 2014 3:35 AM ET
Will this help to change awareness and behavior in relation to environmental protection and conservation?
- NPR: 'This Is Going To Be Too Hard': Keeping Kids From Using Pot
'This Is Going To Be Too Hard': Keeping Kids From Using Pot
NPR Weekend Edition, April 19, 2015 8:02 AM ET
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9 short reports on the program and the Department of Veterans Affairs response
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American RadioWorks From American Public Media American Public Media's American RadioWorks creates documentaries, series projects, and investigative reports for the public radio system and the Internet.More from American RadioWorks
- Meet Some Of The Voices From 'Working' Then And Now
For decades, the reel-to-reel recordings of Studs Terkel's original Working interviews were packed away in boxes in his home office; they were still boxed up when Terkel died in 2008. But recently, Radio Diaries and Project& were given access to the recordings, and produced a new series of audio stories, Working Then And Now.
- Outrage Over Arrests At Philly Starbucks Fuels Twitter Conversations (6 min)
Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR Weekend Edition Sunday, April 22, 2018. The arrest of two black men waiting for a friend at a Philadelphia Starbucks has inspired Twitter users to share their stories of how African-Americans are treated in predominantly white spaces.
- Seal Meat, Gold Mining: How Lower-Income Women Are Exposed To Mercury
Greta Jochem, Goats and Soda - Stories of Life in a Changing World, NPR, Oct 3, 2017 ... "Mercury in Women of Childbearing Age in 25 Countries," from IPEN, a nonprofit devoted to issues of global health and toxic chemicals, and Biodiversity Research Institute, an ecology research organization. The groups studied 1,044 women from lower-income countries and found that 42 percent had average mercury levels exceeding the EPA reference dose in their hair samples. The potential harm to the development of the fetal brain is of special concern, says Joseph Graziano, professor of environmental health sciences and pharmacology at Columbia University. "You get just once chance," he says. "When the damage is done, the damage is done and there's no going back."
- 50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat
Camila Domonoske , NPR, September 13, 2016 In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. (Links to the JAMA article are in https://sakai.unc.edu/x/3vIn0E)
- 'Bottle Of Lies' Exposes The Dark Side Of The Generic-Drug Boom
Jonathan Lambert, May 12, 2019
In Bottle of Lies, investigative journalist and author Katherine Eban exposes the dangerous, dark side of some generics. Her propulsive narrative investigation traces the history of the generic-drug boom, revealing how intense demand for cheaper drugs opened a dangerous chasm between what regulations required of drug companies and how some of those companies actually behaved. She also documents how the FDA struggled to address those safety gaps, and the challenges that still remain.
- Bloomberg News Killed Investigation, Fired Reporter, Then Sought To Silence His Wife
David Folkenflik, NPR Morning Edition, April 14, 2020
Six years ago, Bloomberg News killed an investigation into the wealth of Communist Party elites in China, fearful of repercussions by the Chinese government. The company successfully silenced the reporters involved. And it sought to keep the spouse of one of the reporters quiet, too.