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It looks as if conventional wisdom on the Covid vaccines has run head first into some ugly realities. Eric Topol of Scripps, formerly a “Get vaccinated, problem solved” cheerleader, grapples out loud with troubling data about Covid deaths and breakthrough cases with a serious journalist, David Wallace-Wells of New York…
The culture wars have come for the K-12 curriculum. Some of the nations most intellectually robust and culturally diverse English language arts curricula have been accused both of pandering to race and avoiding it. Red-state legislatures and boards of education are banning critical race theory, which teaches how American policy…
UpGrad, a Bangalore-based startup that specializes in higher education and upskilling courses, said on Monday it has raised $185 million in a new financing round that valued it at $1.2 billion. Singapore’s Temasek, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, and IIFL financed the new round, first tranche of it —…
WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For people like Heather Bollin, a 43-year-old woman in Texas engaged to a man who is currently incarcerated, constant surveillance is a fact of life: the three daily phone calls they have together are subject to monitoring by prison officials. We are never able…
August 9, 2021 6 min read This story originally appeared on MarketBeat Interactive games and entertainment producer Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI) stock was recently punished on its Q2 2021 earnings report presenting an opportunity for prudent investors. The Company leadership appears to have their hands full putting out fires dealing…
NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court ruled on Monday that antitrust investigations into business practices of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Walmart’s (WMT.N) Flipkart must continue, in a setback for the two e-commerce giants who had urged the court to put them on hold. The Competition Commission of…
Hiroshima-Nagasaki: The Story They Want Us to Forget By Bruce K. Gagnon, August 08, 2021 The worlds first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the barren plains of the Alamogordo…
Charlotte Nichols and Stuart Bates did not set off at a blistering pace when they began a marathon in Dorset on Sunday but they have a very good excuse. The 26-mile run, starting and finishing on Weymouth beach, was the 101st Olympic event the pair have taken part in over…
Health workers wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they prepare to carry the body of a person, who died from complications related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), for cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi, India, June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo NEW DELHI, Aug 9 (Reuters) – India reported…
States must completely reform policing strategies to reduce racial bias, including no longer using traffic enforcement as a community policing strategy and training law enforcement officers better to reduce the impact of their implicit bias against Blacks and Hispanics, a new report from a crucial national group argues. The Governors…
