Month: April 2022

Early tests have been promising, but issues involving bias, privacy and mistrust of “black box” algorithms are possible pitfalls. View original article Contributor: Ingrid K. Williams

Susan Cain’s new book examines how sadness makes us whole. View original article Contributor: Pilar Guzmán

Several common educational strategies lean into the idea that, in the classroom, challenge is something to embrace. View original article Contributor: Jenny Anderson

(GENEVA, Switzerland) — The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year. The World Health Organization, about six … Read more

If Vladimir Putin hadn’t ordered an invasion of Ukraine, the headline-making story right now would be the intensifying war between China and COVID-19. In Shanghai (pop. around 26 million), state officials announced on March 27 that the eastern half of the city would be locked down until April 1 for mass COVID-19 testing. When that’s accomplished, the … Read more

The re-evaluation is the first step to modernizing the C.D.C. for the future. View original article Contributor: Roni Caryn Rabin

Outsider named to conduct one-month review with an eye toward modernizing. View original article Contributor: Lena H. Sun