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Virginia-based Cynthia Atkins writes about some unexpected consequences of the world-wide brush with death.
Data Brokers
John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.
Women of the White Buffalo | Movie
Lakota women on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations in South Dakota are rising up against the forces that continue to suppress them. With exclusive access to the lives of 9 women, ranging in age from 10 to 98. View the movie here.
Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: CPAC and the Hungarian Right
Jordan Klepper hits CPAC to talk to die-hard Trump supporters, then heads to Hungary to find out why conservatives are interested in the “Trump before Trump” Viktor Orban.
Jackie Robinson Was a Radical – Don’t Listen to the Sanitized Version of History
The Conversation
Robinson was a fierce competitor, an outstanding athlete and a deeply religious man. The aspect of his legacy that often gets glossed over is that he was also a radical with a long involvement with the civil rights movement.
Laughing Ourselves to Death at the Gridiron Dinner
The Nation
Our pundit class, from Leana Wen to David Leonhardt, have told us that since we’re all vaccinated we have nothing to worry about, so all that was asked of attendees was to provide proof of immunization. Would that it were so simple.
Fordham University Grad Students Vote To Unionize; Seeking Wage Increase to $26K in New Contract
Bronx Times
Fordham University graduate workers became the latest New York-based employees to successfully unionize in a landslide 229-15 vote — forming a union with the Communications Workers of America.
Record-Breaking Simulation Hints at How Climate Shaped Human Migration
Nature
A group of climate physicists ran a climate model on a supercomputer to reconstruct how temperature and rainfall might have shaped the resources available to humans over the past few million years, and therefore human migration and evolution.
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