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How faulty data, Big Pharma and the fallout from hydroxychloroquine has haunted the research world, as desperate doctors and researchers look for a COVID-19 treatment.
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Listen 14:52For some new doctors, the pandemic means more responsibility with less training
As some hospitals became overwhelmed during the early days of the pandemic, educational requirements for residents in especially hard-hit regions were suspended.
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Listen 7:15Is your boss spying on you while you work remotely?
The pandemic has accelerated a disconcerting trend: Workplace-surveillance software.
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Listen 6:57A voice-over artist asks: Will AI take her job?
If a text-to-speech clone can capture her in a moment, is there a role for her? And how will artificial intelligence affect creativity?
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Listen 4:41Safety or socialization?: School leaders ‘agonize’ over COVID-era back-to-school plans
It takes years for science to migrate into real-life practice. Today, educators are trying to make real-time sense of a disease scientists are learning about on the fly.
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Listen 11:14Student showcase: What teenagers are thinking about this upcoming school year
How are kids being impacted by the pandemic? Our high school reporters produced short personal essays on ways that the pandemic has impacted each of their lives.
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How a brain injury turned a teenager from shy to sociable
A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon.
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Listen 6:42Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves.
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Listen 6:36Can you actually learn a new language through an app?
Definitely maybe, research suggests. What doesn’t help: conjugation, and odd bits of practice conversation no one ever uses.
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Listen 6:41FOSTA-SESTA was supposed to thwart sex trafficking. Instead, it’s sparked a movement
Why sex workers say the laws harm the most vulnerable among their ranks — and put their lives in danger.
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Listen 17:04One woman’s mission to make sure everyone carries Narcan — including drug dealers
In Kensington, Rosalind Pichardo learned, people using drugs usually want to have Narcan on hand. Drug dealers were tougher to convince.
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Listen 9:27Can coronavirus ‘Victory Gardens’ quell post-pandemic hunger?
With rampant unemployment and several meat-packing plants linked to COVID-19 outbreaks, many people are turning to at-home horticulture for relief.
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Listen 6:23Should cities pay influencers to help stop the spread of COVID-19?
The question is not just about money. It’s also about getting the word out to people who need to hear it and might not get it elsewhere.
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Listen 7:50The cost and hidden silver lining of COVID-19 misinformation
Because of the pandemic, researchers are learning more about how falsehoods spread on social media — and hopefully how to stop them.
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Listen 10:52Has the coronavirus shutdown improved air quality? Is our air really cleaner?
EPA data for ozone levels and particulate matter doesn’t show big changes, but our bodies may feel a subtle, fresher difference.
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