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Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world with his recent claim that he modified the genes of two babies. However, his methods of achieving a medical breakthrough are consistent with China’s culture of innovation at any cost. While many scientists follow Western standards of medicine and innovation, China may decide to go […]
Experts say making marijuana legal will help yield much needed insight into the drug’s health effects — both positive and negative.
In the most gender-bending episode of the season, Thursday’s Drag Race found the six remaining queens butching themselves up before giving a gaggle of social media stars the makeover of their lives. MINI CHALLENGE: BUTCH IT UP This week’s mini challenge tasked the Top 6 with creating butch characters to advertise Trade, a new fragrance […]
In high school, Leslie Jamison worked in an architect’s office, at Gap, and at Jamba Juice. Later, she pursued higher education at Harvard and other elite institutions, but didn’t leave the service sector entirely, holding jobs as an innkeeper and a baker, among others. She’s now the director of the nonfiction concentration in the writing […]
Enlarge / The ship on which this message was placed into its bottle. (credit: Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum-Unterweser) A 132-year-old message in a bottle turned up on an Australian beach earlier this year, but it’s not a love note or a treasure map: it’s a science experiment. Tonya Illman was walking the beach with a friend while […]
“DEFICITS don’t matter,” said Dick Cheney, then the vice-president, in 2004. He may have meant what he said, yet the administration he belonged to showed a decided lack of conviction when it came to borrowing, with the federal deficit never rising above 3.4% of GDP. Not so the current Republican government. In 2019 and 2020 […]
Tesla’s experiments with smart power grids are headed further North. Canada’s Nova Scotia Power recently finished setting up a pilot project that will use a combination of Tesla’s Powerwall 2 home batteries and utility-grade Powerpack batteries to create a more reliable wind power system. The Elmsdale-based Intelligent Feeder Project fills gaps in the electrical grid […]
“DEFICITS don’t matter,” said Dick Cheney, then the vice-president, in 2004. He may have meant what he said, yet the administration he belonged to showed a decided lack of conviction when it came to borrowing, with the federal deficit never rising above 3.4% of GDP. Not so the current Republican government. In 2019 and 2020 […]
A Wall Street Journal analysis of the school system’s 27-year-old program suggests the concept works best when private institutions limit the number of public students. Most of the city’s voucher schools don’t do that.
Mayor Michael Tubbs, from Stockton, California, announced last October the launch of a basic income experiment in his home city. The 27-year-old mayor wants to show Stockton can become a cutting-edge city as it recovers from its 2012 bankruptcy. Tubbs first learned about basic income in college, reading Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and he […]
