Opioid Crisis: Bias In Treating Pregnant Addicts

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  899 words  |  Billy Koelling

In The Souls of Black Folk, the sociologist W.E.B. DuBois posed a piercing question: “How does it feel to be a problem?” DuBois wasn’t contemplating the problems of people; we all have them. Rather, DuBois was spotlighting that a person’s very own existence—particularly a black American’s during Jim Crow segregation—can be a problem that others wish to control. Over eight decades later, when crack ripped apart American inner cities and crept into the wombs of women, DuBois’s question for poor, black mothers-to-be wrestling with drug addiction seemed as poignant as ever: “How does it feel to be a problem? [Read More]

Orange Is the New Black Is the Decade's Most Important Show

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1547 words  |  Billy Koelling

“Prison is just not as romantic as all those ’70s exploitation movies made it out to be,” Nicky Nichols, an inmate played by Natasha Lyonne, says to Alex Vause (Laura Prepon) in the emotional seventh and final season of Orange Is the New Black. “I want my money back.” The joke works on multiple levels: Nicky and Alex are lesbians. They’re also privileged white women who couldn’t have foreseen what awaited them when they reported to Litchfield Penitentiary, the fictional upstate New York minimum-security prison where the show’s first five seasons take place. [Read More]

Robinhood investors are scooping up AMD after its new chip announcement (AMD)

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  208 words  |  Billy Koelling

Users of the Robinhood trading app have upped their holdings in AMD, following the company's announcement that its processing chips have finally taken the performance crown from arch-rival Intel. Robinhood, which offers fee-free trading , is popular with younger investors with the average account holder aging 32. The number of accounts holding AMD leapt by 4% over the last week, rising to 166,000. AMD is the ninth-most-popular stock on the platform while Intel lags in the 39th spot. [Read More]

Sanwo-Olu appoints Agoro to replace Muri-Okunola as Lagos HOS

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  208 words  |  Martina Birk

The outgoing HOS, Hakeem Muri-Okunola, said in a circular that the appointment would take effect from Sept. 30. Muri-Okunola said that it was expedient to note that the new HOS joined the Lagos State Public Service on July 1 2003 and had since, served the state meritoriously before his elevation to the status of a Permanent Secretary on Aug. 3, 2015. He said that until his appointment, Agoro was the Permanent Secretary, Lands Bureau. [Read More]

Science: Growing Gold | TIME

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  186 words  |  Tandra Barner

TIME March 3, 1941 12:00 AM GMT-5 Goldbugs have a new prospecting tool: the horsetail weed (Equisetum arvense) which grows abundantly across the U. S. and Canada. When it grows in soil with a gold content, it hungrily absorbs the metal. Last week Hans Torkel Fredrik Lundberg of Toronto told the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers that for some time Canadian prospectors had been locating gold by burning a clump of horsetail, analyzing the ashes. [Read More]

Smart Genes? | TIME

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2806 words  |  Tandra Barner

The small, brown, furry creature inside a cage in Princeton University’s molecular-biology department looks for all the world like an ordinary mouse. It sniffs around, climbs the bars, burrows into wood shavings on the floor, eats, eliminates, sleeps. But put the animal through its paces in a testing lab, and it quickly becomes evident that this mouse is anything but ordinary. One after another, it knocks off a variety of tasks designed to test a rodent’s mental capacities–and almost invariably learns more quickly, remembers what it learns for a longer time and adapts to changes in its environment more flexibly than a normal mouse. [Read More]

Someone close to Flavour claims singer has gotten married to his first baby mama Sandra Okagbue

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  97 words  |  Billy Koelling

According to On-Air personality, Blossom Martins, the music star, and Okagbue got married at a private ceremony that took place in Onitsha on Monday August 3, 2020. The report says the wedding was held in discreet, devoid of the usual flamboyance associated with celebrities. Sandra Okagbue, Flavour and a guest at her birthday dinner ece-auto-gen ADVERTISEMENT The two started dating in 2014 and became famous for their on and off relationship. [Read More]

Sproutling Baby Monitor for Millennial Parents Works Like Fitbit

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  734 words  |  Martina Birk

At first glance, the Sproutling Baby Monitor looks a little like a high-tech house-arrest anklet. It’s been dubbed “Fitbit for your baby” and “Nest for your nursery,” and it promises to do so many things that it begs the question: Do parents really need to monitor 16 variables and vitals every time they put the baby down for a nap? Is this helicopter parenting taken to a technology-enabled extreme? Sproutling intends to be the opposite—a rare wearable technology that makes life simpler, not more complicated, according to its co-founder and CEO Chris Bruce, who got the idea for Sproutling when his second child was born. [Read More]

Swimming Season: Vintage Poolside Photos From 1960

 Posted on August 12, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  247 words  |  Billy Koelling

May 25, 2017 12:00 PM EDT Though summer won’t official start for a few weeks, the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. — celebrated on the final Monday in May — is often considered the unofficial start of the season, which many will celebrate poolside. Though the concept of the swimming pool is an ancient one, such places were generally public or semi-public until relatively recently. Even during what swimming-pool expert Jeff Wiltse has described to NPR as the “pool-building spree” of the 1920s and ’30s, most of the pools being built were large, resort-style ones. [Read More]