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The Real History Behind The Current War
October 31, 2019 11:42 - 6 minutes - 2.96 MBOne irony of history is that while Thomas Edison invented the first practical and affordable light bulb, he didn't invent a practical and affordable system for keeping those lights on nationwide. The distinction for developing the system for transporting electricity that way goes jointly to George Westinghouse, the inventor of the railroad air brake, and to Nikola Tesla, a visionary engineer from the Austrian empire.
Can Amsterdam's First Female Mayor Remake the Red Light District for the 21st Century?
October 31, 2019 11:26 - 20 minutes - 9.3 MBEveryone has an opinion about where Felicia Anna works. For the last nine years, the 33-year-old Romanian sex worker has attracted clients by standing in the glowing windows of the world’s most famous red light district. Sipping coffee outside a cafe on one of Amsterdam’s cobbled, canal-side streets, she says the area’s reputation means it attracts far more controversy than legal prostitution does in other areas.
Pentagon Releases First Details, Images From al-Baghdadi Raid
October 31, 2019 11:16 - 5 minutes - 2.66 MBWASHINGTON — The general who oversaw the U.S. raid on Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi provided the most detailed account yet of the operation Wednesday and said the U.S. is on alert for possible "retribution attacks" by extremists. Gen. Frank McKenzie, head of U.S. Central Command, said al-Baghdadi's remains were buried at sea within 24 hours of his death inside an underground tunnel where he fled as special operations soldiers closed in on him.
Harassment and Discrimination Are Leading to Burnout Among Female Doctors, Study Says
October 31, 2019 11:07 - 3 minutes - 1.54 MBSexual harassment, gender discrimination and verbal abuse are contributing to high rates of burnout among female physicians, according to a new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Burnout—defined earlier this year by the World Health Organization as emotional exhaustion, fatigue, cynicism and reduced productivity resulting from unmanaged workplace stress—is widespread among doctors, who often put in long, emotionally draining hours.
Jeopardy! Host Alex Trebek Shares Pancreatic Cancer PSA Amidst His Battle With the Disease
October 31, 2019 11:00 - 2 minutes - 949 KBJeopardy! host Alex Trebek, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, has released a public service announcement to help raise awareness of the disease. In the months since, the longtime gameshow host, 79, has spoken openly about his cancer struggle. He announced in early October that he had begun another round of chemotherapy to counter the cancer after being in remission.
Twitter Bans Political Ads, Raising Pressure on Facebook to Follow Suit
October 31, 2019 10:55 - 1 minute - 882 KB(SAN FRANCISCO) — Twitter is banning all political advertising from its service, saying social media companies give advertisers an unfair advantage in proliferating highly targeted, misleading messages. Facebook has taken fire since it disclosed earlier in October that it will not fact-check ads by politicians or their campaigns, which could allow them to lie freely. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress last week that politicians have the right to free speech on Facebook...
South Korean Military Says North Korea Fired Two Projectiles
October 31, 2019 10:52 - 1 minute - 868 KB(SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea's military said North Korea on Thursday fired two projectiles toward its eastern sea, extending a streak of weapons tests apparently aimed at ramping up pressure on Washington over a stalemate in nuclear negotiations. Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the weapons were fired from a region near the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
Trump to Welcome Military Dog Wounded in al-Baghdadi Mission to the White House
October 31, 2019 10:43 - 2 minutes - 964 KB(WASHINGTON) — Every dog has his day, just not at the White House. President Donald Trump tweets that the military working dog injured in the raid last weekend that killed the Islamic State leader will leave the Middle East for the White House sometime next week. And the president appears to have declassified the dog's name: Conan. That had remained a military secret because of the classified nature of the mission in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died.
Community Health Workers Are Vital; Governments Should Be Paying Them
October 30, 2019 12:51 - 4 minutes - 2.11 MBIllness is universal, health care is not. Over half of the world's 7.3 billion people, including 1 billion in rural communities, lack access to health care. Approximately 13 million children still go without a single dose of any vaccine. Nearly 9 million newborns, children and mothers still die each year from preventable or treatable conditions. Compounding this crisis is a massive health-worker shortage, forecast to grow to 18 million by 2030.
The Sleep Habits That Can Improve Your Grades, According to a New Study
October 30, 2019 12:43 - 5 minutes - 2.38 MBJeffrey Grossman set out to study how exercise affects college students' grades. What he found, instead, offers uniquely specific insight into the impact sleep has on academic performance. Grossman, a professor of materials science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), asked 100 of his Introduction to Solid State Chemistry students to wear a Fitbit activity tracker for an entire semester. (Eighty-eight did.
‘The Hardest Is Over.’ Capital Gazette Shooting Survivors Share Relief After Gunman Pleads Guilty
October 30, 2019 12:33 - 3 minutes - 1.61 MBSelene San Felice survived the 2018 Capital Gazette shooting and was preparing herself to testify that it was Jarrod Ramos who opened fire on her newsroom and killed five of her colleagues. Then on Monday, a week before the trial was slated to start, came the news that Ramos was pleading guilty and admitting to the shooting at the Annapolis, Md. newspaper group.
Column: 'One Country, Two Systems' Is Still the Best Model for Hong Kong, But It Needs Reform
October 30, 2019 12:25 - 11 minutes - 5.07 MBHong Kong’s 1997 handover was historic in the adoption of the One Country, Two Systems arrangement, by which the city would continue to enjoy its distinct political, socioeconomic, and legal arrangements under a unified China, for at least fifty years without change. But to say that the transition hasn't been easy is an understatement.
The Crucifixion Took on New Religious Meaning in the Centuries After the Death of Jesus. Here’s What Changed
October 30, 2019 12:18 - 10 minutes - 4.67 MBThe Romans, for all that they had adopted crucifixion as the “supreme penalty,” refused to countenance the possibility that it might have originated with them. Only a people famed for their barbarousness and cruelty could ever have devised such a torture: the Persians, perhaps, or the Assyrians, or the Gauls. Everything about the practice of nailing a man to a cross—a “crux”— was repellent.
Bipartisan House Passes Bill Punishing Turkey for Syria Invasion
October 30, 2019 12:02 - 4 minutes - 1.84 MBWASHINGTON — A bipartisan bill punishing Turkey for its invasion of northern Syria and illustrating both parties' dismay with President Donald Trump's retreat from the region sailed easily through the House on Tuesday. The bill marks both parties' latest show of disapproval for Trump's decision this month to abandon the United States' longtime Kurdish allies against Islamic State fighters by pulling American forces away from northern Syria.