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New construction is dominating Minneapolis’ downtown since the city made it easier to build apartments. In 2019, Minneapolis also became the first major city to eliminate exclusive single-family zoning in its efforts to increase the availability of housing.
If a company fills a river with bird poop to the point that fish in nearby lakes asphyxiate, is it “un-American” to sue them? Oklahoma Republican Governor Kevin Stitt (above) thinks so.
Originally published in 1987 during the panic around HIV/AIDS, The Regulation of Desire was the first book-length study of sexual regulation in Canada. Drawing on his long experience in anti-capitalist groups, the gay liberation movement, anti-racist and anti-police organizing, and AIDS activism, Gary Kinsman’s investigation of the social forces that produce both sexual regulations and resistance and enforce queer, trans, and Two-Spirit oppression laid the groundwork for subsequent studies of queer sexuality in Canada and beyond.
Editors of Columbia Law Review, a prominent journal run by students from the prestigious university’s law school, say the publication’s board of directors urged them on June 2, 2024, to refrain from publishing an article critical of Israel. After the students published the article online the following day, the board, which includes Columbia Law School faculty members and alumni, had the law review’s website taken down.
Depressive symptoms are linked to subsequent memory decline in older people, while poorer memory is also linked to an increase in depressive symptoms later on, according to a new study led by researchers at UCL and Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
The women, who all pursued doctoral degrees or performed academic research under Boaventura’s supervision, made the accusations in a four-and-a-half-hour interview…. Boaventura, an influential thinker on globalisation, epistemology and social change, has denied all wrongdoing, adding that he has never been formally accused of any crime. An inquiry opened in April by Portuguese prosecutors is ongoing. Above: Graffiti on a wall at the University of Coimbra which reads “Boaventura out. We all know”
According to Chu Van Thanh, Deputy Head of the Social Work Section of Children’s Hospital 1, they now take care of the child patients’ emotional well-being as well as giving them financial support. The “Happy Class” makes the time children spend confined to the hospital more enjoyable. Above: 9-year-old Nguyen Hoang Bao from Lam Dong province is eager to practise speaking English with a volunteer teacher.
“Through this meta-analysis, we identified key factors that make the cashless effect stronger or weaker, which individual studies could not find. By doing this, we uncovered new insights that had often been overlooked by other researchers in individual studies,” Schomburgk says.