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Crashes on electric scooters are mostly due to the behavior of the riders, with one-handed steering and riding in a group being some of the largest risk factors. The researchers are also concerned about riders who deliberately crash or cause dangerous situations when riding, a phenomenon that seems to be specific to electric scooters.
The work has been grueling even as it has freed her; it is constant crisis, and it is easy to lose herself and disconnect from her body and her own needs. But the community she has built as an organizer is one that can hold her too when she needs it, a place where she has friends and care beyond her immediate family. A home.
He found that students who work more than 20 hours a week do significantly worse on tests and come to class less often; half of those low-attending students ended up failing his class, compared to just 7% of high-attending students.
The new political review centers on Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) announcements seeking applications for everything from investigator-initiated research to specific research topics and training grants…. NIH only published three NOFOs between 20 January and 26 March, compared with 163 in 2023 and 147 in 2024 between the same dates. A document seen by Science from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases says 27 out of the 41 NOFOs for grants it intended to award in the 2026 fiscal year remain unpublished.
“Habitual offender” laws first spread across the country in the early 1900s as part of the eugenics movement, which grew in the 1880s and reached its peak in the 1920s. The aim of the eugenics movement was to create a superior race in order to address social problems such as crime and disease, which the movement assumed had a biological basis.3 Applying pseudoscience, laws and policies were created to prevent those who were deemed inferior, such as the mentally ill, those convicted of criminal offenses, or the physically frail, from reproducing. Eugenics and racism are deeply entwined, and the “projects” of eugenics supported “racial nationalism and racial purity.”4 One example of the relationship between race and eugenics is found in Nazi Germany, where “Nazi planners appropriated and incorporated eugenics as they implemented racial policy and genocide.”5
Red Scare author Clay Risen sees parallels between 1950s witch-hunts and the right’s assault on government today
Jacintah McCaffrey’s nearly 25-year career in social work in Northern Ireland began in 2001 with her first role at a children’s residential home.