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The bill was specifically drafted by Rep. Trevor Lee, R-Layton, to ban flags celebrating the LGBTQ community in schools. It was later expanded to apply on all government property in the state. Public higher education is included…. The U.’s faculty have increasingly prompted pushback from state leaders, who have suggested that the school has become too progressive.
The unbroken conservative desire to cut the welfare state is not really motivated by concern for welfare recipients but rather by concern for others who they think are more deserving of the share of the national income and consumption that welfare beneficiaries currently receive. Makers and takers. Producers and parasites. And so on.
A McGill University-led study found that people with cannabis use disorder (CUD) had elevated dopamine levels in a brain region associated with psychosis.
Kaila Anderson knows first-hand that farmers have a high propensity for depression and one of the highest rates of suicide of any occupation, often attributed to the demanding and precarious nature of the job. Yet she has found that crisis-line staffers, doctors and therapists in farm country often don’t have the cultural training to recognize the signs of emotional stress unique to farmers.
The proliferation and growing sophistication of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has also opened troubling new frontiers. Child abusers can now produce realistic AI-generated child sexual abuse material, using the photos of real children in order to extort. This can make detection harder and muddy the water in terms of legal accountability. Many jurisdictions are still playing catch-up.
Being married is by no means an established protective factor for dementia, with an earlier meta-analysis (a study of studies) showing mixed results. The new study from Florida State University uses one of the biggest samples to date to examine this issue, and carries a good deal of weight.
In the face of ongoing funding disruptions to US foreign assistance programs, a group of international experts including co-lead author Prof Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and co-author Dr. Seth Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, call for urgent action to ensure the continuation of life-saving interventions and support for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.