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“No-Tell Motels”: Abortion in Pre-Roe South Carolina

Cara Delay, Nursing Clio, Cora Webb, Nursing Clio, Regina Day, Nursing Clio and Madeleine Ware, Nursing Clio
Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
“Charleston was the place to come before Roe v. Wade, for abortions.” Reminiscing about illegal abortion in South Carolina in the 1960s and early 1970s, this woman in her 60s, an oral history narrator,...

Where is the Internet Headed?

Solana Larsen, LSE Business Review
Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
Over the past few months, you’ve almost certainly heard someone lament the state of the internet. It might have been a friend or family member, who learned the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica breach was...

Gun Safety Skills Disappear When Kids find the Real Thing

Patti Verbanas, Futurity/Rutgers University
Science & Medicine
Children who participate in gun safety programs often ignore what they learned when they encounter a real firearm, research shows. The report, which appears in Health Promotion Practice, reviewed 10...

Are Our Genes Really Our Fate? DNA’s Visual Culture and the Construction of Genetic Truth

Kathleen Pierce
Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine
The direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andme has recently been described by journalist Erika Check Hayden as a “unicorn.”1 For Hayden, this Silicon Valley idiom describes the company’s one...

How Artificial Intelligence Can Detect – and Create – Fake News

Anjana Susarla, The Conversation
News, Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine
When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own...

Forced Sterilization Programs in California Once Harmed Thousands – Particularly Latinas

Natalie Lira, The Conversation and Nicole L. Novak, The Conversation
Gender Studies, History, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
In 1942, 18-year-old Iris Lopez, a Mexican-American woman, started working at the Calship Yards in Los Angeles. Working on the home front building Victory Ships not only added to the war effort, but allowed...

Parents feel weird about sex ed for LGBTQ teens

Marla Paul, Futurity
Education, Gender Studies, Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture
The parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer teens feel uncomfortable and unequipped when trying to educate them about sex and dating, research finds. “Parents play an important role...
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