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  • Swedish sex education has time for games and mature debate

    June 05, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Sweden, Gnesta

    The United Kingdom’s teen birthrate is as high as 19.7 births per 1,000 women; one contributing factor is that sex education is not a requirement and can span only a day. Gnesta in Sweden offers a four to five week course on comprehensive sex education with a curriculum that makes the topic enjoyable, informative, and sensitive. As a result, the teen birthrate is only 5.2 per 1,000.

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  • Sustainability Pioneers: Becoming Energy Independent

    May 12, 2015 |

    Sustainability Pioneers |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany, Saerbeck

    Saerbeck, Germany is setting the standard for sustainable energy use and the reduction of their carbon footprint through a series of projects. Through these projects, private and public buildings as well as farms have installed community owned solar power and transparency around the central heating plant has increased to help inform the community of ways to make less environmentally harmful decisions.

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  • How One Hospital Brought Its C-Section Rate Down In A Hurry

    May 10, 2015 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, Newport Beach, California

    Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, under pressure from the insurance network to lower maternity costs, used a number of tools to lower the rate of cesarean sections done. The changes not only helped drastically reduce costs, but created a better, safer birth outcomes for patients.

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  • This Iraqi couple fled ISIS but face another enemy in the US — diabetes

    May 08, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Diabetes hits US immigrant communities especially hard, with genetics and higher-calorie diets explaining just part of it. Support groups help immigrants with diabetes to find a way to eat healthy in the American high-calorie system.

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  • The Secret Lives of Homeless Students

    May 05, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Homeless and impoverished kids still have the chance to receive a college education, they just need to have the confidence that they can do so and a little pushing from outside forces. The author shares her own story of accomplishing just that.

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  • In sexual misconduct, data offer limited guidance

    April 13, 2015 |

    Yale Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    As campuses across the country race to address a burgeoning nationwide conversation about sexual assault, policymakers, politicians, university counselors and students alike are faced with a lack of quantitative information. But Yale University has taken significant steps to collect and distribute information that may finally change the toxic culture of campus sexual assault.

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  • Teaching citizens how to shoot better video when they witness brutality

    April 10, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    With human injustices affecting people on the streets around the world, camera phones have become important tools to document crimes. However, the video may not adequately capture the crime to be persuasive in court. The global organization WITNESS has formed as Video As Evidence Program to instruct citizens how to best document crimes with their cameras so that the evidence will stand in court.

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  • Turning to Big, Big Data to See What Ails the World

    April 09, 2015 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Public health, and large amounts of data behind it, is changing in today's world. The Global Burden of Disease Report, involving hundreds of scientists over the course of many years, aims to find out what makes humans sick and disabled.

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  • One city's answer to the high two-year college dropout rate

    April 09, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Yonkers, New York

    Yonkers Partners in Education offers free SAT test prep and college guidance counselors in Yonker's high schools. The program aims to increase college enrollment rates for low-income students who lack the same access to expensive tutors and courses as their afluent peers.

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  • The irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous

    April 01, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

    For decades, the only good option for alcoholics seeking recovery was an abstinence-based 12-step program called Alcoholics Anonymous. John David Sinclair, an American neuroscientist, has developed a new method, where an alcoholic takes naltrexone one hour before drinking. The naltrexone blocks the brain's opioid receptors and prevents an alcoholics strong synaptic reward response from occurring, which allows their craving for alcohol to eventually subside.

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