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  • Using tech and circuit riding to beat the pandemic

    August 24, 2020 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Cuba, New Mexico

    The Cuba Independent School District in northern New Mexico has deployed a fleet of school buses to deliver food and school kits to students from its districts. Bus drivers reach rural areas of Sandoval County and help over 500 students complete their lessons. The district also distributed USB bracelets so students can download their lessons when they reach a wi-fi hotspot and later access school content without the need for an internet connection.

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  • Can Mount Vernon learn from Marion's downtown alley project?

    August 23, 2020 |

    Knox Pages |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Marion, Ohio

    The city of Marion, Ohio, has allocated an alley for use as a community hub where diners can eat, families can frolick, and revelers can listen to live music. The space has benefitted the local economy, encouraging residents to come out and support vendors on main street. During the pandemic, it served as a place people could safely gather while enjoying fresh air and a lively atmosphere. The nearby city of Mount Vernon is taking notes from Marion's success.

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  • Black Artists Find Ways to Make Their Voices Heard in Portland

    August 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    A burst of creativity is helping Portland confront its racist histories. From murals appearing on boarded-up buildings, protest art on exhibit at art centers, and artists gathering downtown to display their work depicting clashes between protestors and federal troops, new opportunities have been created for the city's Black artists. Community groups are also connecting artists with affordable housing resources and memorializing displaced Black communities using murals, photography, and oral histories. While a good start, more work is needed to bring about structural changes.

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  • Study Finds Painting Eyes On Cows' Butts Can Save Their Lives

    August 23, 2020 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Botswana

    As a way to prevent livestock from being attacked by predators and to decrease conflict between farmers and big cats, a pair of conservation biologists painted eyes on the backsides of cattle to fool carnivores during their hunt. A study in Botswana showed that cows painted with artificial eyes on their behinds tricked predators into thinking they’ve been seen by their prey. While it’s not a perfect protection method for cattle, over the four years of the study, none of the cows with the colorful posteriors were killed compared with control groups.

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  • ‘It's like paradise for us': the Cree Nation's fight to save the Broadback Forest

    August 22, 2020 |

    The Narwhal |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Quebec

    Canopy works to preserve the untouched Broadback Forest, which stores twice as much carbon as the Amazon and is central to the Cree Nation. The nonprofit works with 750 corporations, including fashion brands, commercial printers, and publishers to reduce the amount of packaging they use and eliminate sourcing from biodiverse, ancient, and endangered forests. They help source waste from grain and other food harvests for packaging, paper, and fabric production and enlist companies’ support of conservation initiatives. They also partner with other groups to lobby the government to protect the Broadback forest.

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  • How Teenage Activists Are Talking to Family About Racial Injustice

    August 22, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Young people are using social media as an effective way to engage in conversations with their families about racism, police violence, and Black Lives Matters protests. Many share their conversations on social media and find support from other young people struggling with talking about racial justice with family members. Social media is also being used to elevate and circulate images and videos of violence, which some point to as powerful ways to transform the attitudes and beliefs. On the other hand, some young people’s posts exacerbate tensions with family members.

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  • The Prison Within

    August 22, 2020 |

    Raw Love Productions |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, San Quentin, California

    In San Quentin Prison, men convicted of murder attend a 72-week restorative-justice circle where they tell their stories of trauma: what they suffered in their lives, and how they turned that into harm they inflicted on others. The Victim Offender Education Group enables a form of accountability and healing that being locked up doesn’t, because of the dialogue among the men and with others’ victims of violence.

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  • How a contested region became a model for multilingual coexistence

    August 22, 2020 |

    The Economist |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Denmark

    The border between Denmark and Germany was highly politicized and when it was set, Germans found themselves in Denmark and Danes found themselves in Germany. Each country is required to offer regional schools taught in the other language and some Germans have decided to send their children to Danish schools and vice versa. Over the years this has led to cultural exchanges and better relationships between the groups. It can be hard to convince Germans to learn Danish because there are just about 5.5 million native speakers, and young Danes now prefer to learn English over German.

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  • For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm

    August 21, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Israel, Beersheba

    The Israeli government is preparing to roll out a new form of pooled testing as the count of COVID-19 cases continues to increase. The methodology, which has already shown promise as a successful pilot project, works more efficiently than other pooled-testing efforts by using a combinatorial algorithm that was "developed a decade ago to speed the detection of rare genetic mutations."

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  • Vaccine Tech 30 Years in the Making Is Getting Put to the Ultimate Test

    August 21, 2020 |

    Medium |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    A key set of entrants in the race to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine use a genetic approach that has shown promising but preliminary results in human safety trials. Genetic vaccines, which have been in development for 30 years but have never undergone large-scale clinical trials or been used widely, differ from traditional vaccines, which inject a form of an actual pathogen to trigger an immune response. DNA and RNA vaccines can be developed much more quickly by using a small piece of genetic code to instruct a body's response. Initial human safety trials worked enough to move to large-scale tests.

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