Scientific American • 21st October 2020 Vicious Woodpecker Battles Draw an Avian Audience Biologists who study acorn woodpeckers’ power struggles are not the only ones watching—so are rival woodpecker groups
South Side Weekly • 14th October 2020 Should Protesters be Prosecuted? Foxx and O’Brien Differ Kim Foxx is dismissing certain misdemeanor charges against protesters and prosecuting those charged with felonies. Her opponent says Foxx is allowing crime to “intermix” with peaceful protesters.
Scientific American • 14th October 2020 How to Avoid COVID while Voting Epidemiologists offer tips for U.S. voters and poll workers to limit their chances of getting infected
Scientific American • 3rd September 2020 How to Decide Who Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine First Medical ethicist Ezekiel Emanuel discusses a framework for equitably allocating COVID-19 vaccines based on preventing premature deaths and mitigating long-term economic impacts
South Side Weekly • 2nd September 2020 Mohawk Johnson on Hip-Hop, Activism, and Skating "I think what people need to understand is that regardless of how you feel about the methodology, these people are in pain. Art creates an avenue for that pain"
Scientific American • 20th July 2020 After Surgery, Black Children Are More Likely to Die Than White Children A study of nearly 200 U.S. medical centers found that even apparently healthy kids suffer racial disparities in complications associated with surgery
Scientific American • 8th July 2020 Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic Rates of childhood immunization have fallen across the U.S., raising the risk of vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks
South Side Weekly • 3rd July 2020 City Rescinds Chicago Freedom School Cease-and-Desist Order During George Floyd protests, city investigators came to the school after it ordered pizzas for activists
South Side Weekly • 30th June 2020 Following the Census Money The Weekly tracks state grants distributed to boost Census outreach
South Side Weekly • 24th June 2020 As the City Reopens, Mental Health Clinics Keep Services at a Distance A “significant portion” of services could stay remote as clinics permanently adopt telehealth
Al Jazeera News • 12th May 2020 Coronavirus Shutdown Threatens Chicago's Rohingya Cultural Center Coronavirus crisis forces the centre to cancel Ramadan fundraiser and puts the community it serves in dire straits.
Scientific American • 7th May 2020 'Breakthrough' COVID-19 Tests Are Currently Cheap, Fast—and Not Very Accurate Antigen-based assays could be used in the home, but critics say their error rates are still an issue
Scientific American • 10th April 2020 Winged "PigeonBot" Flies with Real Feathers A flying robot reveals how birds stay aloft and could inspire next-generation drones
Scientific American • 20th March 2020 How to Triage Patients Who Need Intensive Care A new computer model analyzes when to admit people to intensive care units—and when to move them out—which could help doctors handle the coronavirus surge
Scientific American • 12th February 2020 Deadly Air Pollution Doesn't Respect State Borders U.S. federal authorities have recently been reluctant to step in to mediate cross-border air quality issues among states
South Side Weekly • 4th February 2020 What Happened to the Mental Health Task Force? Public Health Commissioner Allison Arwady has proposed a new task force to “coordinate” mental health efforts
symmetry magazine • 4th February 2020 On background Physicists deal with background in their experiments in two ways: by reducing it and by rejecting it.
Scientific American • 17th December 2019 Ancient "Chewing Gum" Reveals a 5,700-Year-Old Microbiome Archaeologists reconstructed a Neolithic woman’s complete genome and oral microbiome from a piece of birch tar she chewed
Nature • 4th December 2019 Gene Therapy Arrives After false starts, drugs that manipulate the code of life are finally changing lives.
