For Some Survivors, Polio Casts a Long Shadow - Undark Magazine
网页01.02.2023. 5 Comments. Brad Fuller was a toddler when he contracted polio in 1952 and was sent to a hospital miles from his northeast Pennsylvania home. He stayed there for nine months, enduring long stints in an iron lung, a large metallic ventilator that helped him breathe. Fuller’s parents were allowed only rare visits.
Opinion: Don’t Ask AI to Make Life-and-Death Decisions - Undark …
网页08.08.2024. Sometimes, AI really can be a matter of life and death. Last year, a Belgian man tragically ended his life after allegedly being persuaded to do so by a chatbot. In the Netherlands, there’s an ongoing debate over whether to allow the use of artificial intelligence, or AI, to support decisions around doctor-assisted suicide.
Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science
网页2022年12月12日 · LONG DIVISION is an ongoing journalistic project by Undark Magazine, published by the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, that examines the fraught legacy of race science.The multipart series, supported in part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, grew out of a workshop held in June 2022 at Harvard University, which brought together journalists, science historians, and other ...
Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland
网页08.01.2022. On the southern edge of Mexico City, on a patch of land surrounded by water, a farmer and a scientist recently inspected rows of small cubes of mud that had sprouted seedlings. They were crouching on a chinampa, an island that appears to float in Lake Xochimilco, part of a complex ecosystem where the Aztec Empire once flourished.
In Cape Cod, New Efforts to Coexist With Sharks - Undark Magazine
网页07.07.2021. On a windy morning in March, two older surfers at LeCount Hollow Beach, on Cape Cod, look out at the gray Atlantic. They are scanning the water closest to shore for seals, with whom they increasingly have to share the frigid water, which can dip as low as 37 degrees Fahrenheit in winter. The seals are a growing demographic.
The Gold Rush Returns to California - Undark Magazine
网页By Becki Robins. 01.24.2022. 21 Comments. On the outskirts of the northern California town of Grass Valley, a massive concrete silo looms over the weeds and crumbling pavement. Nearby, unseen, a mine shaft drops 3,400 feet into the earth. These are the remains of Grass Valley’s Idaho-Maryland Mine, a relic from the town’s gold mining past.
The Scramble to Defuse the ‘Feral Swine Bomb’ - Undark Magazine
网页2020年9月14日 · Years ago, preventing feral pig populations hardly seemed worth the money, but today these animals are responsible for an estimated $2.5 billion worth of damage in the U.S. each year, mostly by mowing down farmers’ crops, as well as attacking calves, lambs, and pregnant livestock, and destroying native plants, animals, and …
Alice Augusta Ball: Chemical Drug Pioneer - Undark Magazine
网页2016年5月12日 · As the reality of being eclipsed is even more pronounced for women, I begin by telling the story of chemical drug pioneer Alice Augusta Ball. Alice Augusta Ball was born in Seattle in July of 1892. Her grandfather James was a famous photographer and her father was a lawyer. She had two older brothers, Robert and William, and a younger sister ...
Can Plastic Waste Be Transformed Into Food for Humans?
网页2024年8月21日 · I n 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the copious amount of plastic waste generated when troops are sent to work in remote locations or disaster zones. The agency wanted a system that could convert food wrappers and water bottles, among other things, into usable products, such as fuel and rations.
Down on the Body Farm: The Forensics of Decaying Corpses
网页2019年11月11日 · As decomposition gets rolling, forensic anthropologists mark five physical stages of decay: “fresh,” during which a person still looks relatively normal; “bloat,” when the body fills with gases; “active decay,” when a corpse’s soft tissue decomposes; “advanced decay,” and finally, “dry skeletal remains.”.