Editor's Note: This story has been updated.Most emergency room visits in March 2020 in Chicago were some of the city's earliest COVID-19 cases. By the end of the month, the official website for the city of Chicago shared a report stating nearly 3,000 positive COVID-19 cases were identified within city limits alone. While most patients reported symptoms including a dry cough and shortness of breath, Braxton Williams checked into the ER feeling weak and nauseous.What he thought was food poisoning, Williams said, ending up being his kidneys functioning at 7% of their capacity. He was dying, and doctor's didn't know why."There was some conspiracy that some people were getting kidney failure after having COVID," Williams, 2020 Ball State sociology graduate...
An independent group should review the use-of-force policy that guides New Brunswick police to ensure it is concise and understood by all officers in the province, a coroner’s jury recommended Thursday. The three-woman, two-man jury was tasked with examining the death of Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman shot dead by a police officer in northern New Brunswick in 2020 during a wellness check. Jurors ruled her death a homicide, following four days of testimony at the inquest that began Monday. Earlier Thursday, Chris Butler, an expert in Canadian policing and the final witness at the inquiry, said the officer who shot Moore was following police training. Butler said Const. Jeremy Son had to use lethal force when Moore advanced...
Image via Bionic Reading The internet might be an essential resource for information, but it also overloads people with it. What if there were a way to digest news quicker without being overburdened with text? Swiss typographic designer Renato Casutt has developed a technique for that, by sheer accident. It’s called ‘Bionic Reading’, which involves the first few letters of words being “artificially emphasized” and allowing your brain to fill in the rest of the word. Bolding the starting letters of a word creates “artificial fixation points,” taking out some of the strain from the eyes and enhancing understanding. This means you’ll be able to grasp the meaning of texts with lower effort. Image via Bionic Reading ...
Most of us have no clue what people experience while in a coma, whether it's a natural or medically induced one. We hear some describing it as a dream-like state, and hit TV shows convincing us that it’s just a few days of quality sleep that leaves people refreshed and ready to conquer the world. However, it’s much more complicated than that. If you've ever wondered what this condition really feels like, the Ask Reddit community has got you covered. Three users, whatchalookingatboy, yummygumdrop, and _bread-boi, decided to learn more about this perplexing unconsciousness. They asked people to describe how they slipped into this state and what they remember (or not!) about it. A deluge of responses from coma survivors...
Dr. Sam: I’ll start by stating my position about using research. We absolutely should use research to inform our decisions about teaching. LINK My comment: Yes, we can use research when research on a subject is correct. 1. What if the research articles available are wrong? Why are we not using God given brains to think for ourselves? From 2004, when I started teaching a kid who had spent a year in kindergarten and a year in primary 1 and was unable to read a single sentence, I kept reading on the internet that the reason kids are dyslexic is because they have a phonological awareness deficit. After teaching for 6 years, commencing 2010 I wrote several articles disagreeing with...
