COVID-19: What other concerns do you have?

In this Q&A, Political scientist Matt Motta answers questions about the current levels of vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. and how that might affect the country’s ability to achieve herd immunity after a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.

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Poltical scientist Matt Motta studies the social and political determinants of anti-science attitudes. In this Q&A, he answers questions about the current levels of vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. and how that might affect the country's ability to achieve herd immunity after a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available.

Matt Motta, a scholar who studies political and science communication, explains why herd immunity may be difficult to achieve in the U.S.

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Transformational education: "I started From Prison Cells to PhD."

CAREER FEATURE: Moving from prison to a PhD
Nature spoke to three US researchers who have built academic careers after they were released. Article by Virginia Gewin via Nature.com

CAREER FEATURE

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Most applications to academic institutions around the world include a box to check if a student has a criminal history, but a ‘ban the box’ movement is now under way. Last year, the UK Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS) — which manages application to all British universities — dropped its criminal-history question. And in August, the US Common Application, used by 800 colleges and universities, removed the question — although individual institutions can still ask it.

A 2013 study from the RAND Corporation, a think tank in Santa Monica, California, found that incarcerated individuals who participated in correctional education programes were 43% less likely to return to prison after release than were those who did not.

Although 2.3 million people are currently in US prisons, fewer than 5% of people get university degrees — making them 8 times less likely to complete their education than the general public. Fewer still pursue PhDs. Nature spoke to three US researchers who went from prison to PhD programmes to senior posts in academia, and who now aim to help others to find their academic footing. Career Feature - Full Article via:

Moving from prison to a PhD

Most applications to academic institutions around the world include a box to check if a student has a criminal history, but a 'ban the box' movement is now under way. Last year, the UK Universities and Colleges Admissions Services (UCAS) - which manages application to all British universities - dropped its criminal-history question.

“Knowing how transformational education can be, I started From Prison Cells to PhD, a non-profit organization that currently works with 100 formerly incarcerated people each year. We provide resources, tools, support, mentoring and internships to help them to pursue their academic goals.” — STANLEY ANDRISSE: Create pathways


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'There is a theory in psychology that great things never come from comfort zones. That’s why we’ve created a space to have hard conversations about issues that matter.'
— Minneapolis Foundation/CWC:

Conversations with Chanda is leading our community on a tough but revealing path of discovery and civic action through our new podcast and live event series. We’re calling on everyone to join us in the difficult conversations that seek shared understanding. We know even the most candid dialogue remains essentially talk — we seek to spark actions for our community’s grittiest, most vexing problems.

Who is Chanda?
Chanda Smith Baker is The Minneapolis Foundation’s Senior Vice President of Impact. She has over 20 years of experience working in, for, and with underestimated communities. Chanda is committed to helping us break out of our silos, talk about critical issues together, and be a catalyst for collective change. An evening Conversation with Chanda - Panel, Source: MPLS/CWC

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What happens when two people get together and dive into intimate conversation about our community’s grittiest, most vexing problems? Find out on our new podcast, Conversations with Chanda. Hosted by Chanda Smith Baker, Conversations with Chanda unpacks complex topics – the power structures that surround wealth, navigating the world of philanthropy as a person of color, why criminal justice reform is something everyone should care about, and turning unthinkable grief into good.
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What happens when two people get together and dive into intimate conversation about our community's grittiest, most vexing problems? Find out on our new podcast, Conversations with Chanda. Hosted by Chanda Smith Baker, Conversations with Chanda unpacks complex topics - the power structures that surround wealth, navigating the world of philanthropy as a person of color, why criminal justice reform is something everyone should care about, and turning unthinkable grief into good.

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One of the first community foundations in the world, The Minneapolis Foundation brings together people, ideas, and resources to improve lives, locally and globally. It’s a 100-year-old tradition — and they have big plans for the future.

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We get the goods to help you shop smarter and protect yourself from slick scams and misleading marketing claims. We investigate the products and services we all use every day and push companies and government for answers. And we expose the truth on stories that matter to you and your family. — Marketplace
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It's time we put that energy to use in the real world: Less Tweeting!

Your Angry Tweets Aren't Helping
If you spend most of your time on Twitter; you'll quickly conclude that everyone is outraged about everything. It's not only Twitter but also other social network platforms.

Article by Marc Peruzzi via Outside Magazine
Today, Americans are filled with rage at national politics, but we don’t know how to channel that energy into actual change. So we spew forth on social media as if those words—whether vitriolic or rational—are a replacement for doing. They’re not. Which is why social media activism (and, frankly, much of cable news) is largely irrelevant.

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Okay, tweets and posts also notify activists of important real-world happenings.
And, credit where it’s due, social media is clearly effective at rallying like-minded people to like-minded causes; #metoo (Yes!) and #unitetheright (No!) prove that. But most tweeting amounts to tribal members yelling into a digital canyon in hopes of elucidating a self-affirming echo from people who look, think, and vote just like they do. Pick them selectively and your followers are your choir. Let the Russians pick and it’s an angry mob.

Maybe a tweet or a post relieves the guilt of not-doing for a nanosecond.
And perhaps it makes one feel less alone when the retweets and likes accrue. But social media is a weak palliative. Unless you count rifting, tweeting isn’t doing.
And doing is what heals us.

The Antidote
And if those words fail, we can always put politics and social media aside and fall back to our watersheds and trails and beaches and engage the world as we know it, not as it’s presented in caustic tweets. Read the full article by Marc Peruzzi via Outside

Your Angry Tweets Aren't Helping

When words failed him, George Orwell stopped writing and took a bullet in the neck. As an essayist in the 1930s, Orwell tried to motivate Great Britain to fight fascism in Spain so the world wouldn't have to fight fascism on their doorsteps.

“It is difficult to be certain about anything except what you have seen with your own eyes. And consciously or unconsciously, everyone writes as a partisan.” — George Orwell

Mechanics that talk like you and think like you:

Girls Auto Clinic (GAC)
is a woman owned and operated business that caters to women.
GAC offers automotive buying and repair resources, products, and services based on trust, education, inclusion, and empowerment.

 
It’s no secret most women hate their automotive buying and repair experiences because we feel misunderstood, taken advantage of, and/or mistreated.  To make things worse, there isn’t much out there to ease concerns, anxiety, and fear despite the fact more than half the customers in the automotive industry are women and spend $200 Billion (with a B) a year on buying and repairing their cars.

Patrice Banks was once one of these women.
A self-proclaimed “auto airhead®,” Patrice created a business model that supports a need in the lives of millions. Automotive Repair SERVICES at Girls Auto Clinic centers; to give you the automotive experience you want and deserve!

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Services: Girls Auto Clinic offers full-service auto repair, female mechanics, manis, pedis, and blowouts while you wait, all in a beautiful lounge tailored to women. Check out the Repair Center and Clutch Beauty Bar

Disrupting the Auto Insurance Industry: Article

With over 260 million licensed drivers in the US,
it's no wonder this startup is taking off and saving people money, for free!
Are you aware that you could receive a large discount by using this new startup's service?
In addition, if you live in certain zip codes, you may get extremely low rates.

EverQuote: Compare Prices

Article: For a long time, there was no easy way to compare quotes from all of these huge car insurance companies. You had to check one site, then jump to another and enter all of your information all over again. Drivers were stuck doing all the work to save money. Now, all that is changing. Thanks to this new startup, EverQuote™, the information you need to help you save can be found in one place. EverQuote™ is not an insurer, but a comparison shopping marketplace. Featured in the Inc. 5000 list as one of the fastest growing companies for 2017, it is not a question that customers are finding what they are looking for - lower quotes.

What exactly do you need to do?
Here is one easy rule to follow: You have to compare quotes.

Proven Advice To Save You Money On Your Car Insurance Bill

United States drivers are surprised they never knew this rule. If you don't have tickets in the past 3 years, consider this.

Built for Zero: Now accelerating its work in 50 more cities

As of to date, 12 cities 'have ended veteran homelessness.'
It’s part of a national program called Built for Zero that uses a data-based approach to help officials figure out exactly who needs what services.
BFZ accelerates its work in 50 more cities.

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In late February 2019, the city of Abilene, Texas, made an announcement:
It had ended local veteran homelessness.

It was the first community in the state and the ninth in the country to reach that goal, as part of a national program called Built for Zero. Now, through the same program, Abilene is working to end chronic homelessness. While homelessness might often be seen as an intractable problem because of its complexity–or one that costs more to solve than communities can afford–the program is proving that is not the case.

“By ending homelessness, we mean getting to a place where it’s rare, brief,
and it gets solved correctly and quickly when it does happen,” says Rosanne Haggerty, president of Community Solutions, the nonprofit that leads the Built for Zero program. “That’s a completely achievable end state, we now see.” The nonprofit, which calls this goal “functional zero,” announced that it is accelerating its work in 50 communities.
Here's how they did it.
Article by ADELE PETERS' 'WORLD CHANGING IDEAS'
via FAST COMPANY

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Community Solutions deploys the best problem-solving tools from multiple sectors to help communities end homelessness and the conditions that create it.

They're Reinventing 3D Printing:

Formlabs; a passionate team of engineers, designers, and problem-solvers.
 
Started out of MIT in 2011, Formlabs is now over 500 people across Boston, North Carolina, Hungary, Germany, Japan, and China. A company that is committed to bringing powerful and accessible fabrication tools into the creative hands of professionals around the world.

With the Form 2 SLA 3D printer, Fuse 1 SLS 3D printer, Form Cell manufacturing solution, and Pinshape marketplace of 3D designs, Formlabs is establishing the industry benchmark in professional 3D printing for professionals from a variety of industries. Formlabs also develop high-performance materials in-house, as well as best-in-class 3D printing software like PreForm and Dashboard.

"We believe in what we do, and we’re excited about creating powerful tools that change the way we work and live."-- Formlabs

High Resolution SLA and SLS 3D Printers for Professionals | Formlabs

Formlabs designs and manufacturers the Form 2 stereolithography (SLA) and Fuse 1 selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers for professionals.

Formlabs' Featured Blog and Interviews
Make sure to check out Formlabs' Careers page.
Peek behind the scenes in this recent Engineering Spotlight from Venture Fizz that details what it's like to work at Formlabs and see how it all started in Print the Legend on Netflix.
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What's Next? It’s 2039 and just about everything’s changed —

What the World Will Look Like in 20 Years: 8 Predictions
Articles by Max Read and David Wallace-Wells

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This month, writers of the Intelligencer tentatively dipped their toes into the New Year, wondering what horrors and highlights might await us in 2019 — the year that served as a setting, you may remember, for Blade Runner, Akira, and Running Man, three of the most iconic future-casting movies ever made and now divergent choose-your-own-dystopia visions of the years ahead (perhaps some more plausible than others).

They are also reminders that, though Americans today may have a hard time imagining a future all that different from the present — we dream less about flying cars and space travel than about somewhat improved health care and slightly more immersive video games — it was not all that long ago that we believed (sort of) those very wild futures were possible just a decade or two down the road. Which is part of what inspired us, this fall, to ask a panel of visionaries from the worlds of tech, sex, the law, and international affairs to make some pretty radical propositions about what the world could look like in 20 years. 
 The result was an eight-episode podcast called 2038.

Some predictions were cheekier than others, some scarier; on the occasion of the New Year, and the optimism and future panic it invariably brings. It’s 2039 and just about everything’s changed. The Intelligencer excerpted those predictions here:

8 Predictions for What the World Will Look Like in 20 Years

This month, we are all tentatively dipping our toes into the New Year, wondering what horrors and highlights might await us in 2019 - the year that served as a setting, you may remember, for Blade Runner, Akira, and Running Man, three of the most iconic future-casting movies ever made and now divergent choose-your-own-dystopia visions of the years ahead (perhaps some more plausible than others).

'A great read is the perfect gift'―

Microsoft co-founder Encourages the Gift of Reading;
Sharing the 5 best books he has read in 2018.

December 3, 2018
Article: Annabel Gutterman via TIME
Bill Gates announced his annual list of favorite books of 2018, perfectly timed for the holiday season. The Microsoft co-founder encourages the gift of reading with these five titles, which range from a memoir about the power of education to a guide to facing modern-day fears.

A great read is the perfect gift:
In a post detailing his picks on Gates Notes, the philanthropist acknowledges that he normally does not consider the “giftable” nature of a book, but his selections for 2018 can truly satisfy any reader. “If you’re looking for a fool-proof gift for your friends and family, you can’t go wrong with one of these,” he writes. Here, the five books Gates loved in 2018.

5 books I loved in 2018

Bill Gates shares the five books he loved in 2018.

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“A breath of immortality for everyone.”―

MOM: A breath of immortality for everyone.

Small tokens, scattered around the world, will guide future generations to the underground archive of forgotten knowledge (Credit: Memory of Mankind)

If you were to build your own time capsule, what would you want people—or alien beings—a million years from now to know about us? That we were loving, or warmongering, or dopes strung out on memes and viral videos? That we flew to the moon and made great art, ate Cinnabons (that we measured at 880 astonishing calories), and committed atrocities? How could you begin to represent these times, as lived by nearly 8 billion people? And what would give you, of all people, the right to tell the story?

After these questions would come to another wave of more logistical ones.
Assuming the capsule was found, how would it be translated into the language of the future, whatever that language might be? And what materials could be employed that might last that long? And how could you lead a future race of beings to the capsule itself, assuming our planet might be buried under ice or oceans of red sand by then? It's this very vision of an earth one million years from now that changed Martin Kunze's life forever.
Article: 'The Time Capsule That’s as Big as Human History'
By Michael Paterniti via GQ

Related Links
The world’s knowledge is being buried in a salt mine. By Richard Gray via BBC Future

Fearful of digital decay, a ceramicist wants to return data storage to a more lasting medium: clay. Article by Richard Kemeny via The Atlantic

If you do not take part, will never have existed!
The plaques are resistant to everything: pressure, burning heat, radiation and chemicals cannot harm the branded information.

Reporters traveled to Austria and found a project deep inside a salt mine trying to capture the human experience.

HALLSTATT, Austria — Deep in the Austrian Alps sits the beginnings of an international treasure.  Story by Rebekah Dare Guin via @anteksiler

The Memory of Mankind:
Which episodes of your life do you want to tell your grandchildren?
You can go now to the MOM website and type your deepest thoughts, which will be translated to a tablet for future finders to read. Some stories simply need to be externalized.

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This physical and analogue backup of our age
stored here in the salt mine of Hallstatt
will persist throughout all of time.

In MOM we will leave behind art
and culture, scientific insights
and medical knowledge.

But each and every individual
can write on this story and history.
Tell about your life,
your passions, your family,
your favorite recipes
or special experiences.

Our descendants in a distant future
will find this “treasure” one day.
“A breath of immortality for everyone.”― MOM

'Optimists see opportunities that are invisible to pessimists.'―

Deep Patel:
We are all searching for that elusive elixir that will help increase our wealth, gain success and live a life of contentment and peace. Who doesn’t want to find a way to have it all?

Part of the reason these things are difficult for us to achieve is that we never really define what our purpose is in life. We don’t really know ourselves, so we don’t really understand what makes us happy. And we don’t really want to do the hard work to get there.

There’s no magic formula to making all these things happen, but if you’re willing to open your mind and put in the time and effort, you can achieve nearly anything. Here are 16 life changing ways you can attain success, wealth and happiness and live your best life.

Deep Patel: 16 Mental Shifts

 

 

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16 Mental Shifts for Living a Happier, Wealthier, More Successful Life.
Citation: Deep Patel via Entrepreneur

Deep Patel: “Top 25 marketing influencer” 
An Entrepreneur's VIP Contributor.
“One of the top 11 youth marketers to follow”

Unlocking the Power of the World's Educators—

Teachers Pay Teachers: 'To make the expertise and wisdom of all the teachers in the world available to anyone, anywhere, at any time.' — TPT

Teachers Pay Teachers, an online platform that allows teachers to sell classroom resources they’ve created, such as worksheets and bulletin board decor. TpTs is the World's Most Popular Online Marketplace for Original Educational Resources

TpT is the go-to place for educators to find the resources, knowledge, and inspiration they need to teach at their best. Offering more than 3 million free and paid resources, created by educators who understand what works in the classroom. Teachers Pay Teachers marketplace is growing every day to meet the evolving needs of the PreK-12 classroom. When educators get the resources and support they need, they're best equipped to inspire the next generation of learners.

Julia Reinstein
BuzzFeed News Reporter Article: Teachers Are Moonlight To Make Ends Meet
If you saw Amy Groesbeck during school hours, you’d think she’s just your typical third-grade teacher.— Not!

A Platform for Sharing Educator Expertise
TpT believes that the best ideas and approaches to learning comes directly from educators who have experience teaching and connecting with students. Each resource on TpT is created by a Teacher-Author and is tailored to a unique need or niche.

When one teacher deeply understands how to bring rich, relevant, active learning to a classroom and shares that with other teachers around the globe, the benefits reach everyone, most of all the students. Today, the demands on teachers are as high as they’ve ever been. Many teach multiple subjects to a wide array of learners. Meanwhile, the standards — and even the educational environment — are changing rapidly. 
Through TpT: Teacher-Authors are able to respond to the changing landscape immediately.
Teachers provide feedback and support along the way, therefore; TpT's content continues to evolve and improve with every use.

'We believe that when teachers work together, great things happen.'
— Teachers Pay Teachers:

Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | Teachers Pay Teachers

World's most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than three million resources available for use today.

Reduce your exposures to common drinking water pollutants:

State of American Drinking Water

When most Americans drink a glass of tap water,
they're also getting a dose of industrial or agricultural contaminants linked to cancer, brain and nervous system damage, developmental defects, fertility problems or hormone disruption. That's the disturbing truth documented by EWG's Tap Water Database – the most complete source available on the quality of U.S. drinking water, aggregating and analyzing data from almost 50,000 public water utilities nationwide.

The vast majority of the nation's drinking water supplies
get a passing grade from federal and state regulatory agencies. However, many of the 250-plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.

Unanswered questions
Utilities must treat their water to meet state and federal standards before piping it into homes, schools and businesses, but water treatment chemicals can themselves produce other potentially harmful contaminants. Utilities must also provide annual water quality reports to their customers, but those reports leave many unanswered questions.

Related Article via NPR
Which Water Is Best For Health? Hint: Don't Discount The Tap

EWG'S GUIDE: SAFE DRINKING WATER
Reduce your exposures to common drinking water pollutants with EWG's handy tipsheet.
Includes the latest news, tips, action alerts, promotions and more - from EWG.

EWG's Tap Water Database: What's in Your Drinking Water?

Look up your local water system to find out which pollutants might be of concern, and find suggestions on the best kinds of home filters to remove those chemicals.

Sleeping At The Office: High-Tech Pods on the Rise

'Sleeping on the job is no longer frowned upon'
Office napping may finally be climbing out from under the desk.
A small but growing number of businesses are encouraging sleep-deprived employees to grab 40 winks during the workday, providing rooms — or, in some cases, high-tech napping pods — to get the job done right. Benefits include a more productive workforce and, hopefully, the end to stealth sales meeting snoozes.—
Citation: Article by Robert Channick via Chicago Tribune

High-Tech Pods: Biz-Office Napping

 Photo Courtesy: (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)

In response to growing demand for offices to dump the cubicle desk and foster a more welcoming environment for talent, two European manufacturers were among those unveiling new nap pods to the North American market at the annual NeoCon commercial interiors show in Chicago: Silence Business Solutions, and Framery.

On Monday Mornings: How do you feel? 
Framery Innovations;
tools for a happy workplace.
How do you feel on Monday mornings?
Studies show that most of us work for over 30 years of our lives.
That’s more than the time you spend with your partner, eating, travelling, exercising or watching movies – combined. However, research shows that most of us won’t go to work happily. Find out how Framery increases happiness at work and the tools used to achieve that.

A radical transparency
'One of the key things for a happy company is transparency.
Framery wanted to go further and developed a culture of radical transparency.
The idea was simple: Framery organization is truly flat – no strong hierarchy, no unnecessary middle management nor hidden secret processes. All the information can be found in Framery’s internal wiki page.'—Framery.

NeoCon: A Retrospective
NeoCon has provided a platform for ideas that have transformed the ways we live and work for the past 50 years. Through its first five decades, NeoCon has showcased commercial design’s response to technological advances, cultural change, and growing ecological consciousness. Retrospect: 50 Years of NeoCon, 1960 ― Present.

- NeoCon

NeoCon marks its 51st edition as the world's leading platform and most important event of the year for the commercial design industry.

An Idea Whose Time Has Come:

The 'Just City' Concept
The “just city” concept infuses social justice concerns throughout planning and design process. It’s a style Toni Griffin has been honing over nearly two decades while practicing as an architect, designer, and urban planner, leading major civic projects such as the Washington Nationals Ballpark District in D.C. and the Detroit Future City master plan.

(Harvard University Graduate School of Design)

Griffin has formed a pedagogy from this as well, drawing on her field experience to become the founding director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York in 2011.

Toni Griffin, one of the leading black women in architecture and design,
is leading her students at Harvard in envisioning and designing the "just city."
And it looks different in Boston than it does in Rotterdam.
Citation: In Search of the ‘Just City’ by Brentin Mock via CityLab

Imagine that the issues of race, income, education and unemployment inequality, and the resulting segregation, isolation and fear, could be addressed by designing for greater access, agency, ownership, beauty or empowerment.

Now imagine the Just City — the cities, neighborhoods and public spaces where all people, but especially the ‘least not' are included, have equitable and inclusive access to opportunities and tools that allow them to be productive, thrive and advance through the ranks of social and economic mobility. The Just City Lab investigates the concept:

Design and the Just City - Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Just City Lab investigates the concept of the Just City, and how design and planning contribute to the conditions of justice and injustice in cities, neighborhoods and the public realm. This exhibition presents our interrogation of whether design can have an impact on correcting urban injustice, inequality and disparity.