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#BecauseOfHerWeCan: Trailblazing Indigenous Australian women celebrated on Twitter

sudshr47 July 13, 2018

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The UK’s new Minister of Loneliness to battle ‘a poison to humans’

sudshr47 January 21, 2018

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Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed an official “minister of loneliness” to the government. 

It’s not as bizarre as one might think at first. In fact, experts who study the health effects of chronic loneliness are cheering the move. 

Combating a disease whose cause isn’t so outwardly pernicious — like cigarette use or alcoholism — is expected to be a challenging task, but one scientists and doctors say is critical. Isolation from others makes us sick, and can cause direct, often deadly harm to our bodies.

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Gun sales spiked after Sandy Hook. So did people being shot and killed.

sudshr47 December 7, 2017

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Gun sales in the United States spiked dramatically after a shooter walked into Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 and killed 26 people, 20 of whom were children. Now researchers say that as a result of that rush in gun purchases, 60 additional Americans — 20 of whom were children — were killed by accidental gunshots.

Five months after the tragedy, three million guns — that’s three million more than the normal rate of gun buying in the U.S. — left stores and entered people’s homes (or wherever they chose to keep them). In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers show that the spike in accidental gun fatalities was almost certainly caused by this simultaneous increase in the number of guns generally around, and apparently not locked up.  Read more…

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These communities for the homeless were designed by students

sudshr47 November 17, 2017

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Homes for Hope was created by USC School of Architecture students during the Fall 2016 semester. The course, called The Homeless Studio, was funded by the Martin Architecture and Design Workshop (MADWORKSHOP) and led by MADWORKSHOP director Sofia Borges and board member R. Scott Mitchell.  

The founders of MADWORKSHOP, David and Mary Martin, wanted to empower students to do something about the homelessness situation, starting in Los Angeles. 

Homes for Hope uses modular, transitional stabilization housing to assemble pop-up villages. It is currently in the initial fundraising stage.

“All of the focus is towards permanent supportive housing, which is important, but it’s not an either/or, or and/or but. We need both. We need something to happen right away, and we need to have something happen in the long term.” — Sofia Borges, MADWORKSHOP director Read more…

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