(2022-09-01). Berlin Senate imposes education cuts and encourages the contamination of the city schools. wsws.org In the face of growing criticism of the Senate's irresponsible policy, Education Senator Astrid-Sabine Busse (SPD) and the city's mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) confront pupils, parents and teachers with outright hostility.
(2022-09-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: Helping your child with back-to-school anxiety. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Most kids are eager for the last day of school and the start of summer vacation. But this time of year, there are many students who might not look forward to returning to the classroom, in part because of separation anxiety. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute youtu.be/C_wvC0NAgy8 Journalists: Broadcast-quality video (1: 07) is in the downloads at the end of this post. Please courtesy: "Mayo Clinic News Network." Read the script. By the time the first…
(2022-09-01). National Institutes of Health renews Mayo Clinic's $48 million Clinical and Translational Science Award. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic announced today that its Center for Clinical and Translational Science has successfully renewed funding for its research grant from the National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for five more years. The funding award, totaling $48.2 million, is one of Mayo's largest NIH grants, supporting research and education across the institution at that aims to accelerate innovation to improve patient care and health for all people. "We…
(2022-09-01). Detailed plans urged for safe start to new school semester nationwide. ecns.cn As schools and universities across the country prepare for the new school year, the Ministry of Education has required strict implementation of epidemic containment measures to make sure there will be no large-scale outbreak on campuses.
(2022-09-01). Only a progressive tax revolution can stop climate collapse. indybay.org There is an urgent need for a pluralistic opening of the economic sciences, so that the argumentative dispute about the ethically correct interpretation of market-competitive interaction relations and the status of market logic again becomes a normal part of economic discourse.
(2022-09-01). Science Saturday: Researchers validate threshold for determining effectiveness of antidepressant treatment. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Over one-third of people diagnosed with major depressive disorder don't respond sufficiently to specific antidepressant treatments. As a result, often patients need to try different options until they find one that is effective. There are validated definitions of good treatment effects. But the definition of ineffective treatment has been less clear, says William Bobo, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at Mayo Clinic in Florida. "A common assumption is that a nonresponse to antidepressants is a total lack of any…
(2022-09-01). Sunday 9/11: The Other 9/11 — the AFL-CIO's support for the 1973 US coup in Chile betrayed workers. indybay.org us02web.zoom.us/j/3290219617?pwd=OTFGZUV……
(2022-09-01). Mayo Clinic Minute: The 3 best ways to keep kids healthy when heading back to school. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Making sure kids are prepared to head back to school means more than just getting them the school supplies they need. Caregivers also will want to make sure their students are on track to have a healthy school year and help them avoid many viral illnesses that tend to circulate when young people gather in classrooms and day care facilities.In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Nipunie Rajapakse, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Mayo Clinic's Children's…
(2022-08-31). Betting On A Wall Street Path To Congress. levernews.com In one of 2022's final contested congressional primaries between progressives and the Democratic establishment, party leaders are coalescing around a Rhode Island official who has used retirees' savings to pay more than a half a billion dollars in fees for high-risk financial investments.The schemes backed by General Treasurer Seth Magaziner delivered subpar returns for teachers, firefighters, and other public-sector workers already hit by
(2022-08-31). Sri Lanka: The Struggle Continues. libya360.wordpress.com Rasika Ruwanpathirana Sri Lankan university students take part in a demonstration in Colombo on Aug. 18 Recent news of people overrunning the presidential palace in Sri Lanka, followed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fleeing the country, took Western media by storm. What is not reported is the ongoing police repression by the current president, Ranil Wickremesinghe….
(2022-08-31). CovertAction Bulletin: The Truth Behind the Africa-China 'Debt Trap' Myth. covertactionmagazine.com Allegations and accusations that China is trapping Africa into unsustainable debt agreements have dominated the conversation around Africa-China relations in Western media, but what does the data tell us? The reality is that China is canceling 23 loans to African countries amid this 'Debt Trap' debate. We look at the international implications of this claim, what debt trap diplomacy is, and who owns most of Africa's external debts. Featuring Sri Lanka, the African Development Bank, and the "secret" lenders they don't tell us about, with Mikaela Nhondo Erskog researcher at TriContinental Institute for Social Resea…
(2022-08-31). Australian Scientists to Harvest Resources From Wastewater. telesurenglish.net A team of Australian scientists has been awarded funding to develop technology that harvests resources from wastewater. | RELATED: | The Australian National University (ANU) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) on Wednesday announced over US$685,000 in funding for the inaugural ANU-CSIRO Agri-Food Collaboration Program. | Inspired by breakthroughs in biological research, the team will seek to address the…
(2022-08-31). Over One Million Bolivians Mobilize To Support President Arce's Government. popularresistance.org On Thursday, August 25, under the banner of 'March in Defense of Democracy and Economic Reconstruction', over one million Bolivians mobilized in support of the government of President Luis Arce and Vice President David Choquehuanca and its socialist economic policies. | Workers from diverse sectors, peasants, students, and members of various Indigenous organizations and social movements from all nine departments of the country arrived in capital La Paz to ratify their support for the national government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party. | The call for the march was given by the Pact of Unity (…
(2022-08-31). Russian FM Says Russia Can Only Rely on Itself. telesurenglish.net Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday at the educational marathon Znaniye (Knowledge) that the Russian Federation is living in a scenario where it can only rely on itself. | RELATED: | "As we can see, the West's reaction to the implementation of the special military operation's goals clearly shows that from the very outset, the tasks of the West were global and aimed at weakening, and, as some political scienti…
(2022-08-31). US Funded Research On "Coronavirus Induced Myocarditis", FDA Authorized New Jab & The Green Police. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (8/31/22). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth
(2022-08-31). Hip fracture recovery varies widely across NHS hospitals. healtheuropa.com 
Research has found that hip fracture recovery varies between NHS hospitals in England and Wales, and in some hospitals, one in ten patients die within one month. Hip fractures are cracks or breaks in the femur close to the hip joint. They are typically caused by a fall or injury, which are common amongst older …
(2022-08-31). Understanding the early stages of Alzheimer's with 3D imaging. healtheuropa.com 
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden are using novel 3D imaging technology to better understand the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. Using new 3D imaging technology, researchers have been able to comprehensively characterise the part of the brain that may show the earliest accumulation of tau protein, an important biomarker in the early stages of …
(2022-08-31). Preview: Will Job Growth Finally Slow? cepr.net (The monthly Employment Situation is scheduled for release by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, September 2nd, at 8: 30 AM Eastern Time.) | The two big questions that the Federal Reserve Board, and just about everyone else, will be asking with the August jobs numbers are: "Is job growth slowing to a sustainable pace?" and "Is wage growth falling back to a more normal rate?" | The 528,000 new jobs reported for July pushed total employment above the pre-pandemic level, but it is clearly not a sustainable growth rate for an economy with a 3.5 percent unemployment rate. (The preliminary benchmark revisions ann…
(2022-08-31). In OtherWords: August 31, 2022. otherwords.org It's back to school season, so this week we're proud to offer a suite of bold opinions on issues facing students, teachers, and the communities they serve. | First, Olivia Alperstein talks about But students aren't the only ones just scraping by. Bella DeVaan and Rebekah Entralgo explain how low wages and burnout are driving teachers out of the profession. But just in time for Labor Day, they also r…
(2022-08-31). Schools Won't Be Safe Until Lawmakers Respect Students. otherwords.org This fall, students are heading back to school with the memory of the Uvalde, Texas shooting still fresh. Instead of excitement about new backpacks and first-day-of-school outfits, many children and their families are worrying about safety. | Unfortunately, while students took their summer break, lawmakers at all levels were hard at work passing laws that will make schools less safe. | Congress, for example, passed the
(2022-08-31). MBTA Orange Line shutdown: The breakdown of Boston-area public transit. wsws.org The shutdown of the Orange Line, combined with cutbacks in Boston-area bus routes, coincides with the new year of Boston Public Schools as well as the move-in of tens of thousands of college and university students.
(2022-08-31). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Police savagely attacked a protest over soaring fuel and food costs in Haiti, while teachers in Uruguay held a nationwide protest strike over budget cuts last week.
(2022-08-31). Iran, Lebanon review bilateral ties, ongoing JCPOA talks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 31 (MNA) — Iranian envoy to Lebanon and Lebanese Minister of Education reviewed the latest status of bilateral relations, ongoing JCPOA talks as well as Tehran-Riyadh talks.
(2022-08-31). University of Michigan ends all COVID-19 protection measures as Fall semester begins. wsws.org As tens of thousands of students and staff return to U-M's campuses, the administration is taking further measures to uphold the homicidal ruling class policy of mass infection amid two pandemics.
(2022-08-31). Chinese researchers develop anti-SARS-CoV-2 nanomaterial. ecns.cn Chinese researchers have recently developed a nanomaterial that targets the spike protein of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Delta and Omicron, and promotes viral elimination.
(2022-08-31). Mexico's "Truth Commission" on 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students—what it does and does not reveal. wsws.org While the government moves against lower ranking state and military officials involved in the killing of the students and its cover-up, those implicated at the top will remain untouched.
(2022-08-31). University of Minnesota Teamsters picket, march against poverty wages. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN — More than 300 University of Minnesota (UMN) service workers represented by Teamsters Local 320, along with members AFSCME, students, faculty, and others, protested on the school's campus, August 30, to demand an end to poverty wages and abusive employment practices. | Local 320 represents 1500 workers at UMN who clean buildings, service dormitories, maintain grounds, prepare food, maintain HVAC systems, care for research animals, drive trucks, and perform other activities across the university's five campuses. Many of the workers are Black, including immigrants from Somalia, Ethiopia and…
(2022-08-31). Virtual AI singer Luya enrolls in Shanghai Conservatory of Music. ecns.cn Virtual singer Luya enrolled in the Shanghai Conservatory of Music on Monday to participate in music-related research in artificial intelligence (AI).
(2022-08-31). U.S. murder rates still up in 2021: CNBC. ecns.cn There were 6 percent more murders nationally in 2021 than in 2020, a troubling statistic, but it was modest in comparison with the prior year, when the U.S. murder rate climbed nearly 30 percent, a year-over-year record, reported CNBC in mid-August.
(2022-08-30). Organizers Have Fought For Debt Cancellation For Over A Decade. popularresistance.org Following over a decade of activism against the United States' massive student debt crisis, President Biden announced a plan on Wednesday to cancel a significant amount of student loan debt for tens of millions of low and middle-income Americans. | Many organizers, whose work made the announcement possible, have viewed the news as a major victory for their movement. However, they also see it as just a small first step in a country where many borrowers — especially Black and Brown borrowers — are saddled with far deeper debts, and the root causes of educational inequity remain largely unaddressed. | "T…
(2022-08-30). Could genetic testing before pregnancy reduce the risk of serious illness? healtheuropa.com Genetic testing before pregnancy could be useful to discover unknown hereditary diseases and possible risks before conception. The use of genetic testing is commonly used in pregnancy; however, this usually occurs once the woman is pregnant. This led researchers from the University of Zurich to explore the impact of genetic testing on both parents' genes …
(2022-08-30). If Biden Can Cancel Some Student Debt, He Can Cancel All Student Debt In The US. popularresistance.org "I cosigned for 70K in loans to put my disabled grandchild through a private college that would meet his specific needs," said a 70-year-old debtor I met during the Debt Collective's virtual older debtors' assembly in mid-August. "I don't think I'll be able to pay off these loans in my lifetime," another debtor told me. | As I listened to these stories in a Zoom breakout room, I couldn't help but feel overwhelmed by the conclusion that debt controls the lives of millions of people in the U.S., especially our most vulnerable. The Debt Collective, the nation's first debtors' union, is known for opening and facilita…