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An interesting series on Food Justice & Communities featuring chefs/activists in Washington, D.C. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-associates/2022/02/07/explore-how-women-chefs-achieve-food-justice-and-community-empowerment/?fbclid=IwAR0-HaMFbByiU4mbv91b6Yj4muxtjhQV2FH8RYu4Xq-de4x9ipXFjLW4SEo

Explore How Women Chefs Achieve Food Justice and Community Empowerment Chefs Paola Velez, Juliet “JuJu” Harris, and Janet Yu shed light on their personal stories, activism, and advocacy

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After Whistle-Blower Goes Public, Facebook Tries Calming Employees Employees are divided over Frances Haugen, a former product manager who testified that the company was putting profit before safety.

Longevity...a free webinar how society can support longer lives.

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The doubling of life expectancy in the US counts as one of the great achievements in human history, but it has come with such speed that social institutions, economic policies and social norms developed for lives that were half as long are no longer up for the task. Over the last several years, researchers at the Stanford Center on Longevity have been thinking through a New Map of Life that supports a longer-lived society that is healthier, more productive and more equitable.

September marks the release of the first report on the . Join U.S. Senator Bob Casey(D-PA), Chair of the Senate Aging Committee, 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻, founding Director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, and other experts on September 22nd for a discussion of social infrastructure and the investments and policies beginning in early childhood that can contribute to a better, more robust life course.

WEBINAR: Social Infrastructure and the New Map of Life
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📌 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_uSbBnz2aSCa-ANZ_BVPthQ

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Journalism, Alden: You know where this is headed.

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It's Earth Month! Here are some tips to help pollinators.

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Remember the nightmare about the U.S. supply chain for testing products? Let's hope this is just the start of U.S. production.

HHS and DOD Award $11.6 Million Contract to Puritan Medical Products to Boost U.S. Production of Swabs for Cue Health COVID-19 Tests The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) have jointly awarded an $11.6 million contract to Puritan Medical Products Company, LLC, to expand domestic production capacity of Cue Sample Wands, the nasal swabs used exclusively with the COVID-19 cart...

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Art connections: Photos of smiling faces help patients & their providers relate during our mask-wearing days.

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