Alaska’s health department reports that the first person in the state has died from a recently discovered virus called Alaskapox. The elderly man—who was immunocompromised due to cancer treatments—first noticed…
Day: February 13, 2024
Supporting innovations in cancer treatment and prevention for our nation’s most vulnerable
By KAT MCDAVITT and LESLIE KIRK Innsena has made a $100,000 contribution to CancerX, making Innsena the public-private partnership’s first Impact Supporter. Why? There are few conditions in which the…
Why People Love Snow So Much
When it’s dark outside in Anchorage, Alaska, therapist Karen Cunningham pulls on long johns, one of her 16 pairs of snow pants, a hat, gloves, her warmest coat, and snow…
Who’s behind a ballot initiative to repeal Michigan’s renewable energy siting laws?
This article was originally published by Planet Detroit. A new Michigan ballot initiative aims to overturn legislation passed late last year giving state regulators, not municipal governments, final say over…
For a Chicago artist, Afrofuturism inspires a vision for confronting climate change
As a longtime fan of George Clinton — a funk pioneer who bent and blended multiple music genres with science fiction imagery — Chicago-based artist Cydney Lewis always had a…
The 2024 Word of the Year: Missense
By MIKE MAGEE Not surprisingly, my nominee for “word of the year” involves AI, and specifically “the language of human biology.” As Eliezer Yudkowski, the founder of the Machine Intelligence Research…
Ex-First Energy executives, Ohio utility regulator charged by state in bailout and bribery scandal
This article was originally published by the Ohio Capital Journal. Ohio law enforcement authorities on Monday filed numerous felony charges against two former First Energy executives and a former top…