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Automation isn’t wiping out jobs. It’s that our engine of growth is winding down
Jan 29, 2020 06:53In the context of economic stagnation, even small increases in productivity are enough to destroy more manufacturing jobs than are created. The best explanation for this worsening economic stagnation is that, since the 1970s, more and more countries adopted export-led growth strategies, built up manufacturing sectors and began to compete in global markets. In this context, countries with high levels of robotization are not necessarily the ones that have lost the most industrial jobs.
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Lyme disease patients fight for their lives while academics fight each other
Jan 29, 2020 06:51A study from Johns Hopkins demonstrated that 23 percent of Lyme rashes are not properly diagnosed. The blood tests used to diagnose Lyme are four decades old and unacceptably inaccurate: A review of eight studies that evaluated the effectiveness of these tests revealed that they miss more cases than they diagnose. The result is that many people go undiagnosed and misdiagnosed, leading to a life that can be devastatingly altered or worse.
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Extreme snowfall kept most plants and animals in one arctic ecosystem from reproducing
Jan 27, 2020 12:25A study published October 15 in PLOS Biology documents an ecosystem-wide reproductive collapse around Zackenberg in 2018. Reneerkens and colleagues found out that most plants and animals, including everything from arctic foxes to tiny Dryas flowers, failed to reproduce that year, because an extremely snowy winter left much of the ground covered with snow well into summer.
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Nearly 20 soldiers killed in terrorist attack on Mali army camp
Jan 26, 2020 11:22Nearly twenty soldiers have been killed and several others wounded in an attack on an army camp in central Mali before dawn on Sunday, an army spokesman and a local official said.
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Natural disasters, violence keep millions in near-constant crisis in Horn of Africa
Jan 19, 2020 08:32Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are trapped in near-constant crisis as the combination of droughts, floods, and violence force people from their homes and erode already-fragile livelihoods, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer said at the end of a visit to the region on Wednesday.
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Two new satellites to be launched this year to track Earth’s rising oceans
Jan 19, 2020 06:01Josh Willis, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement “Global sea level is, in a way, the most complete measure of how humans are changing the climate.”
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Body temperature: What is the new normal?
Jan 15, 2020 12:43Body temperature can indicate and be influenced by many factors; lifestyle habits, age, and ambient temperature can all influence how our body disperses heat. Body temperature is also a marker of metabolic health.
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Debt will kill the global economy, but it seems no one cares
Jan 10, 2020 06:03The World Bank said emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) had pushed their borrowing to a record $55 trillion (£42 trillion) in 2018.
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People with mental illness less likely to get cancer screening
Jan 06, 2020 12:59Lead author Dr. Marco Solmi, a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Padua in Italy and colleagues said: “Early cancer screening has been shown to reduce mortality, and delayed cancer diagnosis among people with mental illness could be one reason they are also more likely to die of cancer than the general population.”
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Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorists attack base used by American, Kenyan troops
Jan 05, 2020 10:04Militants of the Somalia-based al-Shabab terrorist group have launched an attack against a military base used by US and Kenyan forces in neighboring Kenya, with conflicting accounts of the aftermath.