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A Dirty Job—With Bright Results
Are you one of the millions of people who have ever had strep throat? Or pink eye? Or a urinary tract infection? If so, chances are good that antibiotics helped you get better.
Tailoring a New White Coat
Our health is precious to us. And choosing a medical doctor is essential, yet personal. But for many members of minority communities, it can be difficult to find a skilled physician who shares their background and identifies with their challenges.
How Do We Live and Thrive in a World with AI?
Artificial intelligence could write this article and you might not even notice. AI is getting so good—some might say scary good—that the line between humans and technology seems blurrier than ever before.
Finding Fibbers
Baloney, hogwash, hooey, rubbish, poppycock, bull. Call it what you will, disinformation is a problem. The proliferation of provably false information is only growing and becoming more subtle, sophisticated, and subversive.
A Mindful Approach to Mental Health
If you’ve noticed terms such as “self-care” becoming more prevalent in our cultural lexicon, it’s for good reason. According to IU Distinguished Professor of Sociology Bernice Pescosolido, mental health is finally—and fortunately—having its moment.
Educating Entrepreneurs Like Nobody’s Business
The Business Opportunities for Self-Starters program at IU East (BOSS for short) imparts this fundamental lesson to local high school students by teaching economics, entrepreneurship, and, yes, how to write a business plan.
IUPUI Researchers See Promise in the Guts of Blow Flies
Could blow flies become a critical line of defense in wartime? Absolutely, say IUPUI researchers. A team from IUPUI’s Forensic and Investigative Sciences Program has uncovered the ability of blow flies to detect chemicals, including chemical warfare agents, in the environment.
Our Cosmic Cleanup Problem—And Its IU-Led Solution
Floating miles above your head at this very moment are more than 34,000 pieces of space debris. It’s estimated that there are an additional 128 million smaller fragments hurtling around the Earth.