https://scienceblogs.com/ en https://scienceblogs.com/thepumphandle/2013/09/11/worth-reading-12-years-after-911-poverty-and-the-brain-and-14-lifesaving-ideas <span>Worth reading: 12 years after 9/11, poverty and the brain, and 14 lifesaving ideas </span> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>A few of the recent pieces I've liked:</p> <p>Dorry Samuels Levine at National COSH: <a href="http://www.coshnetwork.org/12th-anniversary-september-11-attacks-more-1100-reported-cases-cancer-among-responders-and-survivors">On 12th anniversary of September 11 attacks, more than 1,100 reported cases of cancer among responders and survivors</a></p> <p>Emily Badger at The Atlantic Cities: <a href="http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/08/how-poverty-taxes-brain/6716/">How Poverty Taxes the Brain</a></p> <p>Laura Helmuth at Slate: <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/life_saving_inventions_people_and_ideas_cotton_shoes_fluoride_the_clean.html">Fourteen Oddball Reasons You're Not Dead Yet</a></p> <p>Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post's Wonkblog: <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/09/how-the-cult-of-shareholder-value-wrecked-american-business/">How the cult of shareholder value wrecked American business</a></p> <p>Lisa Schnirring at CIDRAP: CDC head: <a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/09/cdc-head-global-disease-threats-call-better-tools">Global disease threats call for better tools</a></p> <p>Steven Wilmsen at Reporting on Health: <a href="http://www.reportingonhealth.org/resources/lessons/immersive-coverage-health-issues-particularly-underserved-communities?utm_source=ROH+newsletter+9%2F4%2F2013&amp;utm_campaign=Newsletter120822&amp;utm_medium=email">Immersive coverage of health issues, particularly in underserved communities: The pros and cons of embedding reporters</a> (The piece describes the extensive reporting efforts behind an in-depth Boston Globe series,<a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/specials/68blocks"> 68 Blocks: Life, Death, and Hope</a>, about the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood where violence has been a persistent problem. That series is well worth a read, too.)</p> </div> <span><a title="View user profile." href="/author/lborkowski" lang="" about="/author/lborkowski" typeof="schema:Person" property="schema:name" datatype="">lborkowski</a></span> <span>Wed, 09/11/2013 - 10:18</span> <div class="field field--name-field-blog-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-inline"> <div class="field--label">Tags</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/public-health-general" hreflang="en">Public Health - General</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/first-responders" hreflang="en">first responders</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/global-disease" hreflang="en">global disease</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/journalism" hreflang="en">Journalism</a></div> <div class="field--item"><a href="/tag/poverty" hreflang="en">poverty</a></div> </div> </div> <section> </section> <ul class="links inline list-inline"><li class="comment-forbidden"><a href="/user/login?destination=/thepumphandle/2013/09/11/worth-reading-12-years-after-911-poverty-and-the-brain-and-14-lifesaving-ideas%23comment-form">Log in</a> to post comments</li></ul> Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:18:43 +0000 lborkowski 61920 at https://scienceblogs.com