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‘One of the biggest problems confronting medicine today’: University of Chicago offers class on misinformation

CHICAGO -- Patients have long been told to turn to their doctors for accurate, trusted health information.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 7, 2022

Fall classical music guide 2022: Collaborative Works Festival showcases Chicago composers, poets

Riccardo Muti’s last season as music director of the CSO, and Lyric Opera’s “Don Carlo” are also among the highlights of the season.

Chicago Sun-Times · Sep 2, 2022

Secretive GOP billionaire's $1.6B gift

Industrialist Barre Seid gave $1.6 billion to new group run by Federalist Society co-chair Leonard Leo

Salon · Aug 24, 2022

‘Hoop Dreams’ filmmaker Steve James to premiere new project at the Venice Film Festival on atomic spy Theodore Hall

CHICAGO — The new Steve James documentary “A Compassionate Spy,” about the Manhattan Project physicist, Soviet spy and University of Chicago alum Theodore Hall, has been selected for the documentary slate of the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 29, 2022

Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century

On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After placing a dozen dishes filled with strawberry jam atop several picnic tables, biologist Charles Henry Turner retreated…

The Conversation · Jul 29, 2022

Chile is updating its constitution for the 21st century. The US should follow its lead

The US constitution used to be considered a model for democracies around the world – but its antiquated institutions and absence of rights have guaranteed its declining influence

The Guardian - US · Jul 28, 2022

New Study Of South China Ancient Human DNA Hints At Native Americans’ East Asian Roots

A statement from Cell Press quotes study co-author Bing Su as saying: “Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool.

Zenger · Jul 27, 2022

This 365-million-year-old fish fossil reveals how life came to land

A new study describes a new fish species that likely preceded the species that came on land.

Inverse · Jul 22, 2022

Renowned scholar and cardiac expert to lead University of Chicago Medicine

Mark Anderson will oversee medical and biological research, education, care delivery and community engagement for UChicago Medicine, the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 19, 2022

15-year-old boy critically wounded in Grand Crossing shooting

The teen was on the sidewalk in the 1000 block of East 73rd Street Monday evening when someone in a red sedan opened fire, striking him in the chest, armpit and left leg, police said.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 19, 2022