The Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act promised to open doors to healthcare for millions, but could it also be opening the floodgates to antibiotic overuse? In the United States, over 200 million antibiotic prescriptions are filled annually, fueling a dangerous rise in antibiotic-resistant infections that claim more than 35,000 lives each year. My… Read more »
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Words Like Bullets: 20 Years of Firearm Marketing Tactics
In the year 2021, Pew Research Center found that the United States reported almost 49,000 gun deaths, “a 23% increase since 2019, before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the CDC WISQARS Fatal Injury Reports, in 2003, there were approximately 30,000 gun deaths in the United States. The change from 2003 to 2021… Read more »
Decoding Benefit Corporations: State Laws, Political Influence, and Impact on the Nonprofit Sector
The benefit corporation is a new corporate form that offers a vehicle for for-profit companies to embed a social mission into their legal structure. Prior to the creation of this structure, for-profit companies were obligated to act in the best interests of their shareholders. Typically, this meant companies had to maximize profits, and in turn,… Read more »
Use it or Lose it! Language Revitalization Online
According to the most conservative estimates from the United Nations, over half of all languages in the world today will be extinct by the year 2100. Maintaining Indigenous languages involves providing uses for the language. Tribal natural resources departments can provide opportunities to engage with language through communicating local ecological knowledge with citizens through social… Read more »
Wee Beasties (Bacteria) and Climate Change Uncertainty
If you go off of weight alone, plants are by far the most prevalent life form on the planet, making up greater than 80% of the total biomass on Earth. This is intuitive as trees are known for being very heavy. What is less intuitive is that the second most prevalent form of life on… Read more »
Impacts of Indigenous peoples on Tree Species Distribution in Eastern North America
Have you ever taken a walk through a forest in the Midwest? Have you ever wondered what determines which species of trees are found where, within a given forest? The temperate forests of Eastern North America (ENA) comprise the second largest temperate forested region on Earth. Historically, regional species richness, composition and associations of tree… Read more »
The Keys to Increasing On-Campus Arts Attendance are Easier Than You Think
Since the turn of the 21st century, attendance at arts activities across the country has been on a steady decline. In 2002, the National Endowment of the Arts reported that 76.3% of adults participated in the arts at least once a year. By 2022, that number dropped to 47.9%. Although the lingering effects of the… Read more »
Now More Than Ever: Effective Avenues for Eliciting Climate Change Action in Gen Z
In 2020, the United Nations Development Programme and the University of Oxford surveyed 1.2 million people from 50 countries about climate change. The survey found that 72 percent of respondents in high-income countries believed in climate change and 72 percent of respondents in Western Europe and North America believed climate change to be… Read more »
How Might Public Interaction Shape the Motivations of Front Line Bureaucrats?
Imagine that you’re a city employee whose job is to answer questions from citizens. Every day, you sit at your desk from 9:00 to 5:00, answering calls from concerned citizens. Today, multiple people called to complain that their trash wasn’t picked up. Another person called to report littering at a city park. Someone else… Read more »
The Future (In Medicine) Is Female
Picture yourself receiving healthcare. Who is your physician? Do you see a man or a woman? That may depend on the medical specialty. If you are a woman seeing your gynecologist, do you see a man or woman? Likewise, if you are a man seeing your cardiologist, do you see a man or woman? Men… Read more »