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Teenager who was sacked after wearing trainers to work wins £30,000 payout for 'victimisation'

A teenager who was sacked after wearing trainers to work has won nearly £30,000 after she was 'unfairly tackled' over the issue, a tribunal heard. When she was dismissed from the recruitment company after just three months, Ms Benassi took them to an employment tribunal and her claims have now been upheld by a judge who said bosses had a …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

She went to prison in Varsity Blues admissions scandal. Now she says she was a scapegoat

LA Times

When Donna Heinel arrived at the federal prison camp in Victorville last year to serve a six-month sentence for fraud stemming from the Varsity Blues admissions scandal, she resolved to spend the time productively. Prosecutors in the criminal case against Heinel said that, even though the money went to the university, she saw a personal benefit because bringing in the …

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1 month ago

Pearl Young became the first woman to work in a technical role at NASA

Raw Story

Thirteen years before any other woman joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – or the NACA, NASA’s predecessor – in a technical role, a young lab assistant named Pearl Young was making waves in the agency. Pearl Young Papers collection in UND's Special Collections Becoming a technical editor Despite the hostile culture for women, Young successfully navigated multiple technical …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Former NSW Police officers say racist culture leading to higher Indigenous incarceration rates

ABC

Two Indigenous former NSW Police officers say the country's largest police force has an overtly racist culture and it's contributing to the increasingly high incarceration rate of First Nations people in the state. In a statement to ABC News, Commissioner Webb said "there is absolutely no place for racism or discrimination of any kind in the NSW Police Force". Former …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown

NPR

The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown toggle caption Thure de Thulstrup/Getty Images This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. In making his case against Sumner's bill to open a pathway to citizenship for Chinese immigrants, Senator William Morris Stewart warned that the West Coast would be "overpowered by the mob element that seeks to exterminate …

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What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common

NPR

What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common toggle caption Ruiqi Li/Dakota McCoy Healthy corals are colorful and full of life. "These strange little clams are a little bit tougher than corals," says McCoy, "even though they host the same type of algae inside their cells that corals do." Sponsor Message An instrument called a spectrophotometer, "can …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Election 2024: A Nebraska court victory for voting rights could just swing the whole election.

Slate

Back in July, Nebraska state officials illegally suspended the right to vote for tens of thousands of people. In a major 5–2 decision handed down Wednesday, the state Supreme Court ordered them to restore voting rights to citizens who have completed their criminal sentences, just nine days before the state’s voter registration deadline. In response to this letter, Secretary of …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

How Israel’s War in Gaza Ripped a Major Abortion Fund Apart

Slate

It all started with an Instagram post. One of those values is reproductive justice, which, according to the DCAF website, includes the right to “parent the children you have in safe and sustainable communities.” Another DCAF value is intersectionality, which its website describes as seeking to “align ourselves with all movements for liberation, near and far.” By late October 2023, …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Be grateful for what you have. It may help you live longer

LA Times

In a study of nearly 50,000 nurses, the more gratitude people felt, the lower their risk of death. “It’s an exciting study,” said Joel Wong, a professor of counseling psychology at Indiana University who researches gratitude interventions and practices and wasn’t involved in the new work. “It’s not surprising, but it’s always good to see empirical research supporting the idea …

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7 months ago

Problematics | To eat ice cream or not to...

Hindustan Times

Is a mathematical puzzle easier to solve than a word puzzle that requires you to derive a word or phrase from clues about the letters? They order different main courses, which is not relevant to this puzzle, after which each one may or may not order ice cream, which is relevant. The woman from Andhra Pradesh orders ice cream only …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

An overlooked molecule could help solve the Venus water mystery

The Hindu

More than four billion years ago, Venus had enough water to cover its surface with an ocean 3 km deep. The team’s findings, reported in a paper in Nature, could plug a long-standing gap between the amount of water scientists expected Venus to have lost in the last 4.5 billion years and how much satellite observations say the planet has …

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9 months ago

A detective's pursuit of justice

China Daily

Clockwise from top left: Zhang Hui hikes through the mountains to reach a crime scene. It also underscored Zhang's dedication as an experienced criminal investigation expert since 2015 — someone who has encountered various crime scenes, unraveling clues to ensure that criminals are held accountable and victims receive justice. "The process of inspecting, fixing, and testing physical evidence challenges an …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Woman dances to Khalasi in office, people have a lot to say about her colleagues’ reactions

Hindustan Times

A video of a woman dancing to the Coke Studio song Khalasi was shared on social media. The video shows her dancing to the song while in her office in front of her colleagues. Instagram user Khushi, whose bio says she is a dancer, shared the video. “I want to ignore all my problems the way you ignored surrounding people’s …

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11 months ago

Ketanji Brown Jackson was 'throwing shade' at her colleagues in Trump hearing: expert

Raw Story

The Supreme Court looks poised to let former President Donald Trump back on the ballot after hearing a review of the Colorado decision banning him under the Fourteenth Amendment — but Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wants them to do it the right way. New York University law professor and MSNBC legal commentator Melissa Murray explained to anchor Ari …

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1 year ago

Popular myths about sleep, debunked : Life Kit

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1 year, 1 month ago

As retailer REI’s troubles with employees continue, consumers back off

Al Jazeera

Once known as the beacon of corporate America, REI is now embroiled in face-offs with employees, putting off consumers. Banking on REI’s reputation as a progressive company, Chang says she hoped they would operate in good faith on union negotiations, but that hasn’t been her experience. In an investor release, the company said that “in 2022, REI put an additional …

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1 year, 1 month ago

The 5 things kids ask when they're grieving

ABC

Sana Qadar: Do you remember your first experience of death as a kid? Lauren Breen: Yeah, and I think because we don't talk about it and I think, you know, children understandably might not want to talk about it. Lauren Breen: Yeah, one of the things that people actually have a lot of questions about is whether or not children …

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1 year, 4 months ago

In a historic victory, Hakki Pikki, Iruliga tribes secure land ownership in Bannerghatta National Park

The Hindu

Published : Aug 24, 2023 19:48 IST - 9 MINS READ Chikmadaiah, an Iruliga tribal man who guessed that he was around 65 years old, lives in the Hakki Pikki colony located on the edge of the Bannerghatta National Park around 40 kilometres from central Bengaluru. “I came to this colony 60 years ago, and even though the land belongs …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Indian-origin doctor helps catch ‘evil’ nurse Lucy Letby who killed seven babies in U.K.

The Hindu

A U.K.-born Indian-origin consultant paediatrician at a hospital in northern England is among those who raised concerns and helped convict a nurse found guilty of killing seven babies by a U.K. court on August 18. Dr. Ravi Jayaram, from the Countess of Chester Hospital in Chester, said some of those lives could have been saved if his concerns about former …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Indian-origin UK doctor helped catch nurse who killed 7 newborns in a year

Firstpost

During her trial, which began in October last year, Manchester Crown Court heard that doctors at the hospital began to notice a significant rise in the number of babies who were dying or were unexpectedly collapsing A UK-born Indian-origin consultant pediatrician at a hospital in northern England is among those who raised concerns and helped convict a nurse found guilty …

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1 year, 4 months ago

'If you want to call that a cover up, then that's a cover up': Doctor who raised the alarm over Lucy Letby accuses NHS trust of 'engineering narrative' to avoid police action - after TV doctor Dr Ravi

Daily Mail

The lead consultant on Lucy Letby's neo-natal ward last night accused hospital bosses of launching a 'cover up' in a bid to hide the killer's evil actions from police after he, TV's Dr Ravi Jayaram and five other doctors were forced to apologise to her. Children's nurse Lucy Letby went on a year-long killing spree while working at the Countess …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Trump’s Jan. 6 Recusal Play Has No Chance

Slate

When Judge Tanya Chutkan admonished former President Donald Trump last week in open court to avoid making “inflammatory” statements that might threaten the integrity of the judicial process during the period of his Jan. 6 prosecution and trial, he afforded her all the respect and courtesy he typically gives judges. As a rule, “judicial remarks during the course of a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

As she pushes for new homeless housing, Yaroslavsky shifts gears on no-camping zones

LA Times

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. Six months ago, Los Angeles City Councilmember Katy Yaroslavsky took a firm stand on the city’s law regulating homeless encampments, saying she would not support the creation of any new no-camping zones until she had received a written report analyzing the law’s effectiveness. Yaroslavsky promised to …

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1 year, 5 months ago

The monster shark of prehistoric Earth

BBC

Megalodon: the superpredator that ate its siblings in the womb Getty Images Megalodon is thought to have died out when shallower seas meant it could no longer hunt enough prey Extinct megalodon sharks were the top marine predators of their day and arguably more terrifying than anything Hollywood has dreamed up. "We really don't have a great handle on what …

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Teenager who was sacked after wearing trainers to work wins £30,000 payout for 'victimisation'

She went to prison in Varsity Blues admissions scandal. Now she says she was a scapegoat

Pearl Young became the first woman to work in a technical role at NASA

Former NSW Police officers say racist culture leading to higher Indigenous incarceration rates

The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown

What a mollusc shell and fiber optic cables have in common

Election 2024: A Nebraska court victory for voting rights could just swing the whole election.

How Israel’s War in Gaza Ripped a Major Abortion Fund Apart

Be grateful for what you have. It may help you live longer

Problematics | To eat ice cream or not to...

An overlooked molecule could help solve the Venus water mystery

A detective's pursuit of justice

Woman dances to Khalasi in office, people have a lot to say about her colleagues’ reactions

Ketanji Brown Jackson was 'throwing shade' at her colleagues in Trump hearing: expert

Popular myths about sleep, debunked : Life Kit

As retailer REI’s troubles with employees continue, consumers back off

The 5 things kids ask when they're grieving

In a historic victory, Hakki Pikki, Iruliga tribes secure land ownership in Bannerghatta National Park

Indian-origin doctor helps catch ‘evil’ nurse Lucy Letby who killed seven babies in U.K.

Indian-origin UK doctor helped catch nurse who killed 7 newborns in a year

'If you want to call that a cover up, then that's a cover up': Doctor who raised the alarm over Lucy Letby accuses NHS trust of 'engineering narrative' to avoid police action - after TV doctor Dr Ravi

Trump’s Jan. 6 Recusal Play Has No Chance

As she pushes for new homeless housing, Yaroslavsky shifts gears on no-camping zones

The monster shark of prehistoric Earth