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Pocket Passiv Is a Tiny 366-Square-Foot Net-Zero Home in Australia

Pocket Passiv by Anderson Architecture is a net-zero tiny house in Australia showcasing innovative design and sustainability in a limited urban space.










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So-called ‘deaths of despair’ are rising in the UK. Labour must act on this silent epidemic

Rates of suicide, alcohol and drug fatalities (collectively known as “deaths of despair”) have increased by 9%, 45% and 81% respectively in England and Wales over the last decade. Given that mortality rates for most other causes are stable or decreasing, this increase is deeply concerning. In total, in 2022 these three causes accounted for […]

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Imagining a World Where Reproductive Justice is For Everyone

What would it take to build a world where every pregnant person in this country had the rights, resources, and respect they needed to decide what to do with their pregnancy, whether to continue it or not? That world that we want to build is what’s possible with this election and the organizing that must […]

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Feasibility, acceptability, and initial outcomes of a psychological adjustment and reintegration program for transitioned military veterans

Reintegration and adjustment to civilian life after military service is crucial for veterans’ mental and physical health. However, there is a lack of evidence-based interventions in Australia that specifically… Read the full article ›

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  • Open Access Journal Articles

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Inclusion of unexposed clusters improves the precision of fixed effects analysis of stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials with binary and count outcomes

The fixed effects model is a useful alternative to the mixed effects model for analyzing stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials (SW-CRTs). It controls for all time-invariant cluster-level confounders and has … Read the full article ›

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  • Open Access Journal Articles

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Systems Architect - Infrastructure, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

We are looking to add talented Infrastructure System Architects to our Systems Group. As an Infrastructure Architect at Arm you will participate in the investigation and development of System related technologies which meet the requirements of our Infrastructure market partners.

What will I be accountable for?

This challenging position, will offer you the opportunity to work on the latest technology in a collaborative environment to:

  • Participate in the definition of system architectures for Infrastructure markets from edge to hyperscale systems using Arm technology.
  • Define Arm IP component requirements to meet the specific application needs.
  • Define the partition of functionality between hardware and software.
  • Create and own the architecture specifications that define system topologies that incorporate Arm compute, security, boot strategies, IO interfacing requirements, and other system architecture related topics
  • Guide and align the development work taking place across multiple design teams. This includes steering the development of functional and performance models, reviewing the microarchitectural specifications and test plans and supporting the development of Software (firmware, middleware, operating systems).
  • Define performance metrics and goals and work with the performance analysis team to refine the results, including expected latency and bandwidth targets, Quality of Service (QoS), device IO, and next generation memory technologies.
  • Work with hardware and software engineering teams to refine power expectations under various workloads




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System Performance Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

About the role

Arm is looking for a remarkable system performance modeling and analysis architect to join the

Worldwide system IP Performance team. You will work closely with IP and systems teams across Arm to help define high-performance systems incorporating current and next generation Arm Processors, scalable coherent interconnects, and high-bandwidth memory controllers. This is an unusual opportunity to work through the brilliance of our Arm team members.

 What will you be accountable for? 

  • Modeling, analysis, and workload projections: You will identify new performance features and system performance bottlenecks using performance and RTL models starting from product definition phase through release.
  • You will generate and correlate projections and scaling factors for appropriate workloads for partners to help both external and internal customers identify optimal design points of a system. 
  • Partner engagement and mentorship: You will engage with internal and external partners through all stages of the product in establishing high confidence in Arm IP and system level performance. You will collaborate closely with other teams at Arm including mentoring and encouraging junior engineers to deliver performance collateral through analysis for evolving new usages and workloads.
  • System model configurations. You will build and maintain consistent system model configurations for use by our partners that deliver the best performance. 




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Senior Design Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Software Engineering

About the role

We are searching for a talented Software Engineer to join the Raven Random Test Generator team at the Arm Austin Design Center. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will help develop and deploy our core product, Raven – a powerful dynamic random test generator written in C++ that has been used extensively by CPU design teams throughout the Arm ecosystem for more than a decade. You will work in close collaboration with senior CPU verification engineers both inside and outside of Arm to define and develop new ways of achieving their verification goals.

The Raven team is part of Arm’s Architecture & Technology Group – the part of Arm that develops architectural specifications and technologies needed to support Arm’s partners in successful development of processors conforming to the architecture. In addition to our product for CPU verification groups, we also collaborate early and frequently with Arm’s architects to help ensure that new architectures can be verified effectively.

As a member of our team, your day-to-day work will consist primarily of design and development of our C++ tool and supporting customers and coworkers to solve verification problems. This work relies heavily upon a strong knowledge of computer architecture concepts and ability to read and understand new architectural specifications. If you are looking for a role that combines hardware and software skills in an environment where you can make a significant contribution and collaborate with a talented team that creates leading-edge verification technologies and methodologies, we’re looking forward to hearing from you!




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Senior CPU Performance Workloads Engineer, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

We have exciting opportunities in the CPU group, where you will be part of a highly motivated team that helps define new generations of mainstream processors.

You will have real responsibilities from day one, and you will get support and mentorship from specialists that will help you succeed and develop your career. Through teamwork, training, and dedication to personal development, we strive to help everyone mature into a specialist in the field.

You will work in a multi-site, multi-cultural environment and will have the opportunity to work on different projects.

What will you be accountable for?

  • You will contribute to the definition of the next generation of Arm’s IP products by enabling analysis of new applications and benchmarks, and by proposing new insights on methodologies that push the state of the art in workload analysis, characterization and capture.
  • Together with marketing, technical leads, and partners we will align on applications that will represent market requirements for future products.
  • You will propose, develop and maintain innovative ways of making relevant workloads suitable for sophisticated simulation and emulation platforms, targeting the latest architectural features.
You will help maintain and extend existing methodologies and tools, and develop new tools/infrastructure




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Lead GPU Architect, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

About the role

The Central Technology Team within Arm develops key technologies which will form the foundation of future products.
You will join a multinational, dynamic, collaborative and highly motivated Graphics team in Central Technology to help craft the direction of our world leading Mali™ Graphics products. The Mali™ Graphics Processor is the #1 shipping GPU.

You will need to have architecture and hardware/software development skills, in addition to being able to think creatively. In this role you can expect to be a technical lead where your ideas will make a difference and enable you to make your mark delivering industry leading GPU IP.

Your job responsibilities will be diverse and may include architecture, technology research, hands-on prototyping and experimental investigations, participating in key industry consortium's, engaging with product groups, working closely together with the engineering team, and taking part in partner and customer engagements.

Together with our world-leading architects you will:

  • Design and develop the Mali™ graphics architecture for the latest graphics APIs, providing new technologies for products in new and existing markets.
  • Perform high level performance modelling and analysis of graphics hardware features, applications, benchmarks and games.
  • Develop and improve tools for architectural exploration and performance analysis.
  • Understand and analyse system level architectural trade-offs (including hardware, memory systems and system s/w).
  • Collaborate with the Arm engineering team to see your ideas delivered into products.




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Intern, Research - Software Architecture, Interns/Students, Austin (TX), USA, Research

Arm is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology providing efficient, low-power chip intelligence making electronic innovations come to life.  Through our partners, our designs power everything from coffee machines to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Do you want to work on technology that enriches the lives of over 70% of the world’s population?   Our internship program is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute. 

About Arm and Arm Research 

Arm plays a key role in our increasingly connected world. Every year, more than 20 billion products featuring Arm technology are shipped.  Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, complex system technologies, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries. 

At Arm Research, we develop new technology that can grow into new business opportunities. We keep Arm up to speed with recent technological developments by pursuing blue-sky research programs, collaborating with academia, and integrating emerging technologies into the wider Arm ecosystem.  Our research activities cover a wide range of fields from mobile and personal computing to server, cloud, and HPC computing. Our work and our researchers span a diverse range from circuits to theoretical computer science. We all share a passion for learning and creating. 

About our software architecture research 

Our software architecture research focuses on distributed systems, edge computing, compute-in-memory, and computer-in-network among other subjects. We also research computational engineering and high-performance data analytics 

Through our work we try to address three main questions: How do we balance hardware diversity with the software ecosystem? How do we evolve Arm technology to be relevant at large-scale (scale-up as well as scale-out)? What is the necessary infrastructure for evaluating large scale systems (in the absence of hardware)? 

Our research is currently focussed on two threads. One is developing IoT Gateway Reference Design and Proof of concept deployments around various edge use cases (Cities, Agriculture, RuralTelco). The second one is exploring edge computing, networking, and data centre scale cluster solutions 

 




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Intern, Research - Security, Interns/Students, Austin (TX), USA, Research

Arm is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology providing efficient, low-power chip intelligence making electronic innovations come to life.  Through our partners, our designs power everything from coffee machines to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Do you want to work on technology that enriches the lives of over 70% of the world’s population?   Our internship program is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute.  

About Arm and Arm Research 

Arm plays a key role in our increasingly connected world. Every year, more than 20 billion products featuring Arm technology are shipped.  Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, complex system technologies, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries. 

At Arm Research, we develop new technology that can grow into new business opportunities. We keep Arm up to speed with recent technological developments by pursuing blue-sky research programs, collaborating with academia, and integrating emerging technologies into the wider Arm ecosystem.  Our research activities cover a wide range of fields from mobile and personal computing to server, cloud, and HPC computing. Our work and our researchers span a diverse range from circuits to theoretical computer science. We all share a passion for learning and creating. 

About our group and our work 

The Arm Research Security Group works to "develop technology worthy of the trust that we place in it." We are not a "red team" identifying and publishing vulnerabilities in systems or suggesting point-fixes, but rather we seek to develop techniques and tools that eliminate large classes of vulnerabilities outright. To do this, we have projects broadly focussed on three research areas: 

Security. How can we implement systems that remain secure even in the face of well-organised and extraordinarily imaginative adversaries? In this area we are looking at, for example, designing "responsive hardware" that can spot and react to early signs of security threats. We are also looking into how an emerging set of post-quantum ciphers can be efficiently implemented on power-constrained Arm microcontrollers.  

Correctness. Can hardware and software systems be designed so that they are correct by construction? And what does "correct" even mean? We are currently trying to establish provable security properties for future extensions of the Arm architecture, and we recently started a collaboration with academics who are applying mathematical techniques to spot Spectre-like bugs in hardware designs.  

Privacy. How can emerging technologies increase the privacy of computations and data? We are investigating how trusted hardware and remote attestation protocols can be used to implement efficient secure-multiparty computations. We are collaborating with academic partners around the design and implementation of hardware acceleration for homomorphic encryption. Other ongoing projects look at using the high assurance seL4 Operating System to ensure security and privacy on untrustworthy Edge devices.  

 




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Intern, Research - Machine Learning, Interns/Students, Austin (TX), USA, Research

Arm is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology providing efficient, low-power chip intelligence making electronic innovations come to life.  Through our partners, our designs power everything from coffee machines to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Do you want to work on technology that enriches the lives of over 70% of the world’s population?   Our internship program is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute. 

About Arm and Arm Research 

Arm plays a key role in our increasingly connected world. Every year, more than 10 billion products featuring Arm technology are shipped.  Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, neural net accelerators, complex system technologies, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries. 

At Arm Research, we develop new technology that can grow into new business opportunities. We keep Arm up to speed with recent technological developments by pursuing blue-sky research programs, collaborating with academia, and integrating emerging technologies into the wider Arm ecosystem.  Our research activities cover a wide range of fields from mobile and personal computing to server, cloud, and HPC computing. Our work and our researchers span a diverse range from circuits to theoretical computer science. We all share a passion for learning and creating.  

About our Machine Learning group and our work 

Arm’s Machine Learning Research Lab delivers underlying ML technology that enables current and emerging applications across the full ML landscape, from data centers to IoT. Our research provides the building blocks to deliver industry-leading hardware and software solutions to Arm’s partners.  

Our ML teams in Austin and Boston focus on algorithmic and hardware/software co-design to provide top model accuracy while optimizing for constrained environments. This includes defining the architecture and training of our own DNN and non-DNN custom machine learning models, optimizing and creating tools to improve existing state-of-the-art models, exploring techniques for compressing models, transforming data for efficient computation, and enabling new inference capabilities at the edge. Our deliverables include: models, algorithms for compression, library optimizations based on computational analysis, network architecture search (NAS) tools, benchmarking and performance analysis, and ideas for instruction set architecture (ISA) and accelerator architectures. 

We are looking for interns to work with us in key application areas like applied machine learning for semi-conductor design and verification, autonomous driving (ADAS), computer vision (CV), object detection and tracking, motion planning, and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). As a team we are very interested in researching and developing ML techniques that translate into real products and applications; our interns will help us determine which aspects of fundamental ML technology will be meaningful to next generation applications.  

It would be an advantage if you have experience or knowledge in any or some of the following areas:  

  • Foundational Machine Learning technology including algorithms, models, training, and optimisation 

  • Concepts like CNN, RNN, Self-supervised Learning, Federated Learning, Bayesian inference, etc. 

  • ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, GPflow, PyroScikit-learn, etc.) and strong programming skills  

  • CPU, GPU, and NN accelerator micro-architecture 

 




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Intern, Research - Hardware Architecture, Interns/Students, Austin (TX), USA, Research

Arm is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology providing efficient, low-power chip intelligence making electronic innovations come to life.  Through our partners, our designs power everything from coffee machines to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Do you want to work on technology that enriches the lives of over 70% of the world’s population?   Our internship program is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute. 

 

About Arm and Arm Research 

Arm plays a key role in our increasingly connected world. Every year, more than 10 billion products featuring Arm technology are shipped.  Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, complex system technologies, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries. 

At Arm Research, we develop new technology that can grow into new business opportunities. We keep Arm up to speed with recent technological developments by pursuing blue-sky research programs, collaborating with academia, and integrating emerging technologies into the wider Arm ecosystem.  Our research activities cover a wide range of fields from mobile and personal computing to server, cloud, and HPC computing. Our work and our researchers span a diverse range from circuits to theoretical computer science. We all share a passion for learning and creating.  

 

About our hardware architecture research 

We are seeking highly motivated interns to join the Arm Research group to work on a variety of cutting-edge research for spring, summer, or fall-term placements. This is an opportunity to work alongside friendly and welcoming researchers defining the next stages of the Arm architecture and systems, and meaningfully contribute to ideas that will be at the heart of an ecosystem of more than one thousand partners that ship over 20 billion leading-edge Arm-powered processors each year. 

 

Our architecture and systems research activities cover a wide range of disciplines including mobile and personal computing and applications; server, cloud, and HPC computing; emerging memory technologies; interconnects; throughput and vector computing; exploiting parallelism with vector, SIMD, throughput, and multicore architecture.  We are looking for interns that are passionate about dreaming up innovations with the potential to change the future of compute. 

 




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Intern, Research - Devices, Circuits, and Systems, Interns/Students, Austin (TX), USA, Research

rm is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology providing efficient, low-power chip intelligence making electronic innovations come to life.  Through our partners, our designs power everything from coffee machines to the fastest supercomputer in the world. Do you want to work on technology that enriches the lives of over 70% of the world’s population?   Our internship program is now open for applications! We want to hear from curious and enthusiastic candidates interested in working with us on the future generations of compute.  

About Arm and Arm Research 

Arm plays a key role in our increasingly connected world. Every year, more than 20 billion products featuring Arm technology are shipped.  Our engineers design and develop CPUs, graphics processors, complex system technologies, supporting software development tools, and physical libraries. 

At Arm Research, we develop new technology that can grow into new business opportunities. We keep Arm up to speed with recent technological developments by pursuing blue-sky research programs, collaborating with academia, and integrating emerging technologies into the wider Arm ecosystem.  Our research activities cover a wide range of fields from mobile and personal computing to server, cloud, and HPC computing. Our work and our researchers span a diverse range from circuits to theoretical computer science. We all share a passion for learning and creating. 

About the devices, circuits and systems group and our work 

We are looking for interns to join our Devices, Circuits and Systems Research team; we want to hear from candidates interested in delivering post-Moore scaling and pushing compute past the limits of power, cost, and performance. Our research activities cover a wide range of chip design challenges such as: 

  • Delivering power to multi-GHz processors 

  • Crafting performant and energy-efficient systems with emerging post-Moore memory and switching devices 

  • 3D stacking 

  • Designing microwatt sub-threshold microcontrollers 

  • Realising 1 cent disposable printed electronics 

  • Prototyping battery-less sensor nodes  




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CPU Performance –Sr Principal Modeling Architect, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

About this role

If you are a technical lead with engineering expertise in CPU microarchitecture, performance-model development, performance analysis, or workload analysis, we would like to talk with you about joining Arm’s highly successful CPU performance architecture team based in Austin.  Our team plays a major role in crafting our next-generation Cortex-A class CPU designs and in enabling Arm partners to use our designs in world-class products. As a senior member of this expert team, you will own substantial and challenging performance projects

What types of projects will you accomplish?
  • Collaborate with other members of the design team - primarily in Austin - to help design our next-generation CPU microarchitecture
  • Lend your expertise across all Performance sub-disciplines: microarchitecture and performance model development, microarchitectural performance analysis, RTL/performance-model correlation, workload analysis, and workload development
  • Engage with key partners at an engineering level to understand their future performance requirements, performance sensitivities, and workload expectations
  • Help develop the team and be a mentor to engineers
  • Interact with customers and other third parties to successfully communicate complex technical ideas, and participate in internal and customer meetings




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CPU Performance Architect, Experienced Professionals, Austin (TX), USA, Hardware Engineering

Arm is the industry's leading supplier of microprocessor technology, offering the widest range of microprocessor cores to address the performance, power and cost requirements for almost all application markets. Combining a vibrant ecosystem with more than 1,000 partners delivering silicon, development tools and software, and over 90 billion processors shipped, our technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate.

In the role you are a part of the Austin-based CPU performance architecture team, which is part of Arm's worldwide CPU development group. This diverse engineering-centric team defines, designs, and validates Arm processor IP. Arm-based processors are the brains in billions of diverse electronic devices and we collaborate with the world's leading technology companies.

As an authority —think Senior/Staff/Principal type engineer-- on our team of about a dozen senior engineers, you tackle next-generation Arm Cortex-A class CPU microarchitecture design and performance analysis. You will be a part of a growing organization with a validated business model and a strong plan for continued future growth. Your team focuses on engineering using the latest tools and methodologies with an eye for innovation and creative problem solving.








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“I Don’t Just Take Whatever They Hand to Me”: How Women Recently Released from Incarceration Access Internet Health Information

Volume 34, Issue 5, September-October 2024, Page 306-322. Read the full article ›

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Examining the reciprocal associations between symptoms of depression and anxiety and contact with the criminal justice system

Abstract Background Taken together, prior publications on the association between symptoms of depression and anxiety and contact with the criminal justice system (CJS) suggest a bi-directional relationship, but all the studies only focus on one direction in this relationship. Aims To examine, in longitudinally collected data, period-specific within-individual change in anxiety and depression measures preceding […]

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Maison Perron Expands Beyond Just a Vibrant Office Space in Quebec

Maison Perron redefines the studio's ethos by transforming a historic Quebec building into a vibrant space that celebrates Perron’s blend of artistry and functionality.





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The Cosentino x Modular Tables by Justine Kegels Are Solid Design

A table collection from Cosentino and Modular, designed by Justine Kegels, celebrates the unique capabilities of modular lighting and stone.




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Acoustic Afternoon at Juniper Art Gallery w/ Pat Otto

Juniper Art Gallery
615 W. Kirkwood Ave
Bloomington, IN 47404
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 4:30 – 6pm

Juniper Art Gallery is thrilled to welcome back multi-instrumentalist, and singer/songwriter Pat Otto to our Janiece Jaffe Legacy Stage for November's 2nd Wednesday Acoustic Afternoon on Nov 13th from 4:30-6:00pm. Pat will play both covers and originals on guitar and mandolin. His shows are always entertaining and enjoyable, and we have food & beverage available through our cafe. Come out for a wonderful afternoon of music and art, and some new arrivals in the shop!

Presenter: Juniper Art Gallery
Contactart@juniperartgallery.com
Cost: free
More infojuniperartgallery.com…



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Illustrating Identity: Senior Cords in Monroe County Exhibit

202 E 6th Street
Ongoing through Saturday, December 28, 2024

Senior cords, decorated corduroy pants and skirts popular with high school and college seniors, are a unique piece of Hoosier heritage. This exciting exhibit guest-curated by Kelly Richardson (Director of IU Sage Collection) follows their history from their Purdue University origins through their high school heyday in the 50s and 60s and up to their contemporary revival in bespoke fashion brands like BODE.
Exhibit is currently open and closes Dec. 28th

On view at the Monroe County History Center
202 E. 6th St
Bloomington, IN 47408
Visit monroehistory.org for hours, pricing, and parking information.

Presenterwww.monroehistory.org
Contact: Sarah Rosenkrans
Age Range: All Ages
Cost: $2 adults, $1 kids, free for members and ages under 5
Communities: Bloomington
More infowww.monroehistory.org



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Playing 'Crazy Eyes' Taught Actress 'It's OK To Be Just You'

Uzo Aduba has won over critics and fans for her portrayal as "Crazy Eyes" on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black. Aduba speaks to NPR's Michel Martin about her success and how she got there.




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The crypto industry won big this election. It has several implications

The crypto industry was the largest corporate donor to this year's elections. Now it has a crypto-friendly president headed to the White House, while critics worry about the fallout for consumers.




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Basic Black: Justice, Reparations, and Reconciliation


February 8, 2013:

The Scottsboro Boys
, The Central Park Five, Shawn Drumgold…in all of these cases, the accused were found guilty, only to be exonerated years later, sometimes decades later. This week on Basic Black, a conversation on searching for truth, justice delayed, and a judicial balm for wounded communities.


Our panel this week:
- Callie Crossley, host and moderator, Boston Public Radio, WGBH
- Kim McLarin, assistant professor of writing, literature and publishing, Emerson College
- Phillip Martin, senior reporter, 89.7 WGBH Radio
- Peniel Joseph, professor of history, Tufts University





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Philip Roth, Towering Novelist Who Explored Lust, Jewish Life and America, Dies at 85

Obituary recounts life and career of alumnus and preeminent novelist Philip Roth




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Something Wild: Boom & Bust Cycles

This episode of Something Wild was produced by Andrew Parrella: The number of acorns a tree produces in a given year has to do with masting. Not mast like on tall ships, but mast as in masticate, or to chew and it refers to the fruit, seeds or nuts that trees produce and are in turn fodder for animals. Especially in New Hampshire, oak mast follows a boom or bust cycle, which means the amount of acorns varies from year to year. Over time, evolution has favored the oak trees that demonstrate this boom or bust cycle. This keeps seed consumers off balance and that's actually a good thing. If there were the same amount of acorns every year, there would be just enough mice and turkey and deer and others to consume every single acorn. However, by producing very few acorns a couple of years running, they starve the animals and the populations of seed predators crash. Then, the oak has a boom year and there aren't enough animals to eat them all, which allows some of those acorn to become trees.




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Politics Friday: Should we stop trusting pre-election polling?

Is there really such a thing as a "shy Trump voter"? Who is contacted to take part in pre-election polls? And are they reliable or not?




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Sustainable fuels plant to be built in Moorhead and operational by 2030

A Washington D.C. based company announced it will build a $5 billion sustainable fuels production facility in Moorhead. The plant is expected to create 650 jobs and be operational by 2030.




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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby resigning amid outrage over child abuse cover up scandal in CofE

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the Church of England and the global Anglican Communion, has announced that he will be resigning amid outrage over an abuse cover-up scandal.




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Christians must be 'major influencers' in American politics, say activists on opposite sides

Two Christian activists urged fellow believers to remain active in politics, contending that they have an obligation to become “major influencers” in American society by restoring civility to political discourse. 




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Weekly N.H. News Roundup: August 23, 2019

We focus on environmental news on this edition of the Weekly New Hampshire News Roundup. We talk about climate issues on the 2020 campaign trail after the departure of Jay Inslee, and compare the climate plans offered by other Democratic candidates. Following protests at the statehouse over the Merrimack Station coal plant, we discuss the future of fossil fuel generators in the state. Plus, the latest environmental vetoes and bill signings from Governor Chris Sununu. Annie Ropeik, NHPR's environment and energy reporter, is guest host. GUESTS: Sam Evans-Brown - host of NHPR's, Outside/In, our show about the natural world and how we use it. We discuss the 2020 candidates and their climate plans with Leah Stokes , Assistant Professor of Climate Politics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lila Kohrman-Glaser , co-director of 350 NH Action, joins us to talk about protesting the 440-megawatt Merrimack Station at the statehouse. Bay Road in Newmarket is currently closed for




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Twin brother of murdered Texas pastor wants suspect jailed as he laments pace of justice

The Rev. Roland Mouton, the twin brother of the late East Bethel Missionary Baptist Church pastor the Rev. Ronald K. Mouton, who was fatally shot in the chest in June 2022 after a 10-second argument with an Uber driver in Houston, is calling for the suspect in his brother’s killing to be jailed for violating the terms of his bond as his laments the slow pace of justice for his family. 




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'Justice for Peanut': 5 reactions to killing of celebrity squirrel seized by New York authorities

Peanut the squirrel’s seizure and euthanization by New York officials has sparked blowback from President Donald Trump’s running mate and various public figures, with the deceased pet now serving as the inspiration for a new law intended to improve animal rights. 




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The Show Might Go On, The Show Won’t Go On, The Show Must Go On: The State of Theater in N.H.

In a normal year, theaters around the state would be preparing for their summer seasons. With gatherings currently forbidden and uncertainty hanging over their heads, many are simply canceling the whole season. Others are postponing or, as NHPR’s Sean Hurley found out, discovering new ways to reach an audience. Sign up for NHPR's email newsletter for more coverage of coronavirus in N.H.




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Travel: In the middle of nowhere on Lake Superior, a city defined by industry

“Nobody really comes here,” the waiter at my hotel said. “People only stop when they’re driving through.” I heard that a lot during my recent three-night visit to Thunder Bay on the north shore of Lake Superior in Ontario, Canada.




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GAFCON demands Justin Welby publicly repent for speaking against ‘doctrine of Christ’

The group GAFCON has demanded that Archbishop Justin Welby publicly repent for comments that contradict the “doctrine of Christ.”