Sep 11 #Iwastheonly girl in my school who wore a headscarf .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } NPR's CodeSwitch, a blog that… Continue reading
Sep 11 How do you decide who to trust to deliver your news? This week's #NewsHourChats is about the changing news industry. What do these changes say about the future of journalism? What do you look for in news coverage? How do you decide who to trust? Weigh in on those and… Continue reading
Sep 11 Alternative college ratings rank bang-for-buck education Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. In response to U.S. News and World Report's famous college ranking, Washington Monthly puts out its own College Guide and Rankings issue that measures factors such as the graduation rate of low-income… Continue reading
Sep 11 A look at the man behind the college rankings The release of U.S. News and World Report's 2014 college rankings Tuesday unleashed the usual obsessing. The Chronicle of Higher Education cleanly summarizes some of the methodological changes in this year's rankings, which included decreasing the weight… Continue reading
Sep 11 #Remembering 9/11: The homepage of The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001 Twitter: Before everything changed, this was the @nytimes homepage we woke up to on morning of 9/11. http://t.co/YFeofRiUDs pic.twitter.com/oUgIZGMTe0— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) September 11, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 11 America's underground adopted children trade Photo by Ben Nguyen/Flick Many parents spend years waiting to adopt a child, but some decide to give up their newest family members days after receiving them. An investigative report released Monday exposes the vast underground network of… Continue reading
Sep 11 1,140 cancer cases tied to 9/11 'just the tip of the iceberg' Photo by Gary Friedman/AFP/Getty Images As the world marks the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a study from Mount Sinai Medical Center has found a 15 percent higher cancer rate among first responders than those not… Continue reading
Sep 11 NASA remembers Sept. 11 .embed-container {position: relative; padding-bottom: 120%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden;} .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } NASA posted this Instagram photo Wednesday morning, showing smoke billowing… Continue reading
Sep 11 De Blasio may still face runoff Photo by William Alatriste AP reports that it may take weeks before Public Advocate Bill de Blasio -- who finished first in the New York mayoral primary -- becomes the Democratic party's nominee. De Blasio had 40.2 percent… Continue reading
Sep 11 Purple sweet potatoes may replace bugs for food coloring Photo by avlxyz /Flickr The spectacular colors in foods on grocery store shelves comes from synthetic dyes, but scientists are now trying to figure out how to extract color from food itself. Some of the more spectacular red colors… Continue reading