CLIPS

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Personal essays​

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• Before I Embraced My Brownness, I Tried to Lighten My Skin

(New York Magazine's The Cut)​

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• Lifting Heavy Weights Is My Favorite Way to Help Manage My Anxiety (SELF)

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• To All the Boys I've Loved Before is the Movie I Needed at 16 (InStyle)

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• Tachinomiya — Japan's standing bars — speak to our desire to drink alone, together (Mic)

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• Pumpkin Spice Spam is a thing, and I am here for it (Mic)

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Profiles

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• Aileen Suzara Is Flipping the Script About 'Unhealthy' Filipino Food (Bon Appetit's Healthyish)

• The Modern Master of Sex (OZY,  also featured on Yahoo! News)

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• The Doctor Who Delivered the World's First Three-Person Baby (OZY)​

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• This Teen Playwright Could Eradicate Hunger (OZY)​

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Features 

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• The Female Pastors Making Space for Queer Christians to Express Their Faith (VICE Magazine's Borders Issue, print)

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• Air Pollution Causes Epigenetic Changes That May Trigger Asthma (Discover, print)

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• Sad culture normalizes mental illness. But does it also glamorize it? (Mic)

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• Eating healthy doesn't need to mean white-washing your diet (Mic)

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• All hail the gender non-binary fragrance (Mic)

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• Vaginal health products are everywhere again, but are they even necessary? (Mic)

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• A Psychiatrist Told Us Why Her Patient Killed Her Children (VICE's Tonic)​

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• Can synthetic horns and tusks offer hope against poaching? 

(​Chemical & Engineering News)

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• Young blood may hold the weapons for targeting age-related diseases (Chemical & Engineering News)

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• Young Farmers are Cashing in on Hemp to Live Happier (VICE's Tonic)

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• When You've Transitioned But Your Voice Hasn't Caught Up (VICE's Tonic)

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• Relaxers Aren't the Only Hair Products With Questionable Chemicals Marketed to Black Women (VICE's Tonic)

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• Discrimination Against Your Partner Affects You, Too (VICE's Tonic)

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• The Test We Use to Detect Depression is Designed for White People (VICE's Tonic)

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• How Fear of Deportation Affects the Body (VICE's Tonic)​

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• It  Sucks to Be Undocumented When You're An Average Student

(VICE News)

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• Why Do People Drastically Change Their Skin Color? (VICE's Tonic)

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• Meet the Activists Coaxing Asians to Smoke More Weed (Splinter​)

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• The Art of Making (And, Of Course, Drinking) Ancient Booze (OZY)

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• How Do You Build A Genius? (OZY)

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Interviews

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• "Nap Bishop" Tricia Hersey is Spreading the Gospel of Rest (Bon Appetit's Healthyish)

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• Nathalie Huerta on Founding The Queer Gym and What Ayahuasca Taught Her (Bon Appetit's Healthyish)

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• Obama Gave These Kids DACA. Here's How They Plan to Survive. (Splinter)

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• "You have to come out of the closet twice": What it's like to be queer and undocumented (Splinter​)

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• CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna shares her outlook for the groundbreaking gene-editing tool (Chemical & Engineering News)

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• Bioengineer brings paper centrifuge and other cheap diagnostics to the developing world (Chemical & Engineering News)

Service pieces

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• Here's Why Slow Walkers Make Some People So Mad

(Men's Health)

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• What Are The Risks and Side Effects of Intermittent Fasting?

(Men's Health)

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• I tried mindful drinking, a more intuitive way to imbibe (Mic)

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• What is financial therapy? The link between money and your mental health (Mic)

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• Should I try microdosing at work? The science behind the Silicon Valley brain hack (Mic)

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• What is moringa, and should I be incorporating it into my diet? (Mic)

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• Can you change your attachment style? (Mic)

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• We Asked Experts if CBD-Spiked Foods Do Anything at All (VICE's Tonic)​​

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• What to Do When Your Roommate Comes Home Too Drunk (VICE's Tonic)

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• Is Cheap Makeup Bad for Your Skin? (VICE's Tonic)

News​

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• Air pollution is deadly for Americans, particularly for communities of color (Mic)

• Could red flag laws prevent mass shootings — and gun violence in general? Experts weigh in (Mic)

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• Protein-rich microalgae can grow at the high CO2 levels in industrial exhaust (Chemical & Engineering News) 

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• Cops Are Nearly 3 Times More Likely to Kill Black Americans Than White Americans (VICE's Tonic)​

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• Dolphins use signature whistles to call each other by 'name' (Los Angeles Times, print)

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• Fossils suggest T. rex was, indeed, king of the food chain (Los Angeles Times, print)

• Agriculture arose in many parts of the Fertile Crescent at once (Los Angeles Times, print)

• Gene sequencing of cholera bacterium from Haiti points to U.N. source (Los Angeles Times, print)

Press releases 

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• Advanced imaging technology reveals pulsed hormone release regulates gene transcription (National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research)

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• Arresting Metastasis (National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research)

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• Training the Immune System to Remember HIV (National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research)

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• Moxe for Leukemia (National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research)

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• Center for Cancer Research plays key role in first FDA-approved drug for treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma (National Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research)

Event coverage

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• DeepFake News-“AI-Synthesized Content”- Latest Challenge for News Content Pipeline and Providers (AI Trends)

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• Robots Need to Get Emotional to be More Trusted, say Expert Panelists (AI Trends)

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• Sarah Gray And Arupa Ganguly On Remembering The Human Lives Behind Biospecimen Donations (Bio-IT World)

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• Evolving Challenges And Directions In Data Commons: Updates From Bio-IT World West (Bio-IT World)​

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