From The Futurist
What will the future of medicine look like? This virtual reality experience uses a mix of computer-generated imagery and live action laboratory footage from a working diagnostics lab to take the user on a 360-degree journey into the world of breakthrough medicine, going inside the body to explore how the technologies being researched today may transform the treatment of tomorrow.
By Shane Goldmacher of the New York Times
Senator Elizabeth Warren has come calling as recently as April. Kamala Harris, the first-term senator of California, has made repeated visits, starting as early as her third month in office.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is also no stranger to the big-money donor world of New York; he was here in April — his third such visit in three months. It will be months before Mr. Biden, Ms. Harris, Ms. Warren or most potential presidential aspirants will barnstorm across the farmlands of Iowa, dig into a low-country boil in South Carolina or field questions at a town-hall meeting in New Hampshire.
But with American presidential races requiring an ever-dizzying amount of money, an early, behind-the-scenes 2020 contest is already taking place: the New York money primary.
Or, Why Kim Kardashian Gets Ten Times the Attention of Kids in Cages in Camps
By Umair Haque in Eudaimonia
Unique in the world — perhaps unique in history — Americans appear perfectly content to watch their kids massacre each other in schools, to watch their neighbours die for a lack of basic medicines, to watch their middle class implode, to see their own life expectancy shrink, to work a little harder every day only to be rewarded with less money, stability, and opportunity by the very system of predatory capitalism that is ripping their lives apart.
By Kim Parker, Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Anna Brown, Richard Fry, D’Vera Cohn and Ruth Igielnik of Pew Research Center
Large demographic shifts are reshaping America. The country is growing in numbers, it’s becoming more racially and ethnically diverse and the population is aging. But according to a new analysis by Pew Research Center, these trends are playing out differently across community types.
Amid widening gaps in politics and demographics, Americans in urban, suburban and rural areas share many aspects of community life.
By Jon Chesto of the Boston Globe
For General Electric, it’s one more indignity in a run of bad news: The Boston-based digital industrial giant has been dropped from the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the world’s most widely followed stock index.
GE was an original member of this exclusive club, when the industrial average was started in 1896.
