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There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic affirmed one of the greatest failures in the American healthcare system: too often your health is determined by your zip code.As providers, we are moving to a more holistic approach to care and maintaining health, strategies that have been turbocharged since the pandemic revealed terrible fault lines in outcomes based on race and ethnicity. African-Americans have been twice as likely to die as white Americans in the pandemic.Emerging resea

The sudden return of former Disney CEO Bob Iger to the top role at the company caught a lot of people off guard, none more so than Bob Chapek, who was reportedly blindsided by the move.

Financially, Chapek has nothing to worry about. He has a severance package that’s said to be worth more than $23 million, but when it comes to his Disney legacy, he has plenty to fear. While he was handpicked for the CEO role by Iger, the relationship between the two quickly cooled and eventua

Assuming Twitter can survive the whiplash of being yanked back and forth by new CEO Elon Musk—yet another round of layoffs roiled the sales team Monday morning—the social media platform is shaping up to face a new challenge: possible headbutting with Apple and Google. That is, if Musk’s laissez-faire approach to moderation ends up putting Twitter at odds with developer policies on the major app stores, Musk’s platforming of hateful content could get Twitt

There are certain motifs you can expect to find in one of Pat Finnerty’s YouTube videos: enthusiastic shout-outs to Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, for example; or the ever-expanding mobile of guitar pedals that hovers like a halo above his head; or his undying disdain for music producer and fellow platform personage Rick Beato.

Finnerty, 42, is the creator of What Makes This Song Stink?, a popular YouTube series that explains, well, why certain songs (mostly ones written after

When it comes to the metaverse, there is no shortage of opinions. On one side of the aisle, you have maximalists like Mark Zuckerberg, who sincerely believes we’ll eventually work and socialize within immersive 3D worlds, and is spending billions to make Meta the cornerstone of this new Internet.

Their counterparts are the metaverse bulls—people like Xbox chief Phil Spencer, who’s decried existing metaverse products as a “poorly-built video game.”

Each generation of Mars rovers offers unique technological quirks: Pathfinder introduced the cushioned landing with inflated airbags; Phoenix, the anthropomorphized rover Twitter account; Curiosity, the far-out sky crane descent.

But Opportunity stands out as the Energizer Bunny of the bunch in its capacity to keep going . . . and going. The rover journeyed to Mars for an early 2004 landing along with a twin explorer named Spirit for 90-day missions. While Spirit lasted just over 6

By now, most of us know that our meat comes from unsavory places. Globally, 90% of meat comes from large-scale factory farms that confine animals under cruel and environmentally destructive conditions. In the U.S., it’s a whopping 99%. Despite this harsh reality, Americans are eating more meat than ever before. In 2021, they consumed 224.9 pounds per person, and that number is projected to rise in 2022. It’s no wonder the U.S. meat industry is worth $172 billion, and is expected

Greenwashing is the clever disguise companies use to claim sustainability without actually doing anything, and the fashion industry is one of the worst offenders. PANGAIA’s Fashion scientist, Dr. Amanda Parkes, is on a mission to fix the industry’s problems with both unsustainable processes and the lack of information keeping

I don’t want to spoil the punchline of this article, but Amazon’s Kindle e-reader lineup runs from inexpensive to expensive. And with the introduction of the latest entry-level Kindle, the inexpensive end of the spectrum looks mighty enticing.

If you’re in the market for a new Kindle, here’s a look at your current options–including the differences between all the models and, perhaps more importantly, what they all have in common.

The lineup