Some things to know about #abortion in the United States:

50 state supreme courts now get to interpret their own state laws under state constitutions and look there for privacy rights theconversation.com/state-courts-f… There is no one religious view on abortion theconversation.com/americas-relig…

Urban economics researchers at @USC built a post-pandemic artificial world of Los Angeles (think SimCity) where a third of people worked remotely permanently and found 3 important long-term effects: Residents would increasingly move from city neighborhoods to the suburbs, while companies would gravitate to the center.

As #BlackHistoryMonth ends, we can thank Carter G. Woodson who initiated the idea, and to whom – Langston Hughes wrote – America owes a debt of gratitude: “For many years now he has labored in the cause of Negro history, and his labors have begun to bear a most glorious fruit.” Here are just some of our favorite picks that brought us to a deeper understanding of #Blackhistory:

We asked 4 scholars of policing, law, race and Minnesota history to explain the landmark guilty verdicts handed down in #GeorgeFloydTrial (thread)

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theconversation.com/why-this-trial… .@AlexisKarteron reminds us that we need to talk about race and policing even though race went unmentioned during the trial

On this #internationalwomensday2021, we’re sharing some of our favorite stories celebrating grand achievements of women all around the world, as well as expert analysis on the ways the world can still improve to set women up for success

⬇️ (thread) ⬇️ #InternationalWomensDay It feels like a special #internationalwomensday2021 for the United States now that the country has its first woman vice president.

Harris stands on the shoulders of many African American women who ran for president despite enormous political barriers

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How to make meeting rooms and classrooms safer, to reduce the risk of transmission of #coronavirus. Some important information on ventilation from engineering professor @ShellyMBoulder via @CUBoulder (1/6):

theconversation.com/how-to-use-ven… A CO2 monitor (around $100 online) can help give a clue to if there is enough ventilation. CO2 levels outdoors are just above 400 ppm. A well ventilated room will have around 800 ppm. Any higher than that is a sign the room needs more ventilation (2/6)

1/ Recently, as videos of Ahmaud Arbery’s and George Floyd’s deaths spread over the internet, Prof. Allissa Richardson (@DrAlliRich) of @USCAnnenberg wrote for @ConversationUS that sharing images of Black people being killed can be disrespectful and traumatizing 2/ Four days later, an editor @axios wrote about the same subject, citing no scholarly research. @DrAlliRich has written a book about this issue, published this year by Oxford University Press, and spoken widely about the subject in recent weeks