Michelle Browder’s Mothers of Gynecology monument in Montgomery Stephen Zucker via Flickr under CC BY-SA 2.0 For five years in the late 1840s, Anarcha, Betsey, Lucy and other unnamed enslaved women suffered at the hands of a white doctor who performed painful surgeries on the women without […]
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This spring marked the 18th Graves Business Plan Competition, in which six University of Tennessee, Knoxville, student start-up companies were awarded a total of $20,000 in funding. Hosted by UT’s Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the competition is designed to give undergraduate and graduate student entrepreneurs a real-world experience […]
A new report from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday revealed internal Facebook messages praising teams for seemingly hardball tactics taking down pages of the Australian government, including emergency services and charities. This all reportedly happened as the country was considering a new law that would require companies like Google […]
Some of the drag queens who performed at Hempfield High School last week are professionals who occasionally work for an Altoona-based entertainment company, the owner told LNP | LancasterOnline. The owner of that company said, however, that the company wasn’t involved in the event and that the dancers participated on […]
By David Gauthier-Villars, Steve Stecklow and John Shiffman (Reuters) – By his own account, Ilias Sabirov, a Moscow businessman, had supplied Russia’s military with high-performance computer chips made in the United States for years. Then, in 2014, Russia seized the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, and the U.S. government began imposing […]
This 1588 portrait of Elizabeth I shows the queen after English troops successfully staved off an invasion by the Spanish Armada. It will be on view as part of a Sotheby’s exhibition on British queens. Courtesy of Sotheby’s For centuries, British monarchs have used portraiture to present a carefully crafted […]
Allen Institute headquarters in Seattle. (Allen Institute Photo) The legacy of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen lives on at some of Seattle’s most innovative institutions. This week GeekWire profiled the AI2 incubator, a branch of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) launched by Allen in 2013. GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop […]
Archaeologists found a 5,300 year old skull, possibly from an elderly woman, that showed signs of early ear surgery. Scientific Reports Some 5,300 years ago, humans in what is now northern Spain cut into an elderly woman’s skull, likely in an effort to relieve her ear pain. Now, reports Judith […]
The patient was treated for HIV using stem cells from umbilical cord blood, a less invasive and risky method compared to bone marrow transplants. sukanya sitthikongsak via Getty Images A woman of mixed race is the third person in the world believed to be cured of HIV after receiving a […]
At the time of Thursday morning’s deadly wrong-way crash, Joscelyn Vith was driving home from work to Eighty Four, where she lived with her husband and two children. Vith’s vehicle was struck about 2:10 a.m. by a driver headed west in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 between the exits […]