Focus, curated by María Elena Ortiz, features solo and duo presentations exploring how the Caribbean has long served as a nexus for diverse communities and a foundation for contemporary artistic discourse.
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News Desk,
Artforum,
20 July 2026
Developers are exploring ways to run AI on classroom hardware or basic smartphones, allowing students and teachers to continue using these tools in rural schools, low-bandwidth environments, and the Global South.
This timeline refutes the notion that classifying obesity as a disease is driven by commercial interests by drugmakers.
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Torie Bosch,
STAT,
18 July 2026
In the most recent legislative session, Holscher introduced a bill to move marijuana from a Schedule I to Schedule III drug, classifying it among less addictive and harmful drugs.
Author and photographer Paul Koudounaris has spent more than a decade researching and photographing pet cemeteries and studying the connections between people and animals.
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Felicia Feaster,
USA Today,
17 July 2026
Now, the annual conference sessions team is researching and having conversations about what to do with next year’s conference, Day said.
But even as Moon landings, space shuttles, and reusable rockets seized the headlines, Link, along with a stubborn handful of engineers, explorers, and flat-out dreamers, kept plumbing the ocean instead.
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Bill Gourgey,
Popular Science,
2 July 2026
Online influencers can invent careers by plumbing the court docket in a celebrity lawsuit (see the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni case).
Those guidelines are much more attractive to taxpayers than those categorizing their income as gambling.
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Ananya Chetia,
CNBC,
18 July 2026
Currently, basic Medicare, the public health insurer of many adults over 65, does not cover grab bars, categorizing them like nonslip flooring or bathtub seats as convenience items rather than medical necessities.
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Panashe Matemba-Mutasa,
Mercury News,
13 July 2026
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