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As employers expand artificial intelligence in hiring, few states have rules

2 years 5 months ago

As artificial intelligence finds its way into aspects of everyday life and becomes increasingly advanced, some state legislators feel a new urgency to create regulations for its use in the hiring process. Artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI, has been adopted by a quarter of businesses in the United States, according to the 2022 IBM […]

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Madyson Fitzgerald

St. Louis County Police Officer Arrested for Beating Handcuffed Man

2 years 5 months ago
A former police officer for the city of Northwoods, Missouri, was arrested this morning in North Carolina after allegedly beating a handcuffed man in Kinloch on the Fourth of July. Samuel Davis, 26, allegedly took a man into custody at a Walgreens in Northwoods, a small north county municipality about a mile outside St. Louis city limits, and drove the man to a "remote location" in nearby Kinloch. The man was handcuffed and Davis allegedly deactivated his body cam, according to a probable cause statement.
Ryan Krull

City Museum's New 'Bop Bear' Is Straight Out of Burning Man

2 years 5 months ago
If you have fond memories of trying to knock down a Bop Bag as a child — maybe a clown, maybe a dolphin? — you're going to love the interactive art piece just installed on the roof of City Museum. It's a 14-foot, 200-plus-pound Bop Bear.
Sarah Fenske

Mosquito Alert STL: Community Science Bug-Off Power

2 years 5 months ago

St. Louis is the first U.S. city using the app Mosquito Alert,  developed in Barcelona, Spain, and in use across Europe. This Citizen Science project combines support for our Public Health pros with rich opportunities for eco-logical messaging:
We CAN Control the Pests AND Protect our Pollinators!

     

The Mosquito Alert STL project team is promoting use of this smartphone app around our community - and taking the work an important academic step further: researching the power of Citizen Science to boost the capacity of our Public Health agencies, as they work to track and control the kinds of mosquitos that carry serious diseases like West Nile and Zika virus.    

MASTL team members Jeanine Arrighi (St. Louis Academic Health), Alexis Bingham (SLU Masters candidate and MASTL student partner), and Dr. Ricardo Wray (Saint Louis University School of Health Communications and Social Justice) talk with Earthworms host (and fellow MASTL team partner) Jean Ponzi about this exciting, locally evolving work. 

Find Mosquito Alert STL resources online and read more about this project.  Download the Mosquito Alert app and join the SWAT Team! 

Learn more about the global value of Citizen Science in dealing with mosquito-born disease from the Wilson Center for Science (and in Earthworms' archived edition).

Thanks to Andy Heaslet, Earthworms audio engineer, and to KDHX Production Pro Jon Valley.

Related Earthworms Conversations:

One Health: People, Animals, Earth with Dr. Sharon Deem

Global Mosquito Alert with Dr. Anne Bowser, Wilson Center for Science (August 2019)

Fight The Bite with the 4-Ds - Mosquito Squad, City of St. Louis (July, 2016) (where we WERE with mosquito education before Mosquito Alert STL)