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The Higher Ed Crisis Isn’t New — AI Made It Visible
When I grade a student homework, I used to ask whether they understood the material. Now I ask whether they wrote it. The honest answer is: it doesn’t matter. The system stopped being about learning long before generative AI arrived.
Beyond Hospitals: What Wastewater Can Tell Us About Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is not confined to hospitals. It flows through communities, wastewater, and the environment. Study shows how wastewater surveillance can uncover hidden resistance patterns and transform AMR monitoring into a proactive public health tool.
Advancing Health through Infectious Disease Screening
Chagas disease prevalence is falling in some areas, transmission routes are changing, and urbanization/global migration are spreading risk beyond rural Latin America. Hotspots persist (e.g., Gran Chaco), oral transmission is rising, and prevalence is hard to estimate due to sparse, outdated data.
Water Activation Efficiency (WAE): A Framework for Understanding Alignment in Global Food Systems
How water, energy and logistics interact to shape agricultural output, and why Africa’s water margin matters for global stability.
