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Unwind the Mind with Bad Blood, Featured book for May

On May 8, 2019 By Jennifer Schwartz

This fascinating story of the rise and fall of Theranos was recently made into a movie for HBO: The Inventor: Out For Blood in Silicon Valley. Theranos is the Silicon Valley start-up that set out to revolutionize medicine. Elizabeth Holmes, the brilliant, charismatic CEO, promised to reinvent the way patients

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Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Chicago 15 Peace Action

On May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 By Derek Potts

May 25, 2019, marks the 50th anniversary of the Chicago 15 peace action. On that weekend in 1969, fifteen peace activists from the Midwest, East Coast, and Canada entered the Selective Service Headquarters located at 2355 West 63rd Street, removing “50 sacks of files” and burning more than 40,000 draft