Kay Granger, Like Joe Biden, Is a Symptom of America's Gerontocracy

Kay Granger, Like Joe Biden, Is a Symptom of America’s Gerontocracy

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Just as democracy means a system of government ruled by the dēmos, or the common people, gerontocracy refers to rule by the elderly. It was coined in the 19th century as a pejorative to describe the aged French parliament, but it can refer to any government whose leaders are of sufficiently advanced age. While being long in the tooth does not automatically indicate diminished mental faculties, it’s enough of a concern that many jobs—even those without the ability […]

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Friday Feature: Limestone Community School

Friday Feature: Limestone Community School

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Colleen Hroncich Second and third graders designing affordable housing that a family now lives in? That sounds too impressive to be true, but that’s what can happen when children are in the right educational environment, like Limestone Community School in Lawrence, Kansas, which opened in 2021. Madeline Herrera founded Limestone after years of frustration as a public school teacher. “I either have to stop teaching or open my own school,” she recalls telling her husband. “I really did […]

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Disrupting IVF? Baby Born From Egg Matured Outside of Mother's Body.

Disrupting IVF? Baby Born From Egg Matured Outside of Mother’s Body.

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A company called Gameto claims to have successfully matured eggs outside of the female body, a development that could revolutionize the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process. “We are thrilled to announce a medical milestone–the world’s first live birth using our product, Fertilo, that matures eggs outside the body,” the company posted on X last week. Gameto’s process involves extracting immature eggs from a woman’s body and then using “engineered, young ovarian support cells to recreate the natural egg […]

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