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Erin Schrode is 24 years old, the age Hannah Horvath is in the pilot of Girls, in which another character says, "You could not pay me to be 24 again." But unlike Hannah, Schrode already has a job she's extremely passionate about—she's the co-founder of Turning Green, a nonprofit dedicated to environmen-tal advocacy—and now she is aiming for another. She's running for Con-gress in California's District 2,

in her hometown of Marin County. If she wins, she'll be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, and the first woman under 30. "There are two other candidates, and both are…middle-aged men. Can I say that?" she asked, laughing, in an inter-view with MarieClaire.com the day af-ter she announced her campaign. The seat she's hoping to fill is currently held by Jared Huffman, who is, unsurpris-ingly, a 52-year-old white male.

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Young single women are suddenly among the most talked-about voters in America.

Machi TanakaWe still have a time until the 2016 pres-idential election, but some celebrities already made clear who their favorite candidates are. The most popular candidate is Hillary Clinton. In the 2008 Democratic pri-maries, Hollywood was strongly divid-ed between Hillary and Obama. Katy Perry and George Clooney are behind Hillary now, but they endorsed Obama in 2008. She got a support from celeb-rities who are popular with a younger generation. Kendall Jenner took to In-stagram to declare Hillary's support of the Democratic nominee while wearing a t-shirt with Hillary's face on it. Be-yonce has donated and publicly showed support. Bernie Sanders gets a second posi-tion for Hollywood celebrities. Such as Rosario Dawson, Susan Sarandon,

Sarah and the Red Hot Chili Peppers shows their loves to Sanders. CBS poll revealed 78 percent of people expect-ed celebrity endorsements to have no effect on the outcome of the election. However, recent history tells the en-dorsement of Oprah Winfrey who pub-licly supported Obama in 2008 was es-timated to have generated more than 1

million votes for Obama, according to a 2013 study. In contrast with Hillary and Ber-nie Sanders, Donald Trump has some high-profile support but from celebri-ties with shady reputations. Although Hollywood pay big money to make something happen, but nobody knows who cares what Hollywood thinks.

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Kendall Jenner are backing Hillary, but Miley Cyrus is ready for Bernie because he "has been a bada in supporting the LGBT community," she said in her Instagram post.

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Planned Parenthood

Yes! Yes! No! No!

Opposes govern-mentmandated paid maternity leave.

Support for working families

Abortion

Should be a lastresort, but still legaland accessible.

Should always besafe and legal.

Should be bannedexcept in cases ofrape, incest, andwhen the life of themother is endangered.

Believes having alow minimum wage“is not a bad thing”for the country.

Calls for 12 weeksof paid family andmedical leave.

Supports paid leaveand affordablechildcare.

Birth Control

Should be afford-able and covered by insurance.

Should be afford-able; corporations should not be grant-ed religious exemp-tions.

Will be hard to get,since he wants torepeal the ACA.

Should be banned on any taxpayer fund-ing of abortion and of so-called partial birth abortion

Should be avail-able, but churches shouldn't provide

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Pepe Luis Lopez, Francisco Palma, and Alberto Contreras. These guys are among the candidate's 7 million Twitter followers, and each tweeted in support of Trump after his victory in the Nevada caucuses earlier this year. The problem is, they aren't peo-ple. They're bots—spam accounts that post autonomously using programmed scripts. Trump's rhetoric has alienated much of the Latino electorate, a fast-growing voting community. And while it's un-clear who's behind the accounts of Pepe and his digital pals, their tweets suc-ceed in impersonating Latino voters at

a time when the real estate mogul needs them most. Bots tend to have few followers and disappear quickly, dropping propa-ganda bombs as they go. Or they just sit around and do nothing. According to the site TwitterAudit, one in four of Trump's followers is fake, and simi-lar ratios run through the accounts of the other presidential hopefuls. Even if most of these bots are inactive, they still exaggerate a candidate's popularity. The team of researches at the Univer-sity of Washington and the University of Oxford tracks bot activity in politics all over the world, and the result is dis-turbing. In past elections, politicians government agencies, and advocacy

groups have used bots to engage vot-ers and spread messages. The research-ers've caught bots disseminating lies, attacking people, and poisoning con-versations. Automated campaign communica-tions are a very real threat to our de-mocracy. We need more transparency about where bots are coming from, and we need it now, or bots could unduly influence the 2016 election.

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Many companies pull their business from some North Carolina due to anti-LGBT law.

DiversityInc becoming employers for LGBT

Public pressures change $20

The U.S. Treasury Department an-nounced Harriet Tubman, an aboli-tionist who helped slaves to freedom, will replace the former president and slaveholder. Washington Post reporter says women on 20s organization helped convince Treasury Department to make changes. The idea gained momentum over several years, in part thanks to the work of Women on 20s, an organization that called for putting a woman on the $20 bill by 2020, in time for the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote.

When you think about the role that big corporations play in American life, fighting for social justice is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Yet many corporations are doing pre-cisely that in the ongoing struggle over the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This year, legisla-tors in at least twenty-five states have proposed more than a hundred bills limiting LGBT rights, often under the guise protecting religious freedom; North Carolina, Georgia, and Missis-sippi have passed laws that, in various ways, make anti-LGBT discrimination legal. In an effort to roll back these laws, and prevent new ones from being en-acted, some of America's biggest com-panies are pushing a progressive agen-da in the conservative heartland. Last month, executives at more than eighty companies—including Apple, Pfizer, Microsoft, and Marriott—signed a public letter to the governor o North Carolina urging him to repeal the state's

new law. Lionsgate Studio is moving production of a new sitcom out of the state, Deutsche Bank canceled plans to create new jobs there, and PayPal has canceled plans for a global opera-tions center. In Mississippi, G.E., Pepsi, Dow, and others attacked the laws there as "bad for our employees and bad for business." Disney said that it would stop making movies in Georgia, which has become a major venue for film pro-duction, if the governor signed the bill. Something similar happened last year in Indiana, after the state passed a reli-gious-freedom law allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBT custom-ers and employees. At least a dozen business conventions relocated. A little corporate muscle flexing can work wonders, it turns out. Last month, Georgia's governor vetoed its reli-gious-freedom bill, implicitly acknowl-edging that the state could not afford to lose Disney's business, and South Dakota's governor, citing opposition from Citigroup and Wells Fargo, vetoed a law that would have required people

to use the bathroom that correspond-ed to their biological sex at birth. Last year, Indiana and Arkansas amended their religious-freedom bills after a cor-porate backlash (led, in Arkansas, by Wallmart). Today's fight is driven by national companies, and they're in the vanguard' there is no federal law pro-tecting LGBT people from discrimina-tion, but three-quarters of Fortune 500 firms have policies forbidding it.

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Music icon Prince has passed away at 57 on April 22. His powerful mu-sic has addressed police brutality, the actions of Wall Street, the inter-sections of race and class, and the devastating nature of war. Although he most recently commemorated Freddie Gray's death in Baltimore police custody, Prince's activism has spanned decades.

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Tall buildings made with engineered wood are cheaper to erect and safer in disasters.

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Prison clothes change mind

Science News QuizQuestion 1.A new study suggests that ritual hu-man sacrifice may have promoted what cultural phenomenon in the South Pacific? A. Rapid maritime migration B. Interisland warfare C. Social stratification

Question 2.For nearly 3 years, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have kept a heart from this creature alive inside a baboon’s body: A. A pig B. A monkey C. Abe Vigoda

Question 3.Why did female modern humans have trouble making babies with Neander-thal guys? A. Not enough territorial overlap B. Hybrids were systematically killed by members of both species C. Their immune systems weren’t compatible

Question 4.Astronomers announced they had dis-covered one of the biggest black holes ever found. What makes it so unique? A. It was found on the edge of the Milky Way B. It was found in a “backwater” galaxy C. Physicists actually understand it

Question 5.In more astronomy news, scientists recently identified the “fingerprints” on Earth of what heavenly body or bod-ies? A. Comet Shoemaker-Levy B. Supernovae C. Hot Jupiters

Question 6. Scientists last week said they have new evidence that shows where Hannibal and his army crossed the Alps. What is it? A. Trampled horse dung B. Fossilized elephant remains C. Traces of soil from the Iberian Peninsula

Answer: B A C B B A

Using wood building materials to cut into that concrete reliance would have an added benefit; Trees absorb carbon dioxide, removing it from the atmo-sphere, and while they can take in more while living, a cut tree retains a portion of that gas in its wood, meaning a build-ing made of wood is a repository of se-questered carbon. A living forest can obviously hold much more carbon di-oxide than dead planks of wood. How-ever, since CLT and other engineered wood products use lots of small pieces of lumber, the tree they are made from are young—generally 20 to 25 years, ac-cording to Kaiser—which means they haven't trapped as much CO2 as old-growth forest. Central location test can often include wood that is beetle-dam-aged or already dead.

The Utah Department of Corrections gave the female inmates brand-new uniforms the color of plum wine. The prison lifted its ban on cosmetics, and the inmates picked out lip colors, eye shadows and blushes. Maybe a lot of this sounds too gender normative for the 21st century, but it seemed to work: "Disciplinary problems plummeted. That's because, thanks to their new uni-forms, the women inmates no longer see themselves as prisoners but as peo-ple. The clothes they wear have altered how they perceive themselves and the world. The story is not about feminism, but about something psychological. The humiliation of wearing a uniform may permanently affect the self-esteem of inmates, making it harder for them to readjust to the outside world once their sentences are over.

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Virtual Reality becomes realty for drivers GIFs replace your words?

You text behind the wheel. You know it's stupid, but you can't stop. And it's killing people. In 2013, distracted driv-ing was a factor in 16 percent of U.S. car crashes, killing 3,154 people and injuring 424,000. Just look at the driver next to you on the highway or at a stop-light—at any given moment, the Feder-al Government say, 587,000 Americans are driving with a cell phone in their hand. The youngs are especially at risk;

One in 10 teen drivers involved in a fatal crash was distracted, and a quar-ter of teens send a text every time they drive. Of course, no one's ignoring the issue. Forty-six states have outlawed texting while driving. The government puts millions into advertisement cam-paigns, but nothing has worked. Dan Eisenhardt, general manager of Intel's head-worn devices group, says AR gog-gles could let you see messages without taking your eyes off the road. And we'd use voice-to-text to respond.

Dry electrodes soon proved of interest to the medical community. Because they didn't require gel, which tended to dry or melt after a few hours, they could stay applied indefinitely. Better yet, wit hout the gel, users simply had to make

sure the conductive part of the elec-trode was touching skin. These ad-vances in EEG technology stoked the ambitions of entrepreneurs like Tn Le, CEO of Emotiv Systems, which manu-factures EEG rigs meant for consumers. Emotiv's older, more complicated set-ups hout the gel, users simply had to make were aimed at a hardcore hobbyist niche market. With new technologies rendering EEG relatively easy to use, Le now hopes to build a Fitbit or Apple Watch for the mind. "Anxiety, depres-sion, schizophrenia, dementia, Alzhei-mer's, Parkinson's, autism..." Le ticks off a litany of neurological disorders, then continues: "Most of these condi-tions are developmental in nature. The markers probably exist decades before the symptoms manifest themselves. We need more early intervention and early monitoring.

Most GIFs today are video clips. Wire-less networks carry them easily. Smart-phone screens display them nicely. But most people didn't have ways to cre-ate GIFs, or search for just the right GIFs, or embed GIFs in a message. That's what has changed lately. Giphy, now the biggest GIF search engine, launched i2013. It works sort of like YouTube. Type in "angry" or "hockey", and relevant GIFs fill the screen. Click, and you get ways to embed it in a mes-sage, blog post or whatever. Giphy, with a $300 million valuation, just got $55 million in funding. The site serves up tens of billions of GIFs each month and is quickly rising toward being one of the most trafficked sites on the Web.

In a next phase, one Giphy investor tells, the service will be meshed with social media, so as you type each word you'll see a relevant GIF. The idea is that you could stitch together GIFs to convey your message using not actu-al letters in the alphabet at all. Other startups are jumping into GIF-giving. Riffsy last year raised $10 million to make a GIF keyboard you can down-load on your phone. That way, you can just type sentences of GIFs. "We think of ourselves as building this visual lan-guage, this lexicon," Riffsy CEO David McIntosh said at the time. Another startup, Daycap, stitches together pho-tos you took on your phone through-out the day and generates a GIF that you can send to your friends, if you have any who would actually like to know what you've done all day. Neuroelectrics tants to be "Fitbit" for the brain.

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THE INTERNET OF GARBAGE

This richly textured account argues that modernization would have led China's birth rate to fall in any case, with all the attendant economic ben-efits. Nearly forty years later, the pol-icy has had devastating social con-sequence. Mei Fong writes movingly bout the intersection of Chinese trag-edy with those of the people she en-counters during her travel.

This debut by a Nigerian novelist Furo Wariboko is modeled on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." The triumph of La-gos—the roadside bukas that serve hot stew on steel plates, the arduous chore-ography of the traffic, and the glittering shopping malls to which Furo/Frank gravitates, because all races mix there in a neutral atmosphere of globalized wealth.

Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunch box washed up on the shore of her beach home. Within it lies a diary that ex-presses the hopes and dreams of a young girl. She suspects it might have arrived on a drift of debris from the 2011 tsunami. With every turn of the page, she is sucked deeper into an en-chanting mystery.

You could say that The Internet Of Gar-bage is about cybercrime. More spe-cifically, it's about the way that online harassment and doxxing have come to be seen as acceptable practices, with no useful policies on sites like Twitter for combating it, and no real laws in place to protect the most vulnerable. But you could definitely say that Har-bard-trained lawyer and technology journalist Sara Jeong has quietly writ-en one of the most important books by and about the Internet age. Author Sarah Jeong is one of the only journalists who aims to focus on the effect of such abuse on marginal-ized people, including the experiences of racialized attacks on women of color.

Given how little is written about online abuse that isn't centered on white cis-gender women, there are only so many examples to draw from. But Jeong is at her best when arguing the importance of centralizing such communities, writ-ing that not only is the Internet a dif-ferent world for marginalized commu-nities. Most people who dismiss online abuse by saying "It's just the Internet" or suggesting that we shouldn't "feed the trolls" don't realize that the Internet has become real life whether we like it or not; We've seen how the Internet foot-print of mass murders like Elliot Rod-ger and recent Oregon shooter Chris Harper-Mercer are thick with posts on men's-rights message boards and 4chan, the very sites where so much abuse toward women originates. One of

the book's crucial points is that a one-size-fits-all approach to reform based on the most prominent media narra-tives of abuse will likely have unin-tended consequences for those on the margins, which is frustrating. "What is the point of educating police if the most vulnerable Internet users are the least likely to actually call the police?" With any luck, it will be a call to fi-nally take women's online lives—"real" lives —seriously.

It’s something to keepin mind, especially as media narratives ofthe ‘worst’ kinds of harassment rarely feature

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Doris is shy and reclusive, but at her mother’s funeral, which opens the film, she’s hard to miss. She’s the one dressed like a bag lady. Gaudily col-ored, wildly patterned mismatched skirts and shirts and sweaters and clashing tights. A Sara Palin-like wig secured by a raggy kerchief. Two pairs of cats-eye glasses.

Disney's new animated film is about a rabbit cop, eager and optimistic: Thumper with a badge. Judy Hopps, raised on a peaceful farm, comes to the city to fight crime,

undismayed by being the smallest mammal on the force. As in "The Lion King," the world presented by the movie is entirely human-free, al-though in this case, no friction ex-ists between predators and the lesser beasts. In Zootopia, everybody lives pretty much in harmony—a mushy conceit, yet the directors, Byron How-ard and Rich Moore, take care to sug-gest how vulnerable such peace can be. Only by a whisker is it preserved, thanks to Judy and her sidekick, a hus-tling fox, who have two days to crack a difficult case. There are no songs, but the beat of the movie barely dips, sus-tained by a steady profusion of gags.

It had to happen. Anything Marvel can do, DC Comics can do better, or, at any rate, no worse. That is the supposition behind the new Zack Snyder film, which is every bit as tranquil and as understated as earlier Snyder films. Whereas Iron Man and his fellow-Avengers are gathered in amity, however, the tone here is one of violent discord: Superman, forever striving to locate his lost personality

comes to blows, who buffs and pump himself for the occasion. The cause of their tiff is never entirely clear, but it is heightened by Lex Luthor.

The first English-language film by one of the hottest directors in Eu-rope, Yorgos Lanthimos, this wild-ly unpredictable satiric fable takes place in a parallel world with very strict laws: If an adult goes 45 days without a romantic partner, he or she is turned into an animal and sent to live in the woods. Colin Farrell plays a single man who needs to find a woman, Rachel Weisz is the one he connects to, and Léa Seydoux plays the leader of a dissident group of anti-love rebels. Funny, dark, and strange, it won a big prize at Cannes last year.

Zootopia

Batman v. Superman

Has anyone played more exhausting mothers than Susan Sarandon? She’s back at it in Lorene Scafaria’s warm, semiautobiographical comic drama, where she shines as a New Jersey widow who moves out to L.A., the better to micromanage the life of her single daughter (Rose Byrne. Which of them do you think will find a man first?

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