Best of: How private is your health tracking app data?
There are various health tracking apps that log your runs, and your calories burned, and even predict your next menstruation cycle. But how private is all that data?
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New film documents reparations efforts in Evanston
We talked with the co-directors of the Independent Lens documentary “The Big Payback: Fear and Reparations in the American Suburb."
Best of: What was it like to work with Dr. King?
Back in 1963, Don Rose was an organizer for Midwest states at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He’s made plenty of other marks in Chicago politics, but today we wanted to talk with him mostly about 1966, when Martin Luther King brought his civil rights work to Chicago, and Rose worked as his press secretary.
Illinois scientists set ambitious goals for battery development. How has the effort fared?
Battery techonology has changed in the years since a center for energy research opened in Illinois, so The 21st invited two of the researchers to update us on where the we stand in the efforts.
Where does Illinois stand with the “triple-demic”?
To get a sense of where Illinois stands with COVID-19, RSV, and the flu and to learn more about the new COVID variant, The 21st was joined by a public health medical advisor and professor of infectious diseases.