Virtual Therapy vs. In-Person Therapy, How Redlining Deepened Segregation in US Cities, and Earth’s Drifting Magnetic Poles

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🗓️ 23 June 2020

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Learn about why you can blame redlining for US cities being so segregated; why Earth’s magnetic north pole is drifting every year; and how virtual therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy.

Redlining is the totally legal reason why US cities are so segregated by Steffie Drucker

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The Root. (2020). How Redlining Shaped Black America As We Know It | Unpack That [YouTube Video]. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-yD0wGxAc
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Mitchell, B. (2018, March 20). HOLC “redlining” maps: The persistent structure of segregation and economic inequality » NCRC. NCRC. https://ncrc.org/holc/
Alix, L. (2019, December 16). Wells Fargo, Philadelphia reach settlement in redlining lawsuit. American Banker; American Banker. https://www.americanbanker.com/news/wells-fargo-philadelphia-reach-settlement-in-redlining-lawsuit
Perry, A. M., & Harshbarger, D. (2019, October 14). America’s formerly redlined neighborhoods have changed, and so must solutions to rectify them. Brookings; Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/research/americas-formerly-redlines-areas-changed-so-must-solutions/

Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting every year by Cameron Duke

Livermore, P. W., Finlay, C. C., & Bayliff, M. (2020). Recent north magnetic pole acceleration towards Siberia caused by flux lobe elongation. Nature Geoscience, 13(5), 387–391. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0570-9
McRae, M. (2020). Earth’s Magnetic North Is Moving From Canada to Russia, And We May Finally Know Why. ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/russia-is-stealing-magnetic-north-from-canada-and-this-could-be-what-s-behind-it
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Toomey, E. (2019, August 7). Earth’s Magnetic Field Could Take Longer to Flip Than Previously Thought. Smithsonian Magazine; Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/earths-magnetic-field-could-take-longer-flip-previously-thought-180972843/
What Will Happen When Earth’s North And South Pole Flip? (2018). [YouTube Video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Ggs7nUjxA

Virtual therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy by Andrea Michelson

Effects of internet CBT for health anxiety on par with face-to-face treatment. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/ki-eoi051220.php
Axelsson, E., Andersson, E., Ljótsson, B., Björkander, D., Hedman-Lagerlöf, M., & Hedman-Lagerlöf, E. (2020). Effect of Internet vs Face-to-Face Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Health Anxiety. JAMA Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.0940
What you need to know before choosing online therapy. (2015). American Psychological Association. APA.org. https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/online-therapy
Suzannah Weiss. (2018, June 7). How to Know if You’d Do Better With Online Therapy Versus In-Person. Vice; vice. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqp48/is-in-person-therapy-better-than-online-therapy

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.
0:06.2	I'm Cody Goff.
0:07.2	And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:08.2	Today you learn about why you can blame redlining for US cities being so segregated, why Earth's magnetic pole is drifting
0:14.7	every year, and how virtual therapy can be just as effective as in-person therapy.
0:19.3	What, it's satisfy some curiosity?
0:22.2	Segregation was outlawed in the United States more than 50 years ago.
0:27.0	Yet neighborhoods and cities across the country are still segregated by race.
0:32.0	That's not an accident. It's due to redlining, which is the
0:35.3	totally legal government-created policy of residential segregation in the
0:39.8	United States. Here's how it all started. It all goes back to the new deal. A program
0:45.3	started in 1933 that was meant to bring the United States out of the Great Depression
0:49.5	and into an era of prosperity. It's where we got Social Security and unemployment benefits and
0:54.9	federally insured bank deposits. It's also where we got the idea of the 30-year mortgage.
1:01.1	That came out of the National Housing Act of 1934, which aimed to make home ownership
1:06.2	more accessible by ensuring loans made by private banks.
1:10.3	That law created the Federal Housing Administration, which encouraged lenders to fund new construction,
1:15.6	and the Homeowners Loan Corporation, or H-O-L-C, which made mortgages affordable.
1:21.8	Of course, the government wasn't just giving away free money.
1:25.0	They wanted to make sure loans went to the people who would pay them back.
1:28.0	That's where the racist policy of redlining came in.
1:31.0	The H-O-L-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-C-Ooted maps reflecting the economic risk of different neighborhoods. The quote-unquote best areas were green. Blue was more white-collar yellow was working class, and red areas were what they called
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