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Francescangeli says boys sometimes work long hours and are often tasked with pushing carts to move rocks out of the mines. "Being a child in these places is really hard," he says. "If they have some time to spend in a free way, they like to be children. But their life doesn't permit them to be children so often." Simone Francescangeli hide caption
Facebook has been using artificial intelligence to detect if a user might be about engage in self-harm. The same technology may soon be used in other scenarios. Dado Ruvic/Reuters hide caption
The home Jim Knaver shared with his wife, Toni, in Paradise, Calif., was completely leveled by the Camp Fire. Stephanie O'Neill for NPR hide caption
Jennie-O is recalling 45 tons of raw turkey that may be tainted by salmonella. Hormel Foods Corporation/AP hide caption
A tsetse fly photographed in the zoological institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Tsetse fly bites transmit the parasitic disease called sleeping sickness. Anton Fric/AP hide caption
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks with the media after a series of listening sessions about campus sexual violence in July 2017. Among the significant changes is that schools can make it harder to prove allegations. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Education Dept. Proposes Enhanced Protection For Students Accused Of Sexual Assault
Simone Giertz on the TED stage. Bret Hartman/TED hide caption
Simone Giertz: What Can Making Useless Robots Teach Us About Joy?
A total solar eclipse. David Baron hide caption
Ingrid Fetell Lee on the TED stage. Ryan Lash/TED hide caption
Ingrid Fetell Lee: How Can We Design More Joy Into Our Surroundings?
Becky Shaw's first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage in 2014. The following year, she and her husband, Ben, had Parker, their "rainbow baby," as babies born after pregnancy loss are often called. Ruby Eliason Photography hide caption
Health workers help an unconfirmed Ebola patient into her bed inside a treatment center in Democratic Republic of the Congo. John Wessels/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Research hasn't delivered a definitive answer on whether fish oil and Vitamin D supplements have health benefits, but it's clear that eating fish is beneficial. Enn Li Photography/Getty Images hide caption
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said he wants to ban menthol cigarettes because teenagers often become addicted to nicotine by smoking them. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
"Everything is private information, stored on your computer or a computer you designate," says George Church, genetics professor at Harvard Medical School, about the approach of Nebula Genomics. Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The New Yorker hide caption
A malnourished child receives medical treatment in Sanaa, Yemen. Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images hide caption
Clinicians and first responders who care for victims of gun violence can suffer what's called vicarious trauma. Image Source/Getty Images hide caption
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Songwriter Dan Johnson released an album earlier this year and a companion book that focuses on the mental health struggles of many veterans. He founded a non-profit called Project Hemingway dedicated to bringing down the veteran suicide rate. Doug Davis for NPR hide caption