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Heather McCracken

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Heather McCracken’s Biography

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Web editor, freelance feature-writer and reporter. Science, health, food, travel and the environment are special interests, but my work spans a broad and often surprising spectrum of topics - from craft beer to Ferraris.

Formerly filing editor at New Zealand news agency NZME, online editor at nzherald.co.nz, editor of daily newspaper The Wairarapa Times-Age, and senior reporter at the Herald on Sunday.

Heather McCracken’s Journalist Portfolio

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The cancer vaccine: Why so many kids are not immunized against HPV

The cancer vaccine: Why so many kids are not immunized against HPV

It has the potential to prevent thousands of cancer cases every year, but nine years after the rollout of the…

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Millennials are buying homes later, but still want a place of their own

Millennials are buying homes later, but still want a place of their own

Carlton J. Brown III is about to sign off on one of the biggest decisions of his life. The 29-year-old is buy…

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From Here To Hawaii

From Here To Hawaii

Even 60 years later, you can still picture them there. Lying on the beach as a frothy wave pours over them, a…

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NZ needs to step up as human rights leader

NZ needs to step up as human rights leader

Blind belief in New Zealand's status as a global human rights leader is hampering real progress, a new report…

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Rheumatic fever vaccine 'now within reach' - NZ Herald

Rheumatic fever vaccine 'now within reach' - NZ Herald

Transtasman researchers are confident a vaccine for rheumatic fever is now within reach.

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Win for 'Quake Outcasts' in red zone dispute

Win for 'Quake Outcasts' in red zone dispute

The Quake Outcasts group have had a partial victory in their appeal against the Government's buyout offers fo…

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Articles

A Machine Learning Approach to Classifying EEG Data Collected with or without Haptic Feedback during a Simulated Drilling Task

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By Heather McCracken, Alvaro Uribe-Quevedo, Brianna Grant, Paul Yielder
| MDPI
All articles published by MDPI are made immediately available worldwide under an open access license. No special permission is required to reuse all or part of the article published by MDPI, including figures and tables. For articles published under an open access Creative Common CC BY license, any part of the article may be reused without permission provided that the original article is clearly cited. For more information, please refer to https://www.mdpi.com/openaccess.
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Guns, gun violence, homicide rates

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By Andrew R. Morral, Liisa Ecola, Heather McCracken
| Homeland Security News Wire Verified
GUNSThe National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research: Five Years On Published 10 August 2024 What are the effects of red flag laws? What risks do people face when living with gun owners? What influences young people to carry guns? Just five years ago, little scientific evidence existed to answer to these questions because Congress barred federal funding of for research to find answers to these and other questions. What are the effects of red flag laws?
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The National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research: Five Years of Accomplishments

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By Andrew R. Morral, Liisa Ecola, Heather McCracken
| RAND Corporation
What are the effects of red flag laws? What risks do people face when living with gun owners? What influences young people to carry guns? Just five years ago, little scientific evidence existed to answer to these questions. That's because for two decades research on gun violence prevention had been largely unfunded at a federal level. The 1996 Dickey Amendment, which prohibited the use of federal research funding to promote gun control, had halted most funding for gun policy research.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first job post-graduation was as a night producer for talk radio. As a reporter, I got my start at the Eastern Courier, in Auckland, NZ.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Gus from season five of The Wire. No contest.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

No, but I wrote a column on high-school events called "College Comments" for my local newspaper.
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