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Roots of Indo-European? Diagnostic bias?

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Have you been keeping up? Evaluate your understanding of this week’s Gazette with our news quiz.

Shortage of primary care. New perspectives on history. An exceptional contribution. What stands out to you from this week at Harvard?


1. In a recent study concerning subjectivity in the evaluation of neurodevelopmental disorders, Harvard scholars observed a 14 percent rise in childhood ADHD diagnoses under which circumstance?




2. In 1925, excavators from the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition revealed the Tomb of Idu adjacent to the Great Pyramid at Giza. What new acquisition at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East is enhancing visitor understanding of that tomb chapel?




3. The Harvard Art Museums are poised to launch a new showcase because of a significant donation of the creations of which artist?




4. Significant Harvard research released this week determined the initial speakers of proto-Indo-European, the ancestral language of tongues spoken by roughly 40 percent of the global population. In which contemporary nation did the scientists find the speakers of this ancient language?




5. The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission has indicated that the state of primary care in the Commonwealth is “critical” as doctors retire and fewer medical students pursue this specialty. What measures could potentially assist?





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