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This week:

• Should we mine the ocean?
• Mask mandates are over, what else?
• Split up the FDA
• Alzheimer's trials are very white
• Ronan Farrow comes for Pegasus spyware

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• Carbon removal: Hope is not a plan. A bajillion dollars might be!
• COVID and diabetes is the new Bennifer
• Walmart's regenerative farming pledge is about dirt
• PFAS in food wrappers, not delicio…

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Over the past few years, more and more voters have cited “action on climate” as a reason for voting the way they do.

From Data for Progress, in October:

• Over two-thirds of voters (68 percent), agree th…

This week:

• The climate tech gap, explained
• Free COVID tests, over (for some)
• The future of freshwater
• Millions of nurses, lost
• Facebook, unregulated, still

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This week:

• The SEC's new climate rule, summarized
• J&J's COVID shot, redeemed?
• How to protect food workers in the climate age
• PTSD and ecstasy
• Russia's lack of cyber warfare, hypothesized

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A little while ago, I had a conversation with Dr. Madhukar Pai about vaccine equity.

In it, I tried to understand why and how developed countries were spending billions on COVID vaccine boosters, but …

This week:

• ESG's crumbling
• COVID on the rise, funding vanishes
• California's breadbasket at risk
• Gene therapy pricing
• Your biometric data for sale, part 73

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There’s no word for “conservation” in many Indigenous languages.

Some come close, but mean something more like “taking care of” or “looking after.”

And that’s probably because the very idea of conserva…

This week:

• Putin's oil, rejected
• The lives we write off
• What "sustainable" really means, or, nothing
• Lead pipes, still
• Microsoft's new cancer bot

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There’s these metaphors that sum up a lot of what we’re trying to do here, what needs to be done on planet Earth, from climate change to COVID to AI ethics, which is something you definitely need to …

This week:

• The IPCC report, by the numbers
• Biden's new COVID plan
• Wheat (prices) on the rise
• Mental health apps need to meditate on some randomized control trials
• Pegasus: Not a horse! This time

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Jafar Tabebordbar was in his early 30’s, living and working as an accountant in Shiraz, Iran, when he became a father.

It was 1986, nearly a decade after the 1979 revolution, and Jafar’s muscles were …

This week:

• Gas: the forever bridge fuel
• Boosters, boosted
• Megadrought self-awareness
• Maternal deaths on the rise
• Your location data, for sale

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In 2019, Quinn interviewed his good friend Craig Mazin, writer, producer, and creator of the hit HBO miniseries, Chernobyl, to learn what happened there, and what it means for our energy future.

This …

This week:

• America will see an average of 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050
• 1 million COVID deaths
• $1 billion for cover crops
• Antimicrobial resistance got next
• Clearview's next steps (to harvest your d…

This week:

• Carbon markets are magic and demand to be taken seriously, Michael
• Mask mandates are ending
• Food prices up the rise
• Biden's cancer moonshot
• IRS FaceTime cancelled

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This week:

• Will the EPA's powers be gutted?
• Don't forget your vaccines for everything else
• PFAS can't get regulated soon enough
• Everywhere needs more nurses
• The database with virtually everyone's most pr…

It's been 26 months since so many of us took our kids out of schools, downloaded an app called Zoom, and started videoconferencing our work from our kitchens and sweatpants. For many others, especial…

This week:

• Gas stoves can GTFO
• Omicron means we still need masks at schools
• The future of "organic" food
• Throwing cash at bigger baby brains
• Pregnancy apps are a data nightmare which is so so great

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