The Most Important Question

It’s always worth revisiting the inarguable fact that our country was designed to be inequitable.

And while much progress has been made over time, the powers that be continued to imagine and design ne…

This week:

• Climate change in the curriculum
• Increasingly divergent subvariants
• Cell-cultured meat
• RSV vaccines are coming
• Generative AI (...didn't write this, but it might one day)

Here's What You Can Do:

• …

Climate change is a touchy topic in farm country. But one third of greenhouse gas emissions come from food and agriculture, so it’s crucial that the industry becomes part of the climate change soluti…

This week:

• $1 billion for electric school buses
• A potential "tripledemic" sandwich (not as delicious as it sounds!)
• One person's (treated) wastewater is another person's drinking water
• Most pregnancy-re…

Throughout history, kings, queens, governments, churches, and donors have funded contests and awarded prizes for solving the most difficult problems of the day.

Today, as we stand on the precipice of …

This week:

• Plant-based meat stocks
• Another COVID winter is coming
• A long-term plan for the baby formula shortage
• The uncertain future of telehealth
• Willfully shunning data privacy

Here's What You Can Do:

• H…

Let's talk robots.

But first: There’s a very particular bottleneck where groundbreaking science is more applicable than ever but inaccessible to many. 

The tools are unaffordable to the schools and gro…

How lucky are we?

How lucky are we that we live in a time of such great opportunity – when, yes, we’re teetering on the edge of a global climate calamity, still reeling from a pandemic, knowing that o…

This week:

• What climate change means for insurance
• Pregnancy and the COVID vaccine
• Food insecurity in America
• What wildfire smoke means for air quality
• Internet blackout in Iran

What we can do

• Understand y…

This week:

• It's hurricane season
• Viral levels in wastewater spiking
• What the world might look like in 2050
• Results from the biggest-ever Alzheimer's study
• Asking better questions about our apps

Action Ste…

For decades Americans have relied on wood, oil, and gas to power, heat, and cool our homes, and the water we use to drink, cool, and bathe in. But these things have helped fuel our climate crisis – b…

This week:

• The companies building a new clean economy (and the pretenders)
• The "I" in COVID
• Defrauded pandemic funds for hungry kids
• Preventing overdoses with safer supply programs
• Increasing surveillanc…

Let’s say you get sick. 

Diabetes. Cancer. Heart disease. Long COVID. PTSD. MS. Depression. Alzheimer’s

Despite the best efforts of your physician, nothing’s working. They’re out of answers, and you’re…

This week:

• What's happening with cars and micro-mobility in America
• Brain fog
• A food system rundown
• The corporations backing a national abortion ban
• Border agents are taking your phone data

Action Steps

• Wa…

Curious about the climate? Then there’s a show I want to tell you about—A Matter of Degrees, where Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate ch…

This week:

• Corporate clean energy purchases go down as temperatures go up
• The current status of COVID-19 vaccines
• Moving towards a healthier, climate-friendly diet
• A promising new malaria vaccine
• Back to…

This week:

• The cost of electrification
• The end of free COVID tests
• The water crisis in Jackson
• Minimizing cancer treatment side effects
• The companies selling your location data to the police

Action Steps

• R…

This week:

• Heat in China ramping up a clean economy arms race
• How to learn more about Long COVID
• Cleaning up after coal
• Magic mushrooms and depression
• Better data for pregnant people

Action Steps

• Check out…

This week:

• What IRA means for cars
• Centralizing data for the next pandemic
• A parched Earth
• Big Pharma is Big Mad about IRA
• Fingers crossed that Big Tech will protect democracy

Action Steps:

• Listen to a ver…

“What can I do?” This is the question I get most often. 

It’s the question that early on pivoted our newsletter and then this podcast towards measurable action steps that help you feel better and driv…