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Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:30:57
Publish Date: 2023-03-17 19:00:00
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This week:

What we know — and more importantly, what we don’t — about what AI is capable of, and how much change we’re capable of absorbing.

Plus: the Willow Project, H-1B visas, blueberries, honeybee vaccines, climate disclosure rules, next-gen bed nets, and health insurance in North Carolina

Here's What You Can Do:

  • ️ Just a few bucks buys some life-saving bed nets with Against Malaria, maybe the most effective NGO on the planet
  • ️ The only thing dumber than cancer is rare cancers. Good news: you can help fund research against them (and work up a sweat at the same time) with our friends at Cycle for Survival
  • ️ This is the best electric vehicle you can buy
  • ️ Get educated and follow the Black Maternal Health Caucus on Twitter
  • ️ Understand your home’s exposure to flooding, fires, heat and wind with Risk Factor

News Roundup

Health & Medicine


Climate

  • Joe Biden approved the Willow Project in Alaska and it sucks, but on the other hand, the US is on track for a major clean energy milestone
  • The world’s first honeybee vaccine is like “magic”
  • Use this tool to see how early spring came to your neighborhood
  • In the future, it might still cost $1 trillion per ppm of CO2 removed, we should pay for it
  • The SEC’s climate disclosure rules are coming. 85% of business execs said they’re not ready.
  • Why did insurers slash Hurricane Ian payouts?

Food & Water


Beep Boop


COVID

  • COVID made maternal health outcomes much worse (and especially among Black people)
  • There doesn’t seem to be an association between Paxlovid and a COVID rebound, which is great

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