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Podcast: Important, Not Important
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Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:17:30
Publish Date: 2023-03-24 21:00:00
Description:

This week:

Fighting over ESG is stupid, risky, and bad business. Let’s move on.

Plus: RSV vaccines, the E-BIKE Act, Skittles (?), deepfakes, allergies, and a new season of DRILLED

What We Can Do:


News Roundup

Health & Medicine

  • The FDA recommends 2 RSV vaccines for older adults — a huge public health win
  • We can learn a lot about how to eradicate homelessness from Houston and Helsinki
  • The 988 suicide hotline is expanding LGBTQ services with 24/7 chat and text - huzzah!
  • We really should celebrate the enormous — ENORMOUS — impact the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has had (and the thousands of people who fought for it)
  • The best and worst American cities for allergy-sufferers

Climate


Food & Water

  • Can we make and popularize toilets that don’t use running water?
  • California might ban Skittles (if this isn’t our most clicked on link, I don’t know what the point is)
  • We desperately need a new economics of water

Beep Boop


COVID


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