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Plus: Gut inflammation news, California insurance gets harder to find, 750k adults just lost Medicaid, what (non-vaccinated) COVID actually does to your lungs, and more
Here's What You Can Do:
- ⚡️ PFAS (“forever chemicals”) have been linked to serious health problems. Urge Congress bans PFAS from all food contact materials by using this script from Toxic-Free Future.
- ⚡️ Work in marketing? Join Clean Creatives, a movement of advertisers and PR professionals, and pledge to cut ties with fossil fuels.
- ⚡️ Reclaim your right to privacy online with the Mullvad VPN (I use it every day).
- ⚡️ Keep informed with Circle of Blue’s in-depth reporting on the solutions and challenges to the water scarcity crisis.
News Roundup
Health & Medicine
- Most pregnancy-related deaths occur in the year after a baby is born, prompting new strategies in caring for new mothers
- The science behind how chronic stress impacts gut health
- Nano-plastics are causing inflammation in the gut and brain, but the damage is reversible when they’re removed
- Maybe everyone knowing where you are at all times isn’t actually the healthiest thing for our relationships? Imagine being a teen worrying that everyone is hanging out without you, and then confirming your suspicions are correct
Climate
- State Farm is no longer accepting homeowner insurance applications in California
- What the Debt Ceiling Deal means for the climate
- The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is changing the way the government calculates the costs and benefits of regulation, all in the name of fighting pollution
- How and where to build a strong manufacturing base for clean energy in the US
Food & Water
- How the debt ceiling agreement will put 750,000 older adults at risk of losing food assistance
- Commodity farmers are using regenerative cover cropping to adapt to climate change
- A million plastic bottles are purchased worldwide every minute. EVERY MINUTE! That’s a shit ton. If you need help visualizing a shit ton, here’s a visual.
Beep Boop
- A summary of Wolfram Alpha’s breakdown on what the hell is going on with ChatGPT and LLM’s
- It’s time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence
- Amazon has settled with the FTC for illegally spying on users and collecting kids data
COVID
- Here’s what COVID does to your lungs
- And the 12 most common symptoms associated with Long COVID
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