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Oct. 15, 2021

Issue #251: Moderna Made How Much?

This week: climate finance exposed; Moderna’s COVID profits are… a lot; beef’s emissions problem examined; startups for aging, and who gets to write the AI Bill of Rights? Find links from this newsletter and more at important...

Oct. 8, 2021

Issue #250: Bye Malaria

This week: How to reduce methane; America’s out of diapers; COVID questions; A new day against malaria; Food systems examined; How you’re tracked Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newslette...

Oct. 1, 2021

Issue #249: It's Climate Day in America (I Hope)

This week: It’s Climate Day; How to defeat the next pandemic; Telehealth in red states; Is lab-grown meat a myth; Facebook’s very bad month continues Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsl...

Sept. 24, 2021

#248: How We Deal With Facebook

This week: Manchin wields a dirty pen; Our new COVID rules; Fighting for expanded telehealth; 200 million climate migrants; Even more trolls Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter Got...

Sept. 10, 2021

Issue #247: Close Your Rings

This week: Solar’s wilding out; $65 billion for the next pandemic; Better, cheaper, more inclusive clinical trials; Protecting farmworkers; Biden’s AI board Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.co...

Sept. 3, 2021

Issue #246: Is This The Metaverse?

This week: Climate tech billions; COVID goals; A new hope for neurodegenerative diseases; An IPCC for food; Facial recognition knows no bounds. Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter ...

Aug. 27, 2021

Issue #245: Will The Levees Hold?

This week: Wind NIMBY’s; More nurses, stat; Diabetes on the rise; Evictions; Cybersecurity commitments. Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter Got feedback? Email us at questions@impo...

Aug. 20, 2021

Issue #244: These Are The Easy Wins

This week: Operate from a place of self-awareness; God, we are so bad at math; A half-century later; Drive pediatric cancer research; What’s the future of meat work? TikTok misinformation enters the chat. Find links from this...

Aug. 6, 2021

Issue #242: Facebook's Oil Ads Are Killing Us

This week: 50% isn’t good enough; Facebook fossil fuel ads; How to get shots to Africa; Oysters!?; Why has AI failed to help during COVID? Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter Got f...

Aug. 2, 2021

Issue #241: A Different Kind of Thirst Trap, Back to the Mask, Where’s Smokey the Bear when you need him?

This week: FDA got next?; Flooded subways; Delta's a game-changer; Epic (AI) fail; Fire predictions; Food stamp groceries delivered. Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter Got feedbac...

July 23, 2021

Issue #240: The Pizza King of Vaccines, Beef: It’s (Still) for Dinner, Investors on Notice

This week: The climate crisis kicked down the door of the west and global north this week; The Pizza King of Vaccines; Mental health care now available everywhere; The Human-Machine interface; You like drugs, Danny? Find link...

July 16, 2021

Issue #239: Go to Farmers’ Markets, Climate Reparations, Held Hostage by Hackers

This week: deep breath; COVID all around the world; there are two Americas and it’s obvious why; the global hungry jump to 768 million; call your doctor!; money for nothing; held hostage by hackers. Find links from this newsl...

July 9, 2021

Issue #238: Seattle in the Oven, Vaccine Money Grab, Building Biased Robots

This week: To understand Africa, look to India -- or not; Reverse course; Don’t believe everything you read -- especially Best Buy food labels; New headline, who dis? Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotim...

July 2, 2021

Issue #237: Do the Dew Point, Thanos SNAP Benefits, Putting the AI in Ethical

This week: What’s a dew point, anyways?; The COVID Delta variant is here; And then there were six; An all female Justice League of social media. #51: Are We Talking About CRISPR All Wrong? Also, What The Hell Is CRISPR? Find ...

June 25, 2021

Issue #236: Amazon Held to Ransom (Not That One), COVID Doesn’t Discriminate (But We Do), Vaccinate the 99%

This week: it’s Bolsonaro all the way down; the 99%; 44 thousand patients can’t be wrong; “fire beats water” should be relegated to D&D; Find links from this newsletter and more at importantnotimportant.com/newsletter Got fee...