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The weekly tent-pole essay, plus Action Steps. 10/10, you're welcome.
April 22, 2022
Newsletter #273: Where Batteries Come From
This week: Should we mine the ocean? Mask mandates are over, what else? Split up the FDA Alzheimer's trials are very white Ronan Farrow comes for Pegasus spyware Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newslet…
April 15, 2022
Newsletter #272: Is carbon removal real?
This week: Carbon removal: Hope is not a plan. A bajillion dollars might be! COVID and diabetes is the new Bennifer Walmart's regenerative farming pledge is about dirt PFAS in food wrappers, not delicious How hospitals get c…
April 1, 2022
Newsletter #271: What is the climate gap?
This week: The climate tech gap, explained Free COVID tests, over (for some) The future of freshwater Millions of nurses, lost Facebook, unregulated, still Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.im…
March 25, 2022
Newsletter #270: Did you hear about ecstasy?
This week: The SEC's new climate rule, summarized J&J's COVID shot, redeemed? How to protect food workers in the climate age PTSD and ecstasy Russia's lack of cyber warfare, hypothesized Get more: Get more news, analysis, an…
March 18, 2022
Newsletter #269: The ESG Bubble
This week: ESG's crumbling COVID on the rise, funding vanishes California's breadbasket at risk Gene therapy pricing Your biometric data for sale, part 73 Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.imp…
March 11, 2022
Newsletter #268: This is the transition in real time
This week: Putin's oil, rejected The lives we write off What "sustainable" really means, or, nothing Lead pipes, still Microsoft's new cancer bot Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnot…
March 4, 2022
Newsletter #267: What's in the IPCC plan
This week: The IPCC report, by the numbers Biden's new COVID plan Wheat (prices) on the rise Mental health apps need to meditate on some randomized control trials Pegasus: Not a horse! This time Get more: Get more news, anal…
Feb. 25, 2022
Newsletter #266: What gas means in all of this
This week: Gas: the forever bridge fuel Boosters, boosted Megadrought self-awareness Maternal deaths on the rise Your location data, for sale Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimpo…
Feb. 19, 2022
Newsletter #265: What Sea Level Rise Means
This week: America will see an average of 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050 1 million COVID deaths $1 billion for cover crops Antimicrobial resistance got next Clearview's next steps (to harvest your data) Get more: Get mo…
Feb. 11, 2022
Newsletter #264: Where masks are coming off
This week: Carbon markets are magic and demand to be taken seriously, Michael Mask mandates are ending Food prices up the rise Biden's cancer moonshot IRS FaceTime cancelled Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Step…
Feb. 8, 2022
Newsletter #263: Michael Scott on vaccines
This week: Will the EPA's powers be gutted? Don't forget your vaccines for everything else PFAS can't get regulated soon enough Everywhere needs more nurses The database with virtually everyone's most private health info jus…
Jan. 28, 2022
Newsletter #262: Rihanna has entered the chat
This week: Gas stoves can GTFO Omicron means we still need masks at schools The future of "organic" food Throwing cash at bigger baby brains Pregnancy apps are a data nightmare which is so so great Get more: Get more news, a…
Jan. 21, 2022
Newsletter #261: How to market climate change
This week: How to market climate change to the people Here come the masks - are they enough? What's "enough"? Kids EBT food on the wane Expanding the blood donor pool The IRS wants your selfie (or do they?) Get more: Get mor…
Jan. 14, 2022
Newsletter #260: What "Mild" COVID Really Means
This week: Moving on from Machin; What "mild" COVID really means; How China's going plant-based; How exercise defeats anxiety; This is what happens when old senators misunderstand new tech Get more news, analysis, and Action…
Dec. 13, 2021
Issue #258: What Omicron Means For You
This week: Biden's executive orders; What Omicron means for you; The future of coffee farmer migration; Telehealth lobbying on the rise; China's queer internet is being erased Find links and Action Steps from this newsletter…