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The weekly INI newsletter. A tent-pole essay, plus Action Steps and a news round-up. 10/10, you're welcome.
June 17, 2022

Newsletter #280: What's next for Alzheimer's?

This week: Where do gas cars go when we buy electric? A bunch of COVID updates The Colorado River's next chapter What's next for Alzheimer's Holy shit Facebook's tracking pixel is more invasive than expected, which is saying…
June 10, 2022

Newsletter #279: Moderna's got a new booster

This week: Biden's going it alone on electrification Moderna's got a new booster Why food is so expensive An unbelievable cancer result Apple's saying goodbye to passwords Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps …
June 3, 2022

Newsletter #278: The deal with monkeypox

This week: SEC climate risk reporting gets closer to reality What's the Paxlovid rebound? How to make strawberries last weeks longer What the hell is monkeypox? Mastercard wants to give you variable interest rates in exchang…
May 27, 2022

Newsletter #277: Why EV batteries are suddenly SO expensive?

This week: Lithium is expensive AF because it's in wildly short supply Paxlovid and Long COVID, a thing? Global breadbaskets are getting hotter and/or wetter and/or laced with explosives Fuck guns Healthcare info privacy is …
May 13, 2022

Newsletter #276: Who gets Long COVID?

This week: Water in the West Who will get Long COVID? The baby formula shortage, explained Drug overdoses and gaslighting Data privacy improvements Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantn…
May 6, 2022

Newsletter #275: How Hot is it in India?

This week: India's heat continues When a surge is not a surge Antibiotics (still) in meat Abortion Email cybersecurity is...lacking Get more: Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at newsletter.importantnotimportant.com …
April 29, 2022

Newsletter #274: Is Wind Power Unprofitable?

This week: Wind isn't profitable Kids vaccines on the hold up The kitchen sink answer to food waste, it's metaphors galore today Menthol cigarettes are all smoked out America's new AI chief Get more: Get more news, analysis,…
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…