Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
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07/25/2022
How to Preserve Dignity in the Digital Age
Digital privacy leader Danielle Citron discusses her forthcoming book "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age."
07/18/2022
Sick Honeybees Find Lifeline in Covid Vaccine Technology
GreenLight Biosciences uses RNA technology to target parasites partly blamed for bee crisis.
07/27/2022
Oldest patient yet cured of HIV after stem cell transplant – researchers
While the transplant was planned to treat the now-66-year-old's leukaemia, the doctors also sought a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, a mechanism that first worked to cure the "Berlin patient", Timothy Ray Brown, in 2007.
07/28/2022
Genetic heart conditions could be cured for first time in ‘defining moment’
Team of experts from UK, US and Singapore to design jab to save thousands of lives by rewriting DNA.
07/28/2022
Opinion: Yes, Social Media Really Is Undermining Democracy
Within the past 15 years, social media has insinuated itself into American life more deeply than food-delivery apps into our diets and microplastics into our bloodstreams.
07/28/2022
What Could Go Right? The rent is too damn high!
Some solutions for the housing crisis
07/21/2022
The Policy Ask with Diane Coyle: “Benefit support does not meet basic needs”
The Cambridge University professor on leveling up and the need to legislate around adequate standards of living.
07/21/2022
Your Mind on Psychedelics — with Michael Pollan
Michael Pollan, the NYT bestselling author of “This Is Your Mind on Plants,” joins Scott to discuss his research on the psychedelic space, including the changes he has registered over time as well as his own experience with the drugs.
07/18/2022
Blue Angels name first woman to serve as demonstration pilot
Lt. Amanda Lee has made history as the first woman to serve as a demonstration pilot in the Blue Angels.
06/15/2022
Gen-Z & the New Center | Manu Meel with John Wood Jr.
Manu Meel and the students of the cross-partisan campus group BridgeUSA are the vanguard of the civic bridge-building movement nationwide.
07/09/2022
‘Tiny feet poking out’: Breeding boom for rare plains wanderer
A small, “hot” glowing white dot on the thermal camera is what usually gives away the nighttime presence of the plains wanderer, a very rare and elusive bird that lives on the arid plains of eastern Australia.
07/21/2022