Scientists uncover link between car fumes and lung cancer that helps explain why so many non-smokers develop disease
— Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2022/sep/10/cancer-breakthrough-is-a-wake-up-call-on-danger-of-air-pollution
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Chernobyl’s trees are not decaying normally, increasing the risk of a nuclear wildfire – Wildfire Today
Chernobyl’s trees are not decaying normally, increasing the risk of a nuclear wildfire – Wildfire Today
— Read on wildfiretoday.com/2014/03/16/chernobyls-trees-are-not-decaying-normally-increasing-the-risk-of-a-nuclear-wildfire/
Taiwan’s Defenses Against Information Warfare Gain Attention – WSJ
Western officials are studying the island’s methods for combating what its government says are attempts by China to sow fear
— Read on www.wsj.com/articles/taiwans-defenses-against-information-warfare-gain-attention-11661419802
Colour Photography Before Colour Photography by Kai Bernau (Works That Work magazine)
Colour photographs taken over a hundred years ago using a primitive, long-abandoned process which produces spectacular images.
— Read on worksthatwork.com/
Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy…
Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy…
— Read on www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREADM.cgi
Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children’s Health | NEJM
Review Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Climate Change, Fossil-Fuel Pollution, and Children’s Health
— Read on www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra2117706
Scientists spot a massive group of feeding fin whales | Popular Science
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, a new survey signals that the world’s second-largest animal is staging a comeback.
— Read on www.popsci.com/environment/fin-whales-rebound-feeding-frenzy/
A Look at the Mental Health Provisions in the New Gun Law – Scientific American
Most of the $13 billion appropriated in the new legislation Congress recently passed focuses on mental health programs
— Read on www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-look-at-the-mental-health-provisions-in-the-new-gun-law/
An Anthropologist’s 20-Year Quest To Document Pakistan’s Ancient Rock Art
Having spent over two decades tirelessly researching art and culture in Pakistan, Kalhoro stands as possibly the only Pakistani who has extensively documented ancient rock art in the country.
— Read on www.forbes.com/sites/sonyarehman/2022/04/30/an-anthropologists-20-year-quest-to-document-pakistans-ancient-rock-art/
60. Cassandra Quave Thinks the Way Antibiotics Are Developed Might Kill Us | People I (Mostly) Admire
By mid-century, 10 million people a year are projected to die from untreatable infections. Can Cassandra, an ethnobotanist at Emory University convince Steve that herbs and ancient healing are key to our medical future?