Cars kill in more ways than one.

Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds

Research suggests 41,800 premature US deaths in 2024 were attributable to road pollution

theguardian.com

The U.S. says Africans’ health data shared under humanitarian aid deals will be aggregated and anonymized, but the State Department’s demands have sparked an outcry in Africa and raised concerns that the data could be misused or exploited.

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

propublica.org

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

theguardian.com

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

scim.ag

ourworldindata.org/grapher/muni... Any insights on how reliable these data are?

How solid municipal waste is managed

Share of solid municipal waste, by mass, that is managed by different methods. Open dumps and open burning are most polluting as they increase the risk of waste escaping into the environment, and gene...

ourworldindata.org

It makes no sense that Speaker Heastie may be trying to kill a bill that would finally slow down New York's repeat reckless drivers. But according to yesterday’s reporting in @hellgatenyc.com, that’s exactly what’s happening.

Stop Super Speeders Bill Hits a Roadblock—Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie

"It's like one guy who doesn't like this stuff, and unfortunately that one guy is the most powerful guy in the State Assembly."

hellgatenyc.com

Some of the world’s best chefs are switching from gas stoves to induction to get better control and consistent results.

With Induction Stoves, Chefs Discover a Foolproof Path to Perfection

From Michelin kitchens to home wok burners, induction delivers consistency that gas can’t match.

bloom.bg

" Our estimates show that, unless the abrupt funding cuts announced and implemented in the first half of 2025 are reversed, a staggering number of avoidable deaths could occur by 2030." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

thelancet.com

Wild to me that the thing that finally resulted in the anti-vaxxers winning was a deadly pandemic that demonstrated the true magic of vaccines in front of everyone’s eyes

blogs.worldbank.org/en/energy/cl...?

Sub-Saharan Africa: The number of people lacking access to clean cooking is growing

Access to clean cooking is now recognized by the development community, including many governments in Sub-Saharan Africa, as central to economic growth. An example of that is the inclusion of clean co...

blogs.worldbank.org

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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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