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Commentary: An intriguing new book, "A Glossary for Other Worlds" helps us reinterpret reality "when familiar language is too narrow."
New words to live by, new worlds to occupy
Institutions and policymakers should draw on unconventional concepts from diverse traditions to challenge entrenched assumptions and navigate complex change more creatively.
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‘We took on the machine’: El-Sayed celebrates triumph over outside spending after winning Democratic nomination in Michigan Senate race – live
The former public health official beat congresswoman Haley Stevens in race to face Republican Mike Rogers to represent state
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Tainted fruits and vegetables sicken more Americans than any other foods. […]Contaminated salad greens alone are responsible for an estimated 2.3 million cases of illness and $5.2 billion in health care costs a year.
Opinion | This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick (Gift Article)
Cyclospora outbreaks are just a small part of a much larger food safety crisis linked to fresh produce.
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"Perhaps the worst blow to food safety science was the administration’s elimination of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods, a group of experts whose recommendations have informed many major food safety programs." gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
Michigan has reported 2 deaths in an ongoing Cyclospora outbreak. Food microbiology and safety expert Lee-Ann Jaykus spoke to Think Global Health about the current outbreak, the state of the U.S. food surveillance system, and the potentially expanding risk of foodborne disease.
Cyclospora Outbreak: Is Foodborne Illness Becoming More Common in the United States? | Think Global Health
According to food microbiologist Lee-Ann Jaykus, climate change and funding cuts could lead to greater risk of foodborne disease
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CDF President & CEO Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation President Dr. Rich Besser co-authored this op-ed reflecting on the need to protect and listen to America's young people in the face of national public health failures jeopardizing their well-being: https://bit.ly/4qR9Owf
“Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991.”
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
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CNN: Measles in the US is at 35-year high, the 2nd record-breaking year in a row. 93% of these cases are among unvaccinated. This is happening on your watch. For years, you denied the efficacy of vaccines. Do you accept some responsibility for this outbreak? RFK: Absolutely not.
The CDC has linked six additional states to a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with iceberg lettuce, according to a CDC official familiar with the investigation.
C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak to More States
Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina are now among the states linked to the outbreak associated with iceberg lettuce.
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Daytime darkness will descend Aug. 12 across the Iberian Peninsula close to sunset — plus slivers of Greenland and Iceland — as the sun, moon and Earth align perfectly in the sky. https://to.pbs.org/4w87NOn
Total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland in August
For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain with an even longer encore next summer.
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Sunday night marked the sixth islandwide blackout since the Trump administration effectively cut Cuba off from oil — its main energy source — in January. The move plunged the endemically crisis-stricken country into free-fall. https://to.pbs.org/4xjAUiI
Cubans sleep on Havana's seaside boulevard to seek relief from crippling blackouts and summer heat
Cuba suffered its sixth islandwide blackout this year. The nation has been in crisis since the Trump administration affectively cut it off from oil in January.
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Rebeca Grynspan, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett y Rafael Grossi son los más apoyados en el primer sondeo del Consejo de Seguridad para elegir al próximo secretario general de la ONU.
Grynspan, Rodrigues-Birkett y Grossi, los más apoyados en el sondeo de candidatos a secretario general de la ONU - EFE
Rebeca Grynspan, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett y Rafael Grossi fueron los más apoyados en el sondeo de candidatos a secretario general de la ONU.
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📜📸 Preliminary UNSC poll shows Rebeca Grynspan, UNCTAD Head, of Costa Rica, front-runner in Secretary-General race #PreliminaryUNSC
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A milestone in the race for the next UN Secretary-General The 🇺🇳UN Town Hall brought together UN Members, civil society representatives and UN staff to hear directly from the six candidates. Read up on the candidates and top issues.
“A straight-up old-school masterpiece display: a sampler and a looker.” Read the rest of Holland Cotter’s @nytimes.com review of “Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon”: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
Touching Enlightenment Through a Storied Rockefeller Art Trove
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The 2026 Global Fusion Industry Report is here. The report provides the definitive annual snapshot of the global fusion industry. It gives an update on investment, milestones, timelines, and profiles of the companies driving towards deployment. www.fusionindustryassociation.org/fusion-indus...
Sharing the conviction that AI deployed responsibly could help solve humanity’s most pressing problems, incl. climate change, @itusecgen.bsky.social SG Doreen Bogdan-Martin highlights the challenges AI itself is bringing, including how its electricity use is on track to more than double by 2030.
The GEN is at the central stage of #AIForGood Global Summit 2026, which will focus on why global cooperation on policy innovation, skills and standards matters now more than ever, including on #AI, towards scalable solutions for people & planet. ▶️ aiforgood.itu.int/event/togeth...
Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its control? www.wired.com/story/robot-...
Robot Dogs, Teslas, and Rescue Helicopters: The UN AI Summit Was a Lot
Amid live coding sessions and Silicon Valley optimism, the UN’s AI for Good summit wrestled with an increasingly urgent question: Can global governance catch up before the technology races beyond its...
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Over the past week, UNIDIR joined global conversations on the future of AI – from the Global Dialogue on AI Governance to @itu.int's AI for Good Summit 🌐 🔗 Learn more about our Centre of Excellence on AI, Peace and Security: unidir.org/CAIPS
UNIDIR’s Centre of Excellence on AI, Peace and Security → UNIDIR
The Centre of Excellence on AI, Peace and Security is UNIDIR’s global, permanent platform dedicated to advancing AI governance in the peace and security domain.
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Antony Blinken: The US once led the effort shaping rules, norms, and institutions that will govern how AI is developed and used around the world--showing how innovation & governance could advance together and bring other countries with us x.com/ABlinken/status/2078183113193103407
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China understands that leadership in AI is not just about building the most capable models. It is about shaping the rules, norms, and institutions that will govern how AI is developed and used around ...
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This Week: Fmr OpenAI board member Helen Toner on whether it'll take a serious crisis for Congress to act on AI regulation. Many people in AI governance worry that we need some kind of Chernobyl accident, some kind of real-world disaster to wake up and actually take action x.com/ThisWeekABC/...
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Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner on whether it will take a serious crisis for Congress to act on AI regulation: “A lot of people in [the AI governance space] worry that we need some kind of Cher...
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This Week: 1,300 employees say AI companies don't have a brake pedal… & don't really understand the tech they're building Fmr OpenAI board member Helen Toner says AI companies "have trouble controlling” emerging tech after Anthropic models hack an organization during tests x.com/ThisWeekABC/...
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“Just this past week, we saw 1,300 employees of top AI companies saying that they don't think they have a brake pedal … They don't really understand the technology that they're building.” Former Ope...
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Anthropic says 3 frontier AI models — including Mythos 5 — accessed real-world systems during cybersecurity testing after a testing environment was mistakenly left connected to the internet. The disclosure follows OpenAI's recent report of similar testing incidents.
Anthropic says three Claude models reached real-world systems during cyber tests
This is the second frontier lab that has seen its models break into real companies while testing
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The unconditional-love phase of Wall Street’s AI romance is over. As Meta and Google learned, investors want better answers if they’re going to keep underwriting hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of investments in data centers and AI models development.
Meta Stumbles as Tech Investors Demand Better Answers on AI Spending
Meta fell and Microsoft rallied after sending very different signals on how they’re monetizing their massive AI outlays.
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China cracks another piece of the chip puzzle, US unhappy: China was never supposed to get this far, the US tried to ensure that through its sanctions. Beijing, however, had other ideas. https://ranked.news/1195510?u=b
« Les intérêts financiers sont massifs » : ouvrir ou fermer les modèles, les enjeux de la dernière bataille de l’IA ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/A5Y3
Healthy ecosystems support clean water, food security, resilient communities, and the incredible diversity of life on Earth. On #WorldNatureConservationDay, learn why #biodiversity matters — and what today's choices mean for tomorrow: https://ow.ly/RTNc50ZtPuu
