Essay: 10 Questions You Need to Ask Right Now

This week:

Ask these questions before you click on ANYTHING.

Plus: Gut inflammation news, California insurance gets harder to find, 750k adults just lost Medicaid, what (non-vaccinated) COVID actually does to your lungs, and more

Here's What You Can Do:

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• ⚡️ Work in marketing? Join Clean Creatives, a movement of advertisers and PR professionals, and pledge to cut ties with fossil fuels.
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• ⚡️ Keep informed with Circle of Blue’s in-depth reporting on the solutions and challenges to the water scarcity crisis.

News Roundup

Health & Medicine

• Most pregnancy-related deaths occur in the year after a baby is born, prompting new strategies in caring for new mothers
• The science behind how chronic stress impacts gut health
• Nano-plastics are causing inflammation in the gut and brain, but the damage is reversible when they’re removed
• Maybe everyone knowing where you are at all times isn’t actually the healthiest thing for our relationships? Imagine being a teen worrying that everyone is hanging out without you, and then confirming your suspicions are correct

Climate

• State Farm is no longer accepting homeowner insurance applications in California
• What the Debt Ceiling Deal means for the climate
• The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs is changing the way the government calculates the costs and benefits of regulation, all in the name of fighting pollution
• How and where to build a strong manufacturing base for clean energy in the US

Food & Water

• How the debt ceiling agreement will put 750,000 older adults at risk of losing food assistance
• Commodity farmers are using regenerative cover cropping to adapt to climate change
• A million plastic bottles are purchased worldwide every minute. EVERY MINUTE! That’s a shit ton. If you need help visualizing a shit ton, here’s a visual.

Beep Boop

• A summary of Wolfram Alpha’s breakdown on what the hell is going on with ChatGPT and LLM’s
• It’s time to start thinking about the governance of superintelligence
• Amazon has settled with the FTC for illegally spying on users and collecting kids data

COVID

• Here’s what COVID does to your lungs
• And the 12 most common symptoms associated with Long COVID

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