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4 days ago · The first waves of interference included the suspension of public communication and study sections (groups that review grants) at the National Institutes of Health, and the aggressive dismantling of diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programming at NASA. Other activities then followed: the freezing of global health funds and the breaking of …

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Nov 3, 2024 · A fter a two-year hiatus, the Undark podcast returns with a new format and a new name: Entanglements. Join science journalists Brooke Borel and Anna Rothschild as they invite guests with both expertise and divergent opinions on some of the most contentious and politicized areas of science today, from vaccines and GMOs to deep sea mining, AI, and the origins of Covid.

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Dec 3, 2024 · Indeed, skeptics sometimes associate geoengineering with supervillain behavior, like a famous episode of The Simpsons in which the robber baron Mr. Burns blocks the sun. They warn that outdoor experiments could set humanity down a slippery slope, allowing powerful billionaires or individual countries to unleash hazardous technologies without input or agreement from the public more broadly, all ...