The Most Important Question

Essay: 10 Questions You Need to Ask Right Now

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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:

  • ⚡️ PFAS (“forever chemicals”) have been linked to serious health problems. Urge Congress bans PFAS from all food contact materials by using this script from Toxic-Free Future.

  • ⚡️ Work in marketing? Join Clean Creatives, a movement of advertisers and PR professionals, and pledge to cut ties with fossil fuels.

  • ⚡️ Reclaim your right to privacy online with the Mullvad VPN (I use it every day).

  • ⚡️ 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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