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Is what you’re working on important?
Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado River
Here's What You Can Do:⚡️ Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. Get some help with the Climate Mental Health Network.
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⚡️ Start a student alliance for tech ethics at your university with the Techshift Alliance.
Health & Medicine
The countries with the highest rates of malaria deaths have approved Oxford’s new vaccine
Brazil built a massive mosquito factory — it’s not what you think
Our friends at Biobot Analytics have expanded their wastewater monitoring into norovirus outbreaks
Are we close to a combo flu and COVID vaccine?
Climate
Why SUV’s got so big, and so popular
Germany shut down their remaining operational nuclear plants for really no reason, but banned new gas and oil heating?
Elon’s Twitter could break disaster response
Jigar’s Energy Department committed $3 billion to rooftop solar access for those with lower credit scores
Food & Water
These are EWG’s “Dirty Dozen” in produce
Radical “seed breeding” could bring about more climate friendly crops
The Colorado River crisis didn’t have to be this way, but big meat made it this way
The massive batteries sloshing around beneath our feet
Beep Boop
OpenAI’s hunger for data might come back to bite them
State tech laws are starting to look like state marijuana laws
How Mexico became the biggest user of Pegasus spyware
Hype grows over “autonomous” GPT
COVID
The NIH spent $1 billion on Long COVID research. Where’d it go?
Ed Yong is back and asking why we’re so keen on erasing Long COVID
Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/
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Is what you’re working on important?
Plus: The cleanest produce, a mosquito factory, lots of rooftop solar, autonomous GPT, maybe, and the latest with the Colorado River
Here's What You Can Do:⚡️ Climate change and mental health are inextricably linked. Get some help with the Climate Mental Health Network.
⚡️ Live in or own a multi-family building? Check out how BlocPower can help electrify it.
⚡️ If you’re like “I wonder if my town or state has e-bike rebates”, here’s a Google Sheet with every known rebate in the country
⚡️ Start a student alliance for tech ethics at your university with the Techshift Alliance.
Health & Medicine
The countries with the highest rates of malaria deaths have approved Oxford’s new vaccine
Brazil built a massive mosquito factory — it’s not what you think
Our friends at Biobot Analytics have expanded their wastewater monitoring into norovirus outbreaks
Are we close to a combo flu and COVID vaccine?
Climate
Why SUV’s got so big, and so popular
Germany shut down their remaining operational nuclear plants for really no reason, but banned new gas and oil heating?
Elon’s Twitter could break disaster response
Jigar’s Energy Department committed $3 billion to rooftop solar access for those with lower credit scores
Food & Water
These are EWG’s “Dirty Dozen” in produce
Radical “seed breeding” could bring about more climate friendly crops
The Colorado River crisis didn’t have to be this way, but big meat made it this way
The massive batteries sloshing around beneath our feet
Beep Boop
OpenAI’s hunger for data might come back to bite them
State tech laws are starting to look like state marijuana laws
How Mexico became the biggest user of Pegasus spyware
Hype grows over “autonomous” GPT
COVID
The NIH spent $1 billion on Long COVID research. Where’d it go?
Ed Yong is back and asking why we’re so keen on erasing Long COVID
Get more news, analysis, and Action Steps at https://www.importantnotimportant.com/
Got feedback? Email us at [email protected]
Follow us on Twitter at @importantnotimp
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Take a nap you deserve it
Advertise with us: https://www.importantnotimportant.com/c/sponsors

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