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Lead crisis

lundi 23 mars 2020 à 01:00

*Newark’s Lead Crisis Isn't Over: "People Are Still Drinking Water That They Shouldn't".*

Deportation of people with Covid-19

lundi 23 mars 2020 à 01:00

The US is deporting people with Covid-19, who then spread the disease to another country — and probably won't get treatment there if they have a bad case of it.

Academic studies funded by Monsanto

lundi 23 mars 2020 à 01:00

Academic studies which claimed to prove that world agriculture can't get along without Roundup were secretly funded by Monsanto.

Quarantine

lundi 23 mars 2020 à 01:00

Quarantine, including imposed self-isolation, tend to traumatize people, much as solitary confinement in prison does.

The two are quite similar. In the latter, guards forcibly keep someone away from everyone else. In the former, they compel someone to avoid everyone else.

There is another version, shunning, in which someone is compelled to avoid everyone else because they reject per. I think that traumatizes people too.

The article says that people can withstand quarantine better if they understand clearly the reasons for the quarantine system and when it will end.

Using drones to exterminate invasive animals

lundi 23 mars 2020 à 01:00

New Zealand is developing a drone that can drop poison bait on a precise target, near an invasive animal that would eat it.

Eventually Australia may be able to use this to exterminate rabbits. Is there any way to poison a cane toad?