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Pulling Funding for Fossil Fuel Projects in Africa Is Unjust October 19, 2021
Wealthy countries are increasingly vowing to cease public funding for nearly all fossil fuel projects in less developed countries while making no such commitments at home. The blunt exclusion of these projects is an inequitable and ineffective climate strategy that gaslights more than a billion Africans.
Benjamin Attia & Morgan Bazilian
Limits to Growth: Can AI’s Voracious Appetite for Data Be Tamed? October 18, 2021
By processing massive datasets, machine learning reveals patterns in data. But some computer scientists are asking whether the brute force approach of compiling ever-larger datasets is necessary to sustain AI technology, and if the expansion can continue indefinitely. They’re also looking for an exit ramp.
John McQuaid
As Pandemic Continues, Race for Covid-19 Therapeutics Heats Up October 15, 2021
On Monday, the drugmaker Merck and a partner, Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, announced they were seeking emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for a new Covid-19 drug. If authorized, the drug, molnupiravir, would be the first antiviral pill to treat Covid-19.
Michael Schulson

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