https://substack.fixthenews.com/p/355-clean-air-meningitis-leopardus
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This week’s top stories
* Global meningitis is in retreat
* A new wild cat species has been identified for the first time in over a
century
* Your brain isn’t one organ, it’s two, stitched together in the womb 🤯
* The world’s smallest CT scanner now fits in one hand
* Archaeologists have found a Chimu royal tomb in Peru that centuries of
looters somehow missed
* The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency (UNFPA) has helped
deliver 41.7 million safer births since 2008
* In Nigeria, a national initiative has cut maternal deaths by 17% in the
country’s highest-burden areas
* Norway has created its largest marine protected area, covering 1,848 km² of
coral reefs, sponge gardens and fish nurseries
* The global population of greater one-horned rhinos has hit a record 4,075
* Rwanda has connected 85.4% of households to electricity, up from 64.5% five
years ago
* Vietnam has created a reserve for one of the world’s rarest primates
* China has finished phasing out ozone-depleting HCFCs from its solvent
industry
* China’s clean-air campaign has cut Beijing’s smog by 70% in a decade, and cut
heavily polluted days from 58 a year to just one
* Cleaner air makes kids smarter (sound familiar?)
* Migrants sent almost twice as much money home last year as they did a decade
ago
* A donated spy satellite mirror is now hunting dark energy from orbit
* Self-driving cars are dramatically safer than human drivers, not just
marginally
* An aircraft just flew across a continent with nobody actually flying it"
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
