The number of people living in slavery today is estimated at 50 million, including 10 million who have been forced into slavery (including involuntary marriage) in the past five years.

The Ukrainian operators of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have shut down the last operating reactor there, as a safety measure.

Is this actually an improvement in safety? I have doubts.

While one reactor was operating, the plant had three options for obtaining the electricity needed to prevent meltdowns in the shut-down reactors: electricity generated by the one operating reactor, electricity obtained by cable from a distance, and the diesel backup generators.

With all reactors shut down, the first option is gone, and the other two are no more reliable than before.

*To Win in November, Democrats Must Listen to Citizen Groups.*

*Princeton University is now [gratis] for families making under $100,000.*

The article said "free", but I've decided to use that word only in regard to freedom, not in regard to price.

An inexpensive new malaria vaccine is reportedly 80% effective in preventing malaria.

Although it is comparatively inexpensive, 200 million doses will still cost 2 billion dollars to make and administer in Africa.

Malaria can't continue to exist in a mosquito for longer than a mosquito's short life span. If we can prevent it in humans, we can get rid of it entirely — if we can overcome vaccine denialism. There is a lot of vagueness in "80% protective," so I don't know whether this vaccine could eventually eradicate malaria over time. Perhaps in combination with modern genetic engineering that can greatly reduce the mosquito population in an area.