Research found that children have higher IQs and fewer behavior problems if they grew up in neighborhoods with more green spaces. The study controlled for family income.

Guber and Lyft are taking advantage of workers' desperation to get work even for low wages, but they don't plan to make a profit this way. They are losing money hoping for the driverless cars that would enable them to fire all those workers.

It would be a good thing to abolish these giant parasites, but that alone won't give workers a decent life.

The article gives further interesting economic analysis of the situation.

China is giving several candidate Covid-19 vaccines to workers who face exposure in their work.

There is a good side to this and a bad side, but if these candidates have passed the test for safety, I suppose those people have little to lose by trying them.

Even moderate levels of air pollution (below EU limits) damage babies' future respiratory capacity.

German doctors say that Alexei Navalny was probably poisoned, and it looks like nerve agent — perhaps the same one used to poison the Skripals.