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Medical care in India

jeudi 27 septembre 2018 à 02:00

India's government offers gratis medical care for all the poor.

I hope it includes the most effective forms of birth control.

Hong Kong independence party

jeudi 27 septembre 2018 à 02:00

China has banned the Hong Kong independence party entirely.

China is stepping up its control and repression in Hong Kong by steps. Just a few years ago it banned individual candidates from the election for advocating independence.

As long as it faces no penalty for this, China can keep pushing.

Fleeing global heating

jeudi 27 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Thousands of Americans are moving to higher ground, fleeing from global heating.

In 30 years it will be hundreds of thousands.

Some decades later, it will be millions. We can't predict how many millions; the climate models don't allow for the methane that will be released by melting permafrost, since we don't know how much that will be.

Currently 30,000 households are being squeezed out.

Heating national parks

jeudi 27 septembre 2018 à 02:00

US national parks are heating up faster than most of the US. Some are forecast to suffer 9C of heating (16F) in this century. Today's local species will go extinct if they can't move elsewhere.

What is Glacier National Park if it doesn’t have glaciers anymore? To an environmentalist, it's a tragedy. To an extractivist, it's an opportunity for mining.

Hidden voice commands

jeudi 27 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Researchers have discovered how to hide voice commands in other audio, so that people cannot hear them, but Alexa and Siri can.