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Dicamba herbicide

vendredi 6 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Monsanto's herbicide dicamba is now made by Bayer, but it still has the same problem: when sprayed in warm weather (such as in June), it can vaporize and spread to other fields where it kills the crops.

Mass shootings and misogyny

vendredi 6 juillet 2018 à 02:00

More than half of mass shootings are motivated by misogyny.

I am not surprised that many of them showed signs that led people to wonder if they were dangerous. Nonetheless, the percentage of misogynists that actually become dangerous is tiny, and it is hard to predict who is part of that percentage.

Treating immigrants as slaves

vendredi 6 juillet 2018 à 02:00

There is a systematic problem with immigrants in the US, those who are jailed. Thugs keep treating them as slaves.

Water privatization

vendredi 6 juillet 2018 à 02:00

Privatizing Puerto Rico's water is likely to raise the price by 60%. Given how poor the island is now, many will be without water.

Antibiotic resistance in meat

vendredi 6 juillet 2018 à 02:00

As of 2015, most of the bacteria in most of the meat samples from US supermarkets were resistant to some antibiotics.