A genetically modified pig's kidney has been transplanted into a human who suffered from kidney failure.

Robert Reich: Tracing Boeing's frequency of bad manufacturing and maintenance to its use of top-down management which prioritizes increased profit over all other goals.

*Rat fur, arsenic and copper: the dangerous ingredients lacing US prison water.*

This joins many other cruel and gratuitous forms of punishment, including solitary confinement which is a form of torture.

*UN [high commissioner for human rights] says Israeli restrictions on Gaza food aid may constitute a war crime,*

because *Israeli restrictions on the entry of aid may amount to "starvation as a method of war."*

Don't panda to China's "panda diplomacy" — China uses these cute-seeming animals to extract diplomatic concessions that have real importance.

I've posted about this before.

China doesn't give or sell pandas, it only lends them for a limited time, and any offspring belong to China. So China can demand concessions from countries that have pandas and don't want to relinquish them.

Oddly enough, Taiwan has some pandas which it actually owns. If Taiwan can produce some baby pandas, it could undermine China's panda diplomacy.