*Why We Must Beat Back Private Equity's Deadly Hold on Nursing Homes.*

We need a law to prohibit tying many companies together. Not solely via visible mergers, but also by having common owners.

Perhaps certain companies should be forbidden to have their stock owned by anyone but individuals.

In Australia, the rapid construction of renewable energy generation is substituting for fossil fuels and reducing greenhouse emissions.

Naturalists are breeding and releasing 11 species of Polynesian snails that were extinct in the wild, killed by an intrusive predator snail that humans had brought, hoping it would wipe out another invasive snail.

The technique of releasing an intrusive predator to control a pest species has often backfired in this way. Cane toads in Australia are a prominent example.

I wonder if robots could be programmed to efficiently find and kill the two intrusive species of snails. It might be easy to distinguish them from all the other species actually present in a given island, making the robots reliable there even if they might not be reliable elsewhere.

Unlike intrusive life forms, robots are easy to prevent from becoming a pest. They don't reproduce, and they need the help of humans to recharge.

Florida Republicans have another idea for attacking voting rights: attacking the organizations that help people in disprivileged groups register to vote.

(satire) *Promising Report Finds Great Pacific Garbage Patch Could Support Full-Scale Ground War By 2040.*